Best Mage build?

Recently rolled a mage which is now lvl 10. Trying to decide what build to follow. I was thinking about one of these:

Arcane/Frost
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/talents/mage/talents.html?005050510200 0000000000000000005050231 020501351
18/0/33

Fire/Frost
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/talents/mage/talents.html?000000000000 0005550200300001005050231 320501300
0/21/30

Arcane/Fire
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/talents/mage/talents.html?005052512201 4315550221000000000000000 000000000
31/20/0

Drop the 2 from Dampen (crap) and put it in Improved Sheep (Arcane Focus) and go Arc/Fire.

I like POM with frost, instant casting a 1500 crit frost bolt + CoC is ownage.

21 Arcane 30 Frost

Presence of mind and ice block.

21 Arcane 30 Frost

Presence of mind and ice block.

Thats my spec also, without pom though.
Ill be respeccin soon to include POM for more PvP utility. I used to run a split arc/fire crit build but had to respec to ice for BWL. Now that AQ isnt so fire resistant, Id like to go back to an arc/fire build but i think ive become addicted to iceblock :)

I was thinking of maybe going Arc/Fire then respeccing to Arc/Frost at later lvl.

for leveling i would definately go with imp arc missiles or imp fireball as your first talents. I think i would go imp arc missiles(5) first then move over to the fire side for imp fireball, then back over to the arc side for iae.. after that, cant remember :)

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Drop the 2 from Dampen (crap) and put it in Improved Sheep (Arcane Focus) and go Arc/Fire.

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- D

I'm fire/arcane but that's not one of your selections. I enjoy my build alot.

My mage was 30/21 fire/arcane. Unless you're gonna grind with blizzard, I'd go some kind of fire/arcane build. When you get some more +dmg/trinkets then hop back over to arcane/ice or if you like the survivability of ice for pvp types maybe think about that. For grinding though, I liked the burst dmg and quick killing of fire.

edit: I like your arcane/fire build. Just like others have said you can use those 2 points in dampen magic in decrease in resistances to overcome any chance of getting a resisted poly.

I'm fire/arcane but that's not one of your selections. I enjoy my build alot.
Lots of our mages are like 30/21 Frost/Arcane though... yah?

--Sean

My current build for pvp, will repsec for MC/BWL soon....

"Elemental" Build
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Frost Talents (30 points)
# Permafrost - 5/5 points
# Winter's Chill - 3/3 points
# Improved Frost Nova - 2/2 points
# Ice Shards - 5/5 points
# Improved Blizzard - 2/3 points
# Cold Snap - 1/1 point
# Piercing Ice - 3/3 points
# Shatter - 5/5 points
# Improved Cone of Cold - 3/3 points
# Ice Block - 1/1 point

Fire Talents (21 points)
# Impact - 5/5 points
# Ignite - 5/5 points
# Flame Throwing - 2/2 points
# Improved Flamestrike - 3/3 points
# Incinerate - 2/2 points
# Improved Scorch - 3/5 points
# Blast Wave - 1/1 point

I would never ever spec into elemental just not viable. Arcane has wayyy too many needed talents.

31 arcane/20 frost here
http://ctprofiles.net/4492

If I were to respec I might drop cold snap, it sort of loses its function without ice shield and ice block.

Lots of our mages are like 30/21 Frost/Arcane though... yah?

--Sean

Yah alot of our mages are 30/21 frost/arcane. Which is why I NEED to be fire/arcane just incase a suprise occurs and I am needed. It is ALL for the guild.

As I have seen people usually got Arc/Fire for PvE/grinding, and then switch over to Arc/Frost for PvP. I asked around why Arc at all and I guess there's a number of talents in there that increases efficiency of mana use and reducing channeling times.