1) Does not.
2) Yes.
3) Yes. Functionally the procs appear to be on a one-roll system, such that if both are maxed they will always both proc.
4) Yes. Caveat is even moten armor procs burn charges right now, which I hope can be added as an exception since it's a waste of a charge.

Please read the thread you're replying to. This has been covered. FoF will proc just fine on bosses, and is in fact the intention of the talent. It (and Frostbite) also proc on Glyphed Frostbolts.

Functionally, read "your chill effects" do something as "your spells that under normal circumstances against a normal mob cause a chill effect" do something. Frostbite procs on bosses, too, you just get an Immune popup and it fails to "stick". Since FoF sticks to YOU, not the boss, it procs and works.

PTR is now on build 8962, however, Flamestrike still shows as a 3 second cast in the tooltip. I can't look in combat log because combat log isn't recording anything.

Firestarter -is- working, but it doesn't give you any buff to indicate it, much like Fiery Payback.

It seems like spells (if you look closely those are spells, not items) that use ink as a reagent are more likely to be Inscription than Enchanting.

And on the topic of Inscription being more powerful than other professions, in addition to that 40 spellpower you get another glyph, which may seal the deal depending on what the final glyph lineup looks like.

Since blizz is trying to encourage more dynamic play I'd personally like to see them make the damage buff from arcane blast lower and the mana increase less severe...

then make arcane barrage give you a small damage buff for arcane blast for a short time..

and finally extend the duration of the AB debuff

doing this will encourage weaving arcane barrage into AB rotations for it's damage buff

the longer debuff timer allows us to actually weave spells such as arcane barrage and missile barrage procs into AB without losing the debuff.

The dynamic play blizz wants is now there and can lead to viable dps rotations once blizz sorts out the numbers.

If they would do this I'd be very happy.

If focus magic stacks with other crit talents, we may be back to stacking class, no? (Since it's 1 mage for 1 buff) At the very least, this needs to be taken into account.

One issue I havent seen brought up much is the good ol' 'Playing with Fire'. Sure, it gives 3% dmg, but its still feels like a badly balanced talent. I dont know what to do with it, maybe a 2pointer: 4% dmg, 2% spelldmg taken? Or 3% dmg/1%taken etc. Just something. Right now its a talent you feel you have to take in the fire tree, but also feel a bit awkward about having.
I can understand the concept, its the glass cannon materialized through a talent, but the reward/risk-ratio seems wrong.
Do people feel its a good enough talent?

It could be 3% dmg/9% dmg taken and I would still take Playing With Fire.

Glyph Mastery is no longer in the spell database.

The shoulder enchants from Inscription are comparable to other profession perks - except for the insanity that is Leatherworker's Fur Lining (assuming Leatherworkers keep their epic BoP leg armor enchants).

Yes, I kinda said that, we will take it because it min-max out dps. That wasnt the point however.
Its somewhat like the frostbolt glyph, Its a dmg gain, thus we take it. But it doesn't necessarily make it good (and since we will arguably be balanced after having these dmg gains, its not like you get some craazy dmg buff you wouldnt have got elsewhere :P)

I notice that there's already a thread complaining about the single roll on Frostbite + Fingers of Frost on the beta forums. I imagine Blizzard made this change as a quick and dirty way of fixing the "Frostbite consumes a charge of Fof" bug. Whatever the reason, I hope they don't listen to complainers and keep it the way it is. It's great. It's much better this way, once you get used to it and realize how obscenely often your Frostbite is broken instantly. Knowing you *always* have that back-up is very useful -- and knowing that when your frostbite DOES NOT get broken that you can spend the entire 4 seconds running away instead of spamming ice lance is priceless.

Rogue CloS's your Frostbite, you wait 5 seconds and hit him with Deep Freeze. Good times. I encourage anyone who's not in love with the idea to do some Batttlegrounds and try it out for a bit. You'll come to love it like I do. I made a post about it here: World of Warcraft (English) Forums -> [Feedback] Fingers of Frost

At any rate, another brilliant consequence of this change is that by putting ONE point into Imp Blizzard, you can basically get a permanant +50% crit when AoEing. It would be virtually impossible to let a full Cast of Blizzard go on more than one mob and not have a Fingers of Frost proc at some point. We're talking 15% per mob per wave (since its linked to frostbite). So basically each Blizzard gets that +50% except the initial cast.

Request for testing: If someone has time, try to determine if the +50% crit from FoF kicks in instantly after a proc during mid-blizzard (like the old +30% to crit from clearcasting on Arcane missiles) or if you actually have to have the buff when you start the cast for it to work.

I would propose an even more radical change. Allow it to benefit from Improved/Empowered Frostbolt/Fireball. You can't get *both* empowered talents, but you could get both improved talents. That might be a bit much, so maybe just the 2 improved talents. That gives it a 2 second cast time with a 3 second coeffecient. That lets it scale slightly faster than Fireball (with empowered talent) but not too much faster and with a lower base damage.

That might make it too good, I suppose, but we're sort of stuck in a position where the spell is either going to be too good or too bad. Either its a mages primary raid dps spell or it's useless. There's very little room for middle ground with a spell like that. I'd rather see it slightly too good than totally unused.