What gear do I need to do good DPS with Fire?

Hey.

I've heard that Fire scales really well with gear, and I was just wondering with what level gear does this become apparent?

Thanks.
still waiting myself then again not #!@! for raid gears has been dropping for me
I'd say if you can get 25% flat crit with no buffs then you'll start to see some damage, otherwise it's pretty much the same as frost if not worse at times. Fire is very gear dependent, I wasn't fire in WoTLK until I had 45% flat crit and that was at the end of the expansion. I feel that holds true in a lot of way and lots of mages are crying about their fire deeps and they only have 15% crit. GG
Depends on what you're doing.

Key is realizing there's a huge difference in hit cap between raiding and heroics. You only need like 6-7% for Heroics and a whopping 17% for Raids. I focused most of my gear primarily on hit and crit and when I was running Heroics on a fairly regular basis there for a few days I reforged most of my hit rating into either Crit or Haste/Mastery.

At 25% crit I find Fire can still be a bit spotty. If you go too long without procing enough crits to get even semi reliable Hotstreaks it can be painful (especially when you have a 5k Living Bomb DOT + 10k Ignite DOT and are just missing Pyro for a great Combustion). With a Feral around I found myself reliably getting Hotstreak procs at 30% crit, so I imagine once you're able to get to the point you're hit capped and at 30% crit buffed up you should be good to go.

With the gear options I currently have I can push myself to around 17.41% hit and little over 25% chance to crit self buffed but my Haste is suffering (can be fixed with a few additions here and there but need to wait till I get ). Have only been 85 since last Monday so it's certainly not very difficult to gear up, but did have a little help from an alt and my Valor BOE boots ;)

Mana Management really comes down to rotation and crit rating in the end. More practice you get at the various Scorch rotations the easier time you'll have of it. However without enough crit you really can't pull it off since you'll never crit any mana back. Even with the new reductions (which will certainly help) still going to require you do the proper rotation on fights that last anything longer than 3-5 minutes.
Thank you for replies. Think I will just stick with arcane till my crit gets a bit higher.
I'm saying 25% no molten no buffs. Imp fireblast is nice too to add to that scorch rotation to try to fish for hot streak.