Help me decide (mage or lock)

[CZM]

Hello,

I've been playing a Priest since Vanilla. I love the class. However, I'm bored of healing - I've had enough Whack-A-Mole to last a lifetime.

I love DPSing, and I love Shadow, but I don't like the fact that I'm locked into one spec for raiding for that role.

Also, I always seem to wind up getting "suckered" back into healing, or tempted to heal for faster queue times and end up wanting to rip my hair out.\

So I'm rolling either a Mage or Warlock for raiding. Strictly PvE - PvP is not a factor in my decision.

What I'm looking for:

-Flexibility regarding spec (two or more viable raid specs)

-High raid DPS (yes, as shallow as it may be, I love competing on Recount)

-Rotation / priority system that [hopefully] won't get old within a week, requires *some* thought to maximize output

-Good chance at getting brought to raids (*not* like Shaman)

-"Fun" (whatever that means) outside of raids

Thanks in advance.

[Velyndina]

Mage. Arcane, fire, frost - ALL viable.
Very high dps, fire has amazing AoE.
Rotations for all 3 specs are fun...well, not so much for arcane.
Theres a mage in every raid (I hope)
Yeah its fun, been a mage for YEARS, still love both pve and pvp.

Also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXooH7BLIbA >_>

Oh and one MORE thing, if you wanna have fun leveling please dont go frost, it was really mind-numbingly easy for me, I leveled fire instead.

[Niaccki]

Go mage. Fire has a fun rotation in my opinion at least. Frost and Arcane are also viable. They are fun to level, they have great utility and are amazing for pvp. Mages have become key in raids for all the utility that they provide. I recently got my mage to 85 and it has since become my main and I'm loving every minute of it. This is coming from a hunter/pally. I def suggest playing a fire mage.

[Nicola]

mage: op in general
lock: on border between up and balanced.

go for mage, blizz loves em.

[holyforce]

mage: op in general
lock: on border between broken(in pvp) and broken(in pvp)

go for mage, blizz loves em.

fix't that for ya

[bahumut5]

Pick that one class that shoots fire out of their sleeves.
Really though, just try them both out a bit and see for yourself which one has the most fun mechanics.