Noobish Questions (updated frequently)

[Skandranon]

2) I'm making a Mage alt dedicated to lvl 29 PvP in the gulch. I'm planning on speccing fire with:
5 impact
5 improved fire blast
2 flamethrowing
3 burning soul

This gives me 5 points to work with, and I'm not sure where I should put them.
-I can dump 5 into improved scorch, but that doesn't seem particularly useful in pvp.
-Incinerate/Improved flamestrike would really emphasize the damage point.
-I could put 5 into fireball and 1 into pyroblast, shaving one off of maybe flame throwing or burning soul, but I don't see the 6 second cast being useful in pvp.
-I could put the 5 into improved chill in the ice tree.
-I could also put the 5 into faster icebolt for a 1 second rank 1 cast (MY flag!).
-Points could be shaved off of burning soul for winter's chill or improved frost nova if I do split fire/ice.

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If you desperately want to spec fire, put five points in Ignite and move the five Improved Fire Blast points to Improved Arcane Missiles. Improved Fire Blast just isn't enough return for five talent points and skipping Ignite misses out on the largest PvP damage enhancer in the tree. Yes, you will crit - you'll find it hard to kill people without them, actually - and you need to get the most out of them.

In my opinion, however, you get more out of a primarily Arcane build in PvP. Level 29 isn't high enough to get Presence of Mind, but you can get Improved Arcane Missiles and Improved Arcane Explosion along with Improved Counterspell. If I were to PvP in the 29 bracket, I'd spec like this:

5 Improved Arcane Missiles
5 Arcane Focus
5 Improved Arcane Explosion
2 Improved Counterspell
2 Improved Mana Shield

and one throwaway point that might as well go to Evocation: it's not as directly useful in PvP as it is in PvE, but there's really no other useful place to drop that point.