I am having trouble deciding how to gem my Mage. I have tons of gear with Hit on it and I can't reforge enough of it away. For Yellow slots I have been gemming +320 Haste instead of 80 INT and 160 Haste. I recently had all Mastery gems when I was trying Arcane. I like Frost better and do better DPS as Frost so I want to optimize myself for that spec. My reforge scheme is Haste > Mastery > Crit. Since my gear gives me a lot of Hit and Mastery, Arcane is the logical second spec choice.
I am not sure what to do with the Blue gem slots. I haven't changed the green gems out from my Arcane build yet so they're currently Hit/Mastery. I am not getting the socket bonus on my chest piece right now. I am getting 640 Haste and giving up a +120 INT bonus. I don't really want to use INT and Hit gems because the 320 Hit would be wasted as it puts me even further over the cap. So if I were going for the socket bonus I'd be tempted to use the Timeless Wild Jade gem (INT/Stamina) since the extra HP is worth more than the Hit. Forceful Wild Jade (Haste/Stamina) is also attractive.
Basically, what are others' thoughts on INT/Stamina or Haste/Stamina gems? Mismatching colors and missing socket bonuses bothers me enough to give up a small edge that Simcraft might give the +320 Haste gems.
As an aside to all of this, I could break my 2pc bonus and use the 522 Flamecaster's Burning Crown (Crit/Haste). That would solve some of my Hit issue as well as giving a nice INT boost. Is the 2pc Tier bonus strong enough to keep or is that something that only Simcraft can tell me? I have never been able to become proficient with Simcraft so that's why I'm trying this thread first :-/
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...migel/advanced
Thank you in advance.