LF Frost themed staff for Mogging.

Since I am a frost mage, I would like to reflect this with my gear when 4.3 hits. Obviously, the best staff for this would be the Frost Lord scythe, but I didn't get it this summer, so I don't have access to it for now. Anyone have any other ideas? I'm thinking maybe the one that drops off Archimonde or the one from Hodir.

For reference, my gear is going to be:
Glacial Robe
Glacial Waistband
Glacial Slippers
Firelord's Mantle
Firelord's Hood
Deathchill Cloak
http://www.wowhead.com/compare?items=43583:43585:43584:60246:60243:40489
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Greatstaff of the Nexus?
It is a very nice looking staff for Blue/Frost themed sets.
The scythe staff thing from the boss from the fire festival?

If you don't have it obv. wouldn't help you for next patch, but that's my best bet.
Ethereum Life-Staff from High Astromancer Solarian in Tempest Keep

Ethereum Life-Staff from High Astromancer Solarian in Tempest Keep

that's what i thought the moment i saw the topic
Frostscythe of Lord Ahune

Done.

Ethereum Life-Staff from High Astromancer Solarian in Tempest Keep

that's what i thought the moment i saw the topic

Same.

Frostscythe of Lord Ahune

Done.

Yeah, I'd love to have that staff, but like I said, I didn't get it this summer so I don't have access to it arm. :-)

Hadn't thought of the Greatstaff though, thanks to those that recommended it! I'll try for the Life-Staff as well.
Grand Magister's Staff of Torrents isn't a bad one either.

Mage PVP

What spec is the best for my level for pvp?
Any spec really. You're going to get rocked until you can get ice barrier.

low level pvp sucks.
I remember having to deal with arcane mages back then was infuriating. Arcane barrage is insanely powerful and cheesy.
Wait until 49. Go fire.

Let lulz ensue.

Best action bars for mages?

Not sure if this one belongs in the UI section (IMO it belongs here because we mages tend to use a lot of skills and shift more), but what do you think is the best action bar addon that we mages can get?
Bartender or Dominos. Try both see what you like better. But yea the question is not specific to mages.
I like Bartender personally. It's pretty nice.
Most of your stuff should be key-bound so as long as the addon works and lets you customize the action bars, who cares.... I've just always used Bartender, and it's built into Lui interface which I am currently using out of laziness.
Used Bartender4 for a while. After one patch it didn't get updated for a week and there were bugs, so I switched to Dominos. Hardly noticed any difference.
I'd use whichever updates faster after major patches.

Help identifying headgear

i remember as i was levelling this mage, i equipped this headgear which was sort of a halo of jewels circling on top of my head. but i can't for the life of me remember what it's called..please post if you do know as i would like to transmog that piece
Circle of Flame? (Check the wowhead screenshots)
Are you looking for Tourmaline Crown? I'm currently using that as my transmog head piece and it sounds like what you're looking for.
http://www.wowhead.com/item=31272

BoE

http://www.wowhead.com/item=31272

BoE

Also quite rare - the Tourmaline Crown looks identical and is from a quest line in BC so costs nothing and is easily solo'd.
the piece i had was the crown of endless knowledge. but its the same design as the tourmaline crown so im gonna go do that quest for it.

thanks very much to you all.

by the way, since im trying to look for gear to transmog, i might as well ask about other slots. i remember when i was around level 60 or 70, my gear was such that i didnt look like a mage, more like a fashionista. i remember the chestgear was like a blue long sleeve shirt which wasn't a robe and that's important cause it doesn't drop down to my ankles and cover my trousers.

so if anyone has any suggestions on chestgear that isnt a robe and legpiece that looks like skinny jeans on the toon, please post it here.

ps. if you know of shouldergear that doesnt look like it belongs to WWF's legion of doom, something small, almost non-existent, please share as well.
ok. googled a little and found www.worldofwardrobes.net is a great place to DIY random pieces of gear

low level fun?

so, what spec do you guys find the most fun at these levels?
I would also like to know this : ),
Probably Frost. It just gets a lot of great utility earlier than both of the other specs.
At my lvl I like arcane for the instant AB on a 4 sec cd helps alot. I was fire at the start but find the extra instant cast spell helps out. But as you lvl up I'd say frost
I've rather liked frost so far. This is my main as I'm just coming back after a 2 year hiatus and decided to reroll so I wouldn't be the noob that doesn't know his class.

