Hmm, I posted before but it seems the input for my post wasn't taken. I'll write it again.
Really good guide, thanks for it. A couple of questions that have been nagging me as I went on with my mage:
Do we have any guide/how to build a clean vanilla mage UI for playing?. I'm currently using a combination of Grid + decursive. I can see the curses on the frames and it's pretty nice but I'm still unable to see Arcane Intellect/Brilliance buff: who has it and who doesnt (once 5 buffs are applied I'm unable to see the rest of the list on that player).