Blizzard,
The mage class in its current form is practically unplayable. You have pigeonholed us into one viable spec and taken away all of the defense of that spec.
1) 0.5 sec Mass Dispel has seriously diminished the effectiveness of ice block.
2) More classes have offensive dispels leaving our ice barrier as almost a waste of a GCD.
3) Mana helps keep us alive, but through all the burns that exist, you leave us no way to keep ourselves alive with it.
4) The mana cost of blink is so outrageous that using our primary escape ability more than a few times a game can cost us the match.
Our offensive capabilities are almost non existent:
1) Stick a pet on the mage, dps ruined.
2) Hug a pillar and a mage can never kill you.
3) We will go oom before we can kill any competent healer.
4) When focused, we lose all mana efficiency and can't really perform our primary tasks of damage or cc.
I give up, I'm tired of waiting for Blizzard to open their eyes and fix the mage class. When you originally make hypothermia 45 seconds, I took that as a sign that no positive changes were coming our way anytime soon and start leveling a druid. That druid is now 64 and will hopefully soon be 70. This is my third and final season of playing a mage at the gladiator levels, and I don't see any real reason to continue wasting my time with a dead class.
Good luck if you still want to play a mage. Apparently you can handle the frustration much better than myself :P