I like frostbolt. Pew Pew Pew you're dead before you touch me. I open with the pet's AOE Frost spell that freezes them so I can get the +crit multiplier. Then spam frostbolt. At this level I don't run out of mana.

I have 0 BOA's.

Edit: wrong you're :/

Edit #2: Just realized we're all humans. waka waka.
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Not sure what you mean here but I said frost to lvl up. I'm not going any higher and arcane seems to hit hard. I like having the instant AB on a 4 sec cd. I can open with Fireball, Ab, and fireblast and take 500-700 hp off someone real quick and the short cd on AB give me one more If i need it. My fireball is a 1.2 sec cast and frostbolt is 1 sec cast time
if you're talking pvp, i pretty much got owned as all specs, until level 69


for pve/dungeons, fire is fun as hell
If you have a lot of heirlooms, going arcane and one shotting even other BoA players at around the first few brackets is incredibely sick and twisted but hilarious at the same time. Although even mediocre rogues will demolish you until you get more resilience and then only good ones will be able to actually put up a fight. Frost is a lot of fun once you get deep freeze.
twinking a mage you want to be arcane. you destroy people with abar
Yeah at low lvs arcane for sure. Especially if you like your name at the top of the recount.
I really enjoyed leveling in fire, kiting mobs while scorching is too much fun.
fire :D
Having leveled a mage to 74 so far... I started off as an Arcane, moved to Fire and after spending a brief time away from playing my mage Went back ast Arcane...

and I have to say... if you have full BoA's and like seeing your name at the top of the recount list for damage... Arcane is the way to go...
Now, you may get beaten in Trash mob DPS or AoE.. but on Single target boss fights... you dominate the damage boards...

Just an example: I was in Utgard Keep and with a combination of Arcane Power, Mirror Images, Mana Gem, Blood Lust and Arcane Blast I hit 4.8k DPS on a boss, the next highest DPS wass a warrior who did 1.2k DPS...

Its really good fun...
just be sure not to pull aggro...
you'll die super fast if you do.

Arcane Mage DPS Help

Anything I should with my gear for better DPS?

Thanks in advance.
those are some strange gems you have.

prismatic: brilliant inferno ruby
blue: veiled demonseye
yellow: artful ember topaz

but your chest, just put 2 brilliant inferno ruby. reason is mathematical.

enchant power torrent on your weapon

reforge.
hit to 1742
haste to 1768
after that, everything else mastery.
crit is what you reforge out of first.
you can use programs like rawr to optimise for you.
Replace the Bottled Wishes with simply anything else. It is only useful for Heroic Spine. Any other trinket from FL or DS would be better for you.

Use the Glyph of Arcane Power.

Regem so that you are only using Brilliant red (int), artful orange (int/mastery), and veiled purple (int/hit) gems. Get rid of the jagged green, nightmare tear, and the level 80 gems. The potent orange is okay... but artful is better.

Reforge to adjust your hit to 17%... anything over that is wasted.

Reforge out of haste and into mastery (or crit). You want aim to get your haste rating down to 1768 (1268 once you get t13). This haste value is the amount of haste that will put your AB cast down to 1 second during hero/timewarp in a raid.

Enchant your weapon with power torrent.

How is this possible?

I've been playing fire all patch and have been doing fairly decently, but I thought I'd switch over to arcane just to check out my deeps. I reforged everything for mastery but didn't bother to re-gem anything, just seeing as how I wanted to get an idea of how much dps I could pull as arcane.

On my burn phase (against raid dummy) I could only muster out 28k dps? (Without timewarp)
How is that possible? Does that sound accurate to you guys? I thought I was pulling that much dps before DS came out. Could someone please look over my reforges and tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Try changing your glyphs