Wondering about my mage

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Stupider Mage Tricks is what the second PvE video is called.  It is absolutely nuts.  And he has a number of PvP videos, showing off just how 'defensive' frost spec is.  (Which is to say that he three-shots people without Arcane Power.)
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Stupider Mage Tricks is great except some of the fights are no longer possible the way he shows them. Blizzard has fixed the Cloak of Fire which was clearly an off the wall bug. It took all of your +dmg gear and created an aoe effect when the cloak was used giving the full gear bonus. This should be +25 fire dmg/5 sec for 15sec. Faxmonkey with the bug is getting ~+750 fire dmg/5 sec for 15 sec inside of an iceblock (trinketed up). I believe it was fixed in 1.9.

Also Faxmonkey shows how the +dmg gearing progression favors frost mages in the endgame with many manufactured crits for 2x (talent). My estimate is that he has +250 - +300 dmg gear on with very nice stam. You really need to have epics to get these kinds of numbers (since they appear to be +dmg not +frost dmg....see his use of IAE). All of this +dmg gear really isn't a factor when you are leveling per the original poster. It's something you do when you are cap'ed at 60 and are trying to get better by gear alone.

The "naked" mage fight was one of the great demonstrations of "frost" mob control although I disagree with his use of the Blizzard in the fight because of its mana/dmg eff; but it is an instant frost effect so maybe in the situation.....I need to think about this more.