Was the same with S2M and shadows. At the beginning of S2M only few players pulled insane numbers. But morw and more people closed the skill gap, top players rerolled to shadow and in the end, shadow was mandatory for highend raiding.
Lets be serious: many frost mages are currently bad. They perform bad because they dont understand the spec or make mistakes screwing their dps. Frost is pretty unforgiving at top level, just like S2M.
Frost mage with double IL is the new S2M. Mediocre players perform solid while top players pull insane numbers.
Balancing fire frost and arcane is impossible without nerfing frost.
Why would our frost mage ever stop playing frost when he can pull such insane numbers?
Fire has some great potential and isnt bad. The logs are misleading because top players play frost. Thats the reason why e.g. a massive frost nerf would lead to better logs for arcane and fire.
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Yeah by that logic fire isnt bad, it is fire mages simply are worse players.
Stupid argument.