I've updated the OP to include the few logical choices for talent specs as it stands on the PTR/in beta. If I missed something or people would like me to include additional choices, please reply below.

On the first page on all of the 3 raiding talent builds you specced 2/2 ice shards.

Isn't 1 point enough, because we do not need the full range for ice lance since frostbolt does not have 40yards range?

I suggest
WoW Talent Calculator - Sigrie
with the option to move 2 points from enduring winter to permafrost.
The one point in early frost can also put somewhere else if haste is too high.

The following is extracted from simulationcraft header files (and those are extracted from game files). This should be every mage spell with a coefficient other than zero or one. There may be values in here which are not actually active in the game.

These are from build 13131

Spell	Coef	Tick ms
Arcane Barrage	0.765
Arcane Blast	1.057
Arcane Explosion	0.143
Arcane Missiles	0.234
Blast Wave	0.143
Blizzard	0.119
Blizzard	0.095
Combustion	0.429
Cone of Cold	0.214
Deep Freeze	2.572
Dragon's Breath	0.193
Fire Blast	0.429
Fireball	1.124
Flame Orb	0.134
Flamestrike	0.146
Flamestrike	0.061	2000
Flashburn	2.5
Freeze	0.029
Frost Nova	0.193
Frostbolt	0.857
Frostburn	2.5
Frostfire Bolt	0.977
Frostfire Bolt	0.00733	3000
Ice Lance	0.378
Living Bomb	0.233	3000
Living Bomb	0.233
Mana Adept	1.5	1000
Pyroblast	1.25
Pyroblast	0.087	3000
Pyroblast!	1.305
Pyroblast!	0.087	3000
Scorch	0.539
Waterbolt	0.833

I have no idea what the tick speed for Mana Adept means.

Source for this? I skimmed back through this thread but I'm probably missing it. How much does the FFB rate go up when considering Piercing Chill and multiple targets? My point is that Ignite could end up as an encounter-specific talent for Frost, especially if the 2.25 FFBs per minute you mention is only on a single target.

Yes, the 2 points was more for the add/trash control with blizzard. One could argue that max range Ice Lance might be a slight DPS increase on very high mobility fights.

Well the build as linked has 5 pts in efficiency talents and that is almost undoubtedly too many. Frost mages have no real way of converting excess mana into damage so being hyper mana efficient probably doesn't impact the meters at all. And note if you move points out of EW to permafrost (as you suggest) and move points out of Early Frost (as you also suggest might happen depending on haste) then you are back to one of my first two builds on the first post. There isn't that much difference between them, certainly as measured on the damage meters.

I add a slight variation of your build to the first post as sort of a throw back to old school, take-every-DPS-talent-no-matter-how-small line of thinking. Thanks for the feedback. Perhaps there is slightly more room for disagreement about what to spec for frost than I first anticipated and that is a good thing.

Can we talk about Frostfire Bolt as the main nuke for a deep Frost PVE build?

The only thing I can see keeping it from being a top contender is that Brain Freeze no longer procs from it. It's still Beta and might very easily be reverted.

The advantages are a bigger base nuke with a larger coefficient and Ignite in a build that has a very high crit chance, especially at lower gear levels.

Blizzard and beta-testers have taken steps several times to prevent this from actually being viable. This means that even if a way was found to make FFB viable as primary nuke for Frost, via unforeseen or unplanned mechanic interaction, Blizzard would alter said mechanics to intentionally break its viability again.

The reason for this comes back to the subjective argument, "Should Frostbolt be the main (and only) Primary Nuke for the Frost tree?" Currently, Blizzard says the answer is yes. FFB still has situational, compelling uses for Frost (Opening snare, Brain Freeze procs) - but that's it. Fire appears to be the only tree where Blizzard is allowing FFB to be explored and used as a primary nuke replacement.

That doesn´t seem to be going on for fire either though. The FFB dot currently only stacks to a certain point for fire so even firemages who want to cast FFBs will also want to cast fireballs making it look like you want both glyphs for that kind of build.

But that belongs in the firethread, I just wanted to mention it in context to FFBs role for fire and frost.

I haven't seen discussion yet of whether high spell power and haste will ultimately lead to a flipping of priorities for Frostbolt and Ice Lance on FoF procs. In other words, since spell power benefit Frostbolt more than Ice Lance, during Bloodlust/IV hasted periods when Frostbolt casts approach the GCD, could consuming FoF buffs with Frostbolt yield higher DPS than using Ice Lance?

Frostbolt does not consume the FoF effect nor is it influenced by it. FoF only works for DF and IL.

Then neither wowhead nor the talent calculator at wowtal is up-to-date.

Fingers of Frost