Originally Posted by Gukreb

Rudyrocky,

The best gems you could use based on your armory profile are in order

Don Julio's Heart - 14 dmg
Runed Ornate Ruby - 12 dmg
Runed Crimson Spinel - 6 dmg / 5 haste
Reckless Pyrestone - 10 Haste
Quick Lionseye - 6 dmg / 5 Crit
Potent Pyrestone - 9 Dmg

The question is how much gold do you have to spend on them, since most of these are a tad pricey.

Originally Posted by Pintofbrew

MagePryde: Like another poster I assumed wrongly you were in fact advocating 33/28/0 rather than the 28/33/0 you're specced currently. There is no logical reason behind speccing it, indeed, you're missing extremely fundamental talents of both hybrid arcane-fire and full-fire typical specs. Many of your talents could be swapped for a dramatic improvement, even at your low gear-level. Everything in Arcane (except perhaps Presence of Mind) past Arcane Concentration is worthless. It's debatable whether there's a point to Arcane Mind, given you're probably mashing Fireblast to improve on your dps. From fire you've missed out Imp. Scorch, which is needless to say, is between 12% and 15% more DPS on a boss-fight. You've missed Molten Fury, which is the whole point of Fire and Pyromania, as well as Empowered Fireball which is probably the most fundamental fire talent after Molten Fury.

Looking at the rest of your gear also indicates sloppy and hap-hazard itemization. You lack a glyph on your head, a patch on your pants and an enchantment on your shoulders. Your weapon, gloves, boots, chest and bracers are enchanted with junk that does not help you as much as it could/should. Your gemming is mostly random and your overall hit rate is bordering on deadly-low.

Priorities for you, are in order of importance:

Read well the first page of this thread. It is by no means wholly accurate, but for your playing bracket it is exceptionally well-written and informative. I don't say this to demean, I say this because I honestly think there's knowledge about being a raiding mage you are not taking note of. The fact that the first page may not reflect the exact, up-to-date conditions and situation of mage T6+ raiding is irrelevant to you.

Decide on a well-established spec for you to follow (at this point in your raiding, any pure spec will work fine. Full Frost (10+/0/42+), Full Fire (2/48/11 or 10/48/3), Arcane-Frost (40/0/21) or Arcane-Fire (eg.40/18/3) only selecting talents you understand will increase your DPS. Prismatic Cloak, Blazing Speed, Imp. Mana Shield and other junk does not make you output more. This is why we call them "fillers" and avoid them like plague. It's fine speccing them for when you can't get anything else, but it's not when you skip fundamental and obvious talents like Pyromania, Molten Fury, Imp. Scorch, Arcane Instability, Spell Power and Arcane Power.

Max your tailoring, get all BoP epic tailoring gear of either frost or fire/arcane. Get appropriate enchants/patches/glyphs for your gear. Tune your gems to be hit/dmg till you're hitcapped (124 frost 164 fire, both assuming you spec Elemental Precision and there's no excuse not to) and not random mish-mash of penetration, int etc.

Understand what you're lacking and hunt items to suit: You need Hit rate more than anything else to compete in a raid past trash, and you need a lot of it. Belt of Blasting, the gloves from Attumen, the Cenarion-rep Exhalted ring and the Scryer's revered Trinket will all make you much more effective at raiding.