An Argument Against Frozen Shadoweave

So, you're trying to be good at the arenas, and slowly coming to the horrible realization that You. Just. Aren't. CUTTING. It!

You, my good mage, are not specced Frost.

Now you've made the leap, or are considering the leap, to spec into Cold Smacking.

Say you have tailoring, and are sadly looking at your spellfire set. "Farewell", you say, "You have served me well".
The tailoring sets are very expensive items to have. The mats alone are nothing to scoff at.

SPELLCLOTH - 26
PRIMAL FIRE - 38
NETHERWEB SPIDER SILK - 10

That is a LOT of mats to get. Also consider that to make the spellcloth, thats going to run you another 13 primal fires, and 13 primal manas. Oh, yeah, and 13 Imbued Netherweave, which will run you 234 netherweave cloth, and throw some Arcane Dust in there...

AND if you've actually done some PvP with this set, chances are pretty good you've dropped a couple hundred gold into this set in gems and enchants.

So now you want to make the leap to Frozen Shadoweave. That'll cost you 26 Shadowcloth, 38 primal waters...and so on and so forth. Oh, and one hundred gold for the tailoring respec. Oh, and all those gems and enchants you have? Yup, you're getting new ones.
And you can just forget Raid viability. You will never see anything past Karazhan as Frost. Well, unless the people you run with are very desperate.

So, to you, the unfortunate mage, I present the following argument AGAINST spending a month or more simply getting the cash together to become Arena viable.

Patch 2.3 is coming, and you are definitely going to want to get you some welfare epix. (See last Friday's post)
Let's run the numbers again.

CHEST
Frozen Shadoweave --> Gladiator
-40 Spell Damage
+21 Stamina
-2 Intellect
+24 Resilience

SHOULDER
Frozen Shadoweave --> Gladiator
-18 Spell damage
+21 Stamina
-2 Intellect
+21 Resilience

And let's toss in the boots versus the PvP boots

Frozen Shadoweave --> Veteran's Dreadweave (The 70 PvP vendor gear)
+25 Stamina
-25 Spell damage
+18 Intellect
+27 Resilience
These gains here are somewhat offset by the fact they have no sockets. But, no matter what gems we toss on the Frozen Shadoweave, we're still going to lose out on Stamina and Resilience
And you GAIN intellect by moving from a PvE piece to a PvP piece? LOL WUT?

In total, for getting Gladiator/PvP gear instead of the Shadoweave set, you net:

STAMINA = +67
RESILIENCE = +72 (107 counting Gladiator Set Bonus)
INTELLECT= +16
SPELL DAMAGE = -83 (Yikes)

So... you tell me. Is 670 hitpoints, 240 mana and over one hundred resilience worth 83 Frost damage?
Considering the nature of arenas emphasizing survivability above anything else... I say it's self-explanatory.

And if you're like me and already have the Frozen set, leave it as is. Replace all you're other gear first, take apart the Frozen set last. And don't vendor/disenchant it, either. Re-gem/enchant it for PvE, on the offchance you get called on for, say, Heroic Shattered Halls or something.