Frost mage!

[Kevin]

My level 60 frost mage's frost talents spec, with 2 talent points unassigned as yet:
Improved Frostbolt rank 5/5
Winter's Chill rank 3/3
Improved Frost Nova rank 2/2
Ice Shards rank 5/5
Arctic Reach rank 1/2--2/2 is good though
Piercing Ice rank 2/3--3/3 is good though
Shatter rank 5/5
Improved Blizzard rank 3/3
Frostbite rank 5/5--Because of this talent and shatter I kill with frost bolts only not infrequently.
Iceblock
Ice Barrier rank 1/1--I do not like this talent.  If and when I respec, I will get rid of it.  Either you don't need the barrier and everything is fine, or when you do need it, it is inadequate to rely on. Big bad level 60 mobs hit hard, and ice barrier won't help you much.  Don't bother with it.
I don't have Cold Snap. The only spell you need it for is frost nova; it could be useful in an emergency. I'd skip it if you have some fire talent you really need the point for.
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Cold snap has been wonderful for me for leveling. Sure I pretty much only use it with frost nova, but I hate to die and it has saved my life. Maybe that is because my kiting skills weren't good enough or because I simply wasn't paying enough attention to the pull, but I've found that I like my "oh #$%&" buttons and that is what this is. I've even used it in an instance to get some massive CC on several melee mobs when pulls or runners have made things go bad.

If you have a druid main healer or a shaman main healer they will love you for ice barrier. Power word shiled 942 damage absorbed. Ice barrier 818 damage absorbed. They are very similar spells and most mages love the preshield for AoE. Mages who ice barrier then get a shield when that goes down can do quite a bit of damage without taking a single point. But I know that if a priest isn't around and I'm healing I'm so happy to see ice barrier go up in AoE situations.

I've also seen it used just a like a priest uses a shield, buying the healer enough time to keep you alive. For me it is way too much utility to give up. Ice block, the prereq is the one that I see as simply buying you more time before the inevitable.