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If you prefer to spend your time in PvP with your Mage then you are going to love the changes to the talent tree in Cataclysm. The best Mage PvP talents in Cataclysm are the ones you use as an Arcane Mage as they have been devised to provide you with plenty of fire power to take out your opponents and keep your Mana levels high.
Among these talents are Arcane Power, Arcane Concentration, Improved Mana Shield and Presence of Mind. These may not be the most Mana efficient spells that you have, but they are designed to provide maximum nuking power. A new talent called Slow does exactly what its name says and slows your opponent down so that you can keep your distance and use your spells to take them down at your leisure.
Since you are rolling an all Arcane Mage, or at least you should be if you are serious about PvP and want to win, you need to add Improved and Empowered Arcane Explosion as well as Arcane Missiles. The new Arcane Missiles proc rather than being a straight button activated spell. Because it is a proc, the amount of damage they do has been increased significantly. Adding all of this together will make the Arcane Mage all but unstoppable in both the arenas and the battlegrounds.
If on the other hand Arcane is not going to be your main spec, then you need to put enough points in Arcane to get Arcane Power so that you can still take advantage of those hard hitting arcane spells that are so powerful in PvP. If you want to avoid being an Arcane Mage, then the next most popular build is the Fire Mage. Until recently the Fire Mage has been a hugely popular build with mass amounts of damage, Arcane has replaced Fire as the hardest hitting.
Fire offers some very hard hitting spells including the new Fire Orb that tracks the target down and does almost 500 DPS for up to 15 seconds. When you combine this with your Arcane Missiles, your enemies are not likely to last very long. With both of these builds the one thing that you are going to have remember to keep a close eye on your Mana levels as both are very heavy Mana users.
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