in case people were lazy and curious, I went onto the PTR and did some preliminary DPS tests on target dummies for both frost raiding and arcane raiding specs.
I found that arcane would pull off arround 5k DPS over 4 minutes
and frost could pull off 4.5k ish DPS over 8 minutes
now, remember the situation: TARGET DUMMIES
meaning no raid buffs, meaning ttw was not going off (even for frost, I had frostbolt glyphed) and it also meant no focus magic, and no use of deep freeze for frost (since dummies can be stunned...)
I will go back on later tonight and do more thorough tests and postmore details if people are interested.
Question time:
Based on these numbers, is it fair to say that Frost may become a viable (not top, but close) raid spec?
EDIT: read my futur posts starting with "UPDATE TO NUMBERS AND INFORMATION" It has updates to numbers and new info.