Regrading the 2 Fire Mage builds, i disagree with some of the talent placements.
For the Fire/Arcane build(my most played/favorite spec)http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?mage#BL ... 9ORe,12213Molten Shields 2/2-is a must in my mind. This talent is one of the few survivability talents we have as fire. WE MUST USE IT! helpful against so many classes i dont see why you wouldnt spec into this.....warlock/frost mages/frost DK/Warr's reflecting ur shit back 2 u....ele shams/surv. hunters. the list goes on.
Burning Soul 0/2- In my mind this spell is totally pointless for fire PvP, u only cast 2 spells. both are below 1.5 casts. enough said.
Flame Throwing 2/2- This is where the points he put into burning soul i would put into flame throwing. Its just so much more viable especially with the limited range of fire blast. Keeping people in range of Impact procs are key to controlling them. Impact procs all the time especially with molten armor on but i never use molten armor. Also living bombs from far range are always a plus.
Focus Magic 0/1 or 1/1-Depends if you doing arenas or BG's, if arenas and ur with a caster i would definitively, and do, spec into this talent. Crit is all that matters in fire spec.
World in Flames 0/3- This is a good talent but in my mind is not really worth it considering what else is out there. granted it gives nice crit to thous certain spells(pyro/LB mostly) but since it doesnt add crit to FB/Scorch it makes it a lot less useful, pyro crit wont help if u can get hot streak procs.
As Far as gemming goes CRIT>all... i used all proper gemming placements.
red-sp/crit
yellow-crit
blue-crit/Spell penn.
i also have 130 spell penn on this build.
The Fire/FFB Spec--
http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?mage#fl ... 9ORe,12213This is really a BG only spec i use, my goal was hardest hitting FFB i can get with no survivability. I have a bunch of variations with this build depending what type of PvP im doing, so dont think this is the only way i rock this spec but this one is strictly for BG's and thats it.
Pretty much chill in the back of the group pumping out massively high numbers. And Failling back on DB/BW/Nova/CoC/Images/Ice block/invis to run lika girl. :p some might not like this but im like a little kidd i love high numbers so i had to make a build like this for fun. ive done well with this build b4 ive had a few 30+ KB games with 2 or less deaths.
Burning Soul 2/2- Its a BG spec that all your doing is casting FFB's so now this is more viable.
Shatter 0/3- Since its a BG spec ive had to many times kids breaking my novas b4 my FFB gets off so i just removed this talent to make my FFB hits harder. I know its a shatter build without shatter, but its for BG's and my main goal was FFB dmg.
Ice Shards 3/3- The Shatter build i saw posted, i dont see why you would spec into a shatter build without this talent.... to me its better then shatter lol for this type of build atleast.
Fire/Frost warding - I do spec into both of thous talents on another FFB i have which is more 2v2/duel orientated. The combo of the two ward talents is so GG 30% Reflect/30% negate with mana/5% negate from glyph/about 2k dmg absorb. some time with this setup the ward lasts for a while...reflect 1 negate 1 eat 1...3 casts i have see this pretty much cancel.
Precision 0/3- Just a waste of points here in my mind.... hit cap is not a problem and the mana saved is not worth the 3 talent points.
as far as gemming...i went for stacking SP since its a FFB DMG spec...so in all the spots where SP was not added for using the proper gems(ie stam/resil) i instead used a red SP gems and only used proper gemming in the items that gave + SP for proper gem useage.
red-sp
yellow-sp/crit
blue-2 for meta sp/stam i think i did (i 4get)
i rock about 80ish spell penn this build 35 from cloak enchant and the rest from the spell penn wrath wand.
thats pretty much all i have 2 add for now, my main focus was the Arcane/Fire spec thou, the FFB spec for me is mostly a fun spec which i use when bored just the fact that it hits so f'in hard and in BG's the heal reduc helps.