Frost vs Fire mages

[Suribusi]

What works best for PvP?



Frost or Fire?

On my 2nd crew I'm doing AVs at level 60, and I'm rolling with a full fire spec. This has been the most fun to play in AVs, and is the most powerful multi-target burst damage that a mage can get.

The problem is that "What works best for PvP" for a multiboxing mage crew cannot be defined (in my opinion). Depending on what types of PvP you want to focus on, your spec choice may change with it:
AVs -> Full fire, everything is chaotic. You don't have to worry too much about survivability depending on how you want to play it. Also horde has an additional benefit with small flag rooms in their towers. So the alliance all stand inside the little room, while you just run in and pop Dragons Breath and Blast Wave, if anyone else is standing spam Arcane Explosion.
All BGs -> Arcane/fire (PoM/pyro) or Arcane/Frost, Either of these would be well rounded. I would probably go with arcane/frost
WSG -> Arcane/Frost. It might actually be beneficial here to have 1 mage get Slow (41 point arcane talent) for keeping runners inside your insta-spell range so you can spam them with ice lance/fire blast
World PvP -> Arcane/Frost
Arenas -> ??? I have no experience here. I would guess Arcane/Fire (pom/pyro) so hopefully you can make it a 4v5 fight really quickly.

Of course YMMV with your playstyle and skill. I am very seasoned with a mage/priest setup and I do it rather effectively in World PvP and BGs. I would imagine I would get nothing but raped in the arenas 8o

-S