WARNING!
WHAT I AM GOING TO TELL YOU IN THIS POST SINT ABOUT ADDONES , IT IS ABOUT HOW TO BECOME THE GREATEST MAGE IN WOW!
Important:I'm going to mark with RED the fire spells and with BLUE the ice ones!
So , I will start by telling you that you can have the coolest gear as a mage in World of Warcraft , but , if you don't have the good spec , you SUCK!
My spec and the most powerfule one is called Frostfire spec and it contains both fire and frost!
The idea is that your Frostfire Bolt will be the best spell in your Spellbook!
You will use Frost just for Icy Veins and the things he gives , such as the Critical Hit Chance with the Frost spells , their damage , the mana cost of all your spells and last , but not least , the range , which isn't very usefulle in PvE , but helps at bosses such as Anub'Reckal.
The Fire will have the biggest avarage of talent points because this specs's origin is from Fire!
The Fire spec MUST NOT CONTAIN Dragon's Breath and Blast Wave because are unusefulle in raids because you CAN'T desorientate or push the elites from Raids(actually , PvE is defined by raids , so lets be serious , why do we need those spells?!).
The second hint is NOT TO USE the Fire talents which are giving you that short sprint and the spell reflection , because it is pointless to do this!
The single Fire talents that gives a spell is Pyroblast and Living Bomb because these are worfing the points!
You NEED to have Hot Streak at all costs!
Also , use the talents who empower your Fire spells!
After you finished your talent points with this spec , you need to know just a simple easy tact:use the spells like this ------>Sorch(you should have the Improved Sruch talent at the maximmum rank)----->Living Bomb ----->Frostfire Bolt x 3 and again!
Use Pyroblast just when you have Hot Streak!
Fire Blast is just for emergencies or for the last health points of the mob/elite/boss!
Fire Ball is useless!
When you fight with a boss , stay in a single place and as close as possible , for hitting him all the time! Don't stay close when he makes spells that damage you because you have low life...every mage has(not more tha 20k health)!
I hope you won't waste your time checking ALL the World of Warcraft sites and just read this page!
I don't care very much about PvP , but ill tell you in general the ideal spec!
It is based on Arcane and contains a little bit of Frost too , anyway , way more less than at the PvE spec.
From the Arcane , you need especially the stats and the spells , because all of them are good for PvP!
Frost is for his all-spell empowers!
Always start the battle with Slow , having Mind Presence buff on you!
Use Arcane Barrage/Arcane Blast and Mirror Image ! Often , use Arcane Missles!
Well...this is pretty much all about the secrets of the mage specs!
Don't forget to buy the perfect Glyphs !
For fire , Glyph of Improved Sorch , Glyph of Molten Armor and Glyoh of Frostfire!
For arcane , just use the Mirror Image Glyph!