61 Points, seriously?!?

Yeah. I know. I'm 61 points in frost with Nar, and that's the crazy talk. No, I didn't invest a single one of those points in arcane or fire. I don't even have any of the talents in one of those trees than help every mage. Is it just the purist in me? Is it just the crazy in me? Is is just my desire to be different than the other 70 frost mage in my guild who just dinged and did take points in fire? (okay, maybe a little of that).

I think it's mainly that I wanted to learn what one tree had to offer. So... with all those points invested in frost, what didn't I take then?

Okay, so the two talents that I didn't invest any points in and why:

Frost Warding: Increases the armor and resistances given by your Frost armor and Ice Armor spells by 15%. In addition, gives your Frost Ward a 10% chance to reflect Frost spells and effects while active.

Okay, so while the reflecting might be cool, you've got to be kidding me. One, I'm always runing with Mage Armor up any way. Mana Regen FTW! So, I totally skipped over the, "Oooh, I'm like a water elemental... Your frost spells don't hurt me... boogie boogie boo!"

Frozen Core: Reduces the damage taken by Frost and Fire effects by 2%.

So, resists are nice, but I could totally pop a frost or fire ward at a key moment if I need to... (and if I remember to do so... yeah, really bad at that). But, the resistance doesn't really help me do much of my main function... DPS.

Neither one of these talents are going to positively effect my DPS... so I didn't take them. Maxing out crit and spell damage as much as possible through gear and giving myself the talents that make my frost spells as powerful as they can be was my aim, and neither one of these talents positively effect my spells. Sure, I might be more difficult to hurt from a few schools of magic... but I don't think that would have been worth losing a talent point in something else more beneficial.

So there... 0/0/61.