09-15-2005, 04:38 PM
I am agreeing with Skan on many things here. I would just like to expand on the PoM topic here: It can be very useful with a frost build, to make sure that you can get a frostbolt off before Frost Nova breaks. But, with PoM, you'd have to wait for the universal cooldown before hitting the cone of cold part of the usual frost nova-frostbolt-cone of cold burst damage combo, and the frost bolt itself may break the frost nova in that time. Wheras if you do the full casting time of Frostbolt, the universal cooldown is over by the time it's done casting, and you can time a cone of cold to hit at exactly the same time as the frostbolt, thus giving both of them the Shatter bonus. (Which is a very powerful thing. With a hilariously well equipped mage (lots of +spell damage), I've seen that three-spell combo do over 3,000 damage.)