Mage - IA Specs

[thecoalition]

First, grats on the prof kill.

I noticed all of your main mages are running the IA spec, however, there is no cookie cutter build at this time. Sniffu has no points in arc focus while dvl and baltha both put 1 point into it.
- is this preference for the lower hit or due to the issue that you have only 3/5 in arcane mind so your mana pool is not as large so you use it for the mana cost reduction?

also, what do you find is the best way to keep your shields/wards up as much as possible? macro it to another item/spell?

[Baltha]

Mana cost reduction in arcane focus is allmost useless, I have one point in it only because my gear suits best for that.

Wards and manashield triggers gcd, so kinda useless to macro it to anything...

[thecoalition]

ok thank you - i figured the wards and shield were useless to macro as well.
the only fight i got to test the spec on was dreamwalker so i will see how it goes this week.