Looking at alt character builds...

[Rinnhart]

Am I missing something, or is the ice tree just better than the fire tree, period?

PVP, ice is handsdown better unless you're OtherGuy and completely insane (Scorch, for all the wins!).

PVE, fire has a few advantages over frost, notably the non-binary resists and generally greater benefit from + damage (pyroblast is getting a huge boost next patch), range, and a lack of reliance upon a debuff to which monsters are commonly immune.

Frost still does it's world ruining, but fire has style.

Arcane is simply a must.

EDIT> Looking at the stats, rogues actually don't get another skill after 34... EVER. The other classes don't plateau like this gameplay wise, do they?

Mages do, as a matter of fact.

I'm looking at drainlife warlocks. Could be fun, could be boring as all hell waiting for DoT to finish something off...

Wand!

Affliction warlocks can be fun, but, while efficient, they do grind quite a bit slower than other classes. Spice it up with half-zone pulls.

How are ranged Hunters in the DPS department?
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They are definitive ranged dps, paragons of ranged dps, the mold from which all other ranged DPS were wrought. If I could get away with it, I'd bring 1 warrior, 5 paladins, 8 priests, 1 druid, and 25 hunters to raids.