We run patch 3.0.5 the patch numbers are out of sink with the Us so just think early BC talents.

At the moment my leveling is stopped because of the level 70 cap so AOE is not so important and I currently run as frost with a small touch of Arcane but not deep enough for anything special. My shaman often out DPS me and i think its because of my spell rotation which I only use Trinkets >> Icy viens then /Castrandom frostbolt, frostbolt, Ice lance. Maybe I just need to play with this spec a little more.

I speced on Fire last night on the target dummys going from Ice to fire over a 1 minute sustaned casting Ice=30627 Fire=35800 DPS so I was quite encouraged but when I tryed it on mobs Ice actually out preformed it ( /castrandom fireball, fireball, fireball, scorch, fireblast) it seemed that fireball was taking so much longer to cast than frostbolt). Both have similar gear, maybe it was just down to gear except the fire mage has silghtly better sholders the rest is the same as the ice mage. I could put it down to random crits but if the ice was critting more then DPS was still decent. Now I'm confused more than ever.

Also i have vistide many links to specs and some seem to spec in a very funny way. Like deep frost then also start specing from the middle of another tree down. Is this something from 3.0.9 or have the specs just been messed up?