PvP: Arcane or Fire?

[:1]Hello, this is my very first mage EVER! My main (Ret Paladin) is useless agains frost mages, so i know frost mages are good for pvp, now im rolling arcane cuz i used to think that arcane is good for pvp, but reading the forums i realize that fire is also good, so what do you think? What is best for pvp? Arcane or Fire? Also i read that fire will be a good spec for arenas soon in the next pach, so Fire or Frost? tell me about all the mage pvp so i can see what is the best for me. Thank you :)
Not Arcane. Arcane can hit like a truck, but the way interrupts are working this patch and LoS freaks, you will never get a spell off. You'll probably use your instant polymorph and get a stun off that and maybe two spells in, but standing and casting is a thing of the past now.

Fire depends on if you can play it right. You need to be able to manages DoT's, use Blink wisely, use your CC's right and hope that blazing speed procs.

Just do frost/arcane. Everyone else is doing it. It's annoying this expansion just as it was in the last one. You'll have 5 chances to spam Ice Lance on a frozen target (2 from pet, 1 from CoC, 1 from shield, 1 from Frost Nova) using only instant spells with your crit stacked so high and an occasional Deep Freeze, which just gives you more Ice Lance power.

Whilst other classes have to apply Curse of Exhaustion, Hamstring, Crippling Poison, you get to buff yourself so you crit more often and slow melee classes down.

I can't really say anything about Fire. 100% increases are not too common, so it definitely will be interesting to see some new flavors in the giant melting pot of PvP.
Thank you! Yeah, i gonna continue with my original option Arcane/Frost my name come from that, so i think i didn't mistake xD
Depends what you're doing. BGs, RBG,s or Arena? Arcane can be lulzy in 2's but outside of that not the greatest. I find Arcane can be awesome in random BG's though as people are less coordinated and well, bad. Find a bush to hide in and spam AB like nobody's buisness.

I PvP as Fire and it has more utility and damage potential then most people realize. You have to be aggressive though and often times in people faces to do your best damage/cc which can be risky in randoms because you are most likely not going to have the proper support you need. Also we can be very dependant on getting shatter crits to set up our big burst(Pyro crit, LB>Combustion>Impact to spread), unfortunately any target I'm usually on has other people constantly hitting it and breaks my freezes instantly before I get to use them.

A Fire/Frost team in 2's could be deadly though, with plenty of freezes and a DF to work with for lots of crits.

Good hunting.
Arcane for arenas sucks.
Arcane can be good for BG's, or RBGS.

Fire is already good currently, next season it's just getting buffed and will be very viable and legit.
If you're deciding between frost or fire, its a matter of playstyle.
You'll just have to decide between one, I find fire very versatile and able to adapt to a lot of situations and that is more fun then frost.
But..Just try both of them out at 85.




mage trees work like this

frost > arcane > fire > arcane > frost

back in the day, when you could put your talents anywhere, that was when speccing was the truth. now its all propaganda
get to 85, stack mastery, go arcane and lol at 70k arcane blasts
Frost.

IMO, Frost has great survivability out of Fire, and Arcane. Though, Arcane again, imo, is the 'true glass cannon'. Fire..I have PvE'd in but not PvP'd so I can't say much about it. I do plan on finding out what it is like though.