Maybe I'm exaggerating but...

[:1]From my experience having played a warlock in pvp and a couple melee classes in pvp I find playing my mage to be harder. There's usually a lot more I have to keep an eye on and be thinking about in arenas or normal pvp. I also find at least right now that (as expected) melee is scaling well with gear and their damage has gone up well with weapons and gear, where as ours has gone up some. I know we're about burst in general, but none the less I feel as though our burst has begun to pale a bit in comparison to what melee users can dish out.

Don't get me wrong, I know we're quite capable of holding our own 1v1. This is not what that is about though, it's about group pvp.

One other thing that kinda gets me. I didn't really play in LK on my mage. I tapered off playing in BC, but played from the start in Vanilla. Anyway what gets me is just the sheer amount of spells and stuns and interrupts that every class has. Is anyone else a bit overwhelmed by the fact that almost every class has a stun or an interrupt or both now? Even with juking I find it difficult to cast. I dunno, maybe i'm just bad.

One other thing that kinda gets me. I didn't really play in LK on my mage. I tapered off playing in BC, but played from the start in Vanilla. Anyway what gets me is just the sheer amount of spells and stuns and interrupts that every class has. Is anyone else a bit overwhelmed by the fact that almost every class has a stun or an interrupt or both now? Even with juking I find it difficult to cast. I dunno, maybe i'm just bad.

This is what caused frost to generally resort to "icelance spam". As I said before, it's not that we won't cast frostbolt, it's that we quite frankly, can't cast frostbolt. Though I know that's not totally true, the fact remains, it wasn't NEARLY REMOTELY as hard to get a cast off back then as it is now. And god forbid you go to juke and get caught anyway.

Not saying I do horribly either though. I just kinda hate how everything can do everything, nearly all the time.
To Tiamate, I had reforged to some haste before the patch, but I'm going back now to reforge it over to crit. Also, no offense, but "fine" is relative to a person's expectations/standards.

Ghobe, yes that is part of my frustration and what I see as a big problem. Blizzard said this game is based around group play, especially the pvp, and yet I feel like every class has been equipped with the abilities to fight in a 1v1 style. While this is great for people who love to duel, or who feel they must be able to beat people 1v1 I feel it has left group pvp as somewhat of a mess. Part of it is I lack a deep knowledge of every other class, but with so many cooldowns and so many abilities on every class it's very difficult (at least for me) to predict things now.

One other thing, can we please not receive more new spells? I have so many keys bound it's dumb. I enjoy playing this game, but when i have to bind over 30 keys for pvp I think things are a bit obnoxious.