So why do you guys play mage? This is a question for everyone, WoTLK, TBC and Pandaria. For veterans and newbies.
Personally I play mage for several reasons. I like that fact that I can teleport all around the world and also take others with me with my portals, I like that I can make food/water for myself and others.
I play mage because of the AOE madness - as fire I dot up a bunch of mobs with living bomb and then watch them explode. As frost I gather up a bunch of dudes, freeze them and then slowly kill them with blizzard.
I also play it for the different feel of the specs, Fire I'm explosive critting all around, Arcane my mana becomes important to manage I have to managed myself between the maniac caster burning through his resource and the conservative and calculated mage trying to be careful with his resources.
As Frost I'm more relaxed, nothing really crazy going on slowly whittling down my enemies with some proccs here and there.
And of course, Blink. It's awesome.