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Honestly, the best advice to a new mage right now is switch to frost. Everything about leveling is easier as frost: more CC, better burst dmg, better AOE dmg, better shield, pet for additional CC. Fire is like playing on Nightmare difficult. Don't beat yourself up - go frost and enjoying actually fe...

I played Frost/Fire in Legion. Began BFA as frost for leveling. Got bored at 120 and switched to fire. I was shocked how weak the spec seemed compared to frost, especially vs. trash. As frost I could pull 10+ mobs, control them with Blizz/Ice Nova and burn them down with orb/comet storm. Easy. As fi...

My sims also showed Lonely Winter performing better than Bone Chilling. Playing with the pet is also awkward; maybe to level up but in raid/pvp content LW seems the better choice. I also had GS as the superior t7 talent when I switched to the helm instead of bracers. This added a huge increase in ov...

My sims are showing the Archmage ring + bracers as slightly ahead of bracers + Koralon's for both ST and AOE fights, but by very little. For me the extra instants from PF's in combination with the new tier 1 talent make archmage superior to Koralon's for pre-patch. PF also helps in world PVP quite a...