Originally Posted by
zomgDPS
That being said, fire mages just do not have this issue. Nabal, our resident firemage, would be perfectly happy even during moments of heavy movement. Couple this with the fact that if things stay the way they are (and since the next set of Arcane PTR changes are actually, according to the numerical theorycraft, turning out to be more of a nerf) I'm pretty sure Fire will be the defacto spec for 5.2.
Unfortunately, it seems we have just run out of time to get Arcane fixed. Its current weak state (and weaker still with the next set of changes) I just do not see how it can remain competitive. Remember, we have about a week left now till live.
We are going to be doing ~half a day of testing today, but I'm almost ready to call 5.2 it in favor of Fire at this point. Lets see if anything changes.