Frost Mage

[Ghallo]

I run 3x arcane mage for my heroic group and 4x mage for PvP group. I've run several different configurations of arcane and for me I just spam arcane blast until the boss is dead. If you don't do enough dps total in the group that may not be an option but i would be willing to be /castsequence is hurting your dps.

Casting arcane missiles will hurt your dps unless you proc missile barrage.

you could try something like
/cast [mod:shift] arcane missiles; arcane blast (not sure on syntax)
that way spamming that button will spam arcane blast and basically you hold your mod key and press button to cast arcane missiles and clear your arcane blast buff.

When I ran this type of setup on my arcane mage i used mod key as kind of a mana throttle. If my mage had less mana % then the boss had health % i started cating arcane missiles every 4th arcane blast / missile barrage proc etc.

My 3 mages can kill most heroic bosses just spamming arcane blast and not run out of mana. Granted they have 24k mana and do 6k-8k dps.

Edit: I just thought I'd point out that my mages have absolutely no raid gear, all their gear is heroic / triumph gear.

Could you provide a link to your Armory? I'd love to see your spec/gear so I can figure out the upgrade path!

[genocyde]

Could you provide a link to your Armory? I'd love to see your spec/gear so I can figure out the upgrade path!

Sure thing.

My Mages:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...am&n=Blaztwave
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...am&n=Fireblazt
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...ream&n=Mirrorz
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...am&n=Pyroblazt

You'll have to be a little careful inspecting me as I've started to run more and more PvP gear as I get it.

For arcane PvE look for spellpower & haste over all other stats. In my best gearset i'm around 6-700 haste with 0 raid gear. The PvP cloak is one of the best back pieces you can get still sadly.

[genocyde]

Oh, and btw my arcane spec on armory is a PvP spec atm. I was testing out fire a little too.
This is the arcane DPS spec that I run in PvE: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#ofxVcz0czxGuGxedZbIc0k Theres a few points in there that are movable for a bit more single target DPS or AoE dps.