First off, here's my mage...
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...7zhul&n=Khomie
Now, I know my gems are a little screwy, I'm working my way towards all +23 spell power gems and +12 spell power +10 spirit (x2). I don't want to spend money on gems, I'd rather just get them from honor and then get someone in my guild to cut it for free. :-)
This mage in Dalaran today whispered me, told me my gems were all messed up, to which I told him I currently knew that, and I'm working towards getting new gems. He told me that my DPS would be ultra low with the gems I currently had and that if I gemmed like i stated above, my DPS would increase significatly. He told me he has less gear then me, and he gets around 10K dps on the Northrend Beasts encounter in TOC.
I told him that I'm suffering from haste, (I only have 330 something). He told me that I had more then enough haste for Fire/TTW spec, and that haste isn't that big of a benefit for Fire/TTW.
I've been researchign for a while now, and everywhere I look, they say that Haste is actually really beneficial for Fire/TTW spec and that 500-600 is good for TOC25(H).
I would like to know if he's telling the truth, or if I'm right and actually need more haste.
*NOTE* Just a little thing to toss in here, there was another mage in my guild (he recently /gquit because he was butt hurt over losing the /roll my guild does on PVP gear from VOA) that normally does 7K dps on non gimmick fights, same exact spec, a little more gear then me (not by a lot), but he has like 620 something haste.