Fire Mage Guide

If you have ever wondered why the saying is “fight fire with fire” instead of “fight everything with fire”, then perhaps WoW The War Within Fire Mage is the specialization for you. In our WoW Fire Mage DPS guide, we are going to cover the rotation, skills, hero talents, gear, consumables, and even more aspects of the spec’s gameplay. By the way, read our WoW Gold Farming Guide and learn how to make money.

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Fire Mage Overview

WoW Fire Mage has always been known for its offensive focus, high damage, and cleave in the form of Mastery: Ignite. Fire Mage DPS spec stands among the most complicated classes in WoW, as their rotation is intensive, and some new players struggle a lot with keeping up with the top performance. So, time and practice are your best friends, and in the right hands Fire Mage becomes a weapon of mass destruction (of the enemies, of course).

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Fire Mage Strengths and Weaknesses

Fire Mage Season 3 Changes

Fire Mage received only a few updates in The War Within Season:

• Time Anomaly removed; RNG reliance gone.
• Inspired Intellect buff added to compensate.
• Hyperthermia now ramps damage with each Hot Streak! spent.
• Slight overall damage tuning.

All in all, current Patch 11.2 Fire Mage playstyle feels as good or better than before. The class remains very mobile and fast-paced. Additionally, Fire Mage appeals to Sunfury fans and Sun King’s Blessing critics alike.

Fire Mage Season 2 Changes

In WoW TWW Season 2 Patch 11.1 Fire Mage received numerous changes to its talents, including both regular talents and Hero talents. Additionally, a new tier set Jewels of the Aspectral Emissary has been introduced, which will significantly enhance the revamped Fire Mage in Season 2 of TWW.

Fire Specialization Ability Changes

There aren’t many ability changes in the Fire Mage specialization, but here are the two changes introduced in Patch 11.1:

• Fireball — Cost changed from 2.0% of base mana to 1.0% of base mana.
• Flamestrike — Flamestrike damage increased by 10%. Mana cost reduced to 1.5% base mana (was 2.5%).

Fire Mage Talent Changes

In Patch 11.1, Fire Mage has received significant talent changes aimed at bringing this specialization back into the meta. Let’s take a closer look at the talent changes:

• Call of the Sun King — No longer grants an additional charge of Phoenix Flames and now grants 15% increased Phoenix Flames damage.
• Controlled Destruction — Now also triggers from Fireball.
• Fire Blast — Сooldown increased to 14 seconds (was 12 seconds).
• Heat Shimmer — No longer makes Scorch instant-cast. Now increases Scorch damage by 10%.
• Hyperthermia — Вuration reduced to 5 seconds (was 6 seconds).
• Master of Flame — Now increases Ignite and Fireball’s damage by 15% when Combustion is not active.
• Phoenix Reborn — Now refunds 1 Phoenix Flame charge on use (was 2). Phoenix Flames damage bonus increased to 200% (was 100%).
• Pyroblast — Damage increased by 10% and mana cost reduced to 1.5% base mana (was 2.5%).
• Pyrotechnics — Critical chance increased to 20% (was 10%).
• Sun King’s Blessing — Damage bonus increased to 280% (was 260%).

Fire Mage Hero Talent Changes

In Patch 11.1, Fire Mage also received minor adjustments to Hero Talents. Let’s now take a detailed look at all the changes Fire Mage will receive in Season 2:

Sunfury:

• Glorious Incandescence — Fire Blast cooldown reduction increased to 2 seconds when a meteorite strikes (was 1 second).

Frostfire:

• Excess Fire — Now triggers when you cast Meteor. New talent location.
• Excess Frost — Consuming Excess Fire causes your next Phoenix Flames to also cast Ice Nova at 200% effectiveness.
• Imbued Warding — New talent location.
• Isothermic Core — New talent location.
• Meltdown — New talent location.

Fire Mage Changes in The War Within

Fire Mage in The War Within getting lots of new talents. This gives us lots of variability. Bonus options are always good for our specializations.

• Temporal Warp has been replaced with Inspired Intellect;
• Mastery: Ignite has a chance to reduce cooldown on Fire Blast;
• Fuel the Fire is our basis now, Flamestrike contributes towards Hot Streak!;
• Scorch now automatically crits in execute;
• Living Bomb interacts with Lit Fuse, and has new talent interactions;
• Sun King’s Blessing and Unleashed Inferno are more viable now.

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Fire Mage Hero Talents

Newly introduced Hero Talents are also available in two new WoW Fire Mage talent trees. Frostfire and Sunfury Hero Trees shared with Frost and Arcane Mage respectively bring lots of new options to play as a Fire Mage. Here is the list of all new Hero Talents:

Basics of Fire Mage Gameplay

Fire Mage relies on critical strikes a lot to trigger Hot Streak!. The main way to do this is by converting Heating Up into Hot Streak! via Fire Blast. Most of your time will be spent casting Fireball and converting the critical strikes from that via Fire Blast into Hot Streak! and using those on Pyroblast.

The unique feature of Fire Mages is that some of their abilities can be cast simultaneously with other spells. Fire Blast is the primary spell that you need to cast with other spells, but Fire’s main DPS CD, Combustion, can also be cast during other spells. Combustion is Fire’s major DPS cooldown. It makes all your spells critically strike allowing for a period of heavy burst and causing a large amount of Hot Streaks in a short period.

Fire Mage Rotation

WoW Fire Mage rotation at its core is all about generating as many Hot Streak procs as possible, to fire off instant cast Pyroblast. The variety of ways to do this is huge, but the general rotation involves casting Fireball until Heating Up procs, and then converting it into Hot Streak via Fire Blast.

Since Fire Blast can be cast while casting, you always keep chaining Fireball, and then when one of them crit, while you are casting the next Fireball you cast Fire Blast to generate the Hot Streak. Then as your Fireball cast finishes, you can fire off the Fireball and an instant Pyroblast at the same time. Both of these spells land at the same time. If one of them crits, you get a new Heating Up and the cycle continues into Fireball + Fire Blast → Pyroblast.

Single-Target Fire Mage Rotation

1. Combustion while you are in the middle of a Fireball cast.
2. Shifting Power when Combustion is on cooldown, and you do not currently have it active. Lastly, ensure you do not have 3 charges of Fire Blast. Generally, this means using it right after your Combustion phase ends.
3. Hardcast Pyroblast when you have a Sun King’s Blessing proc.
4. Pyroblast when you have a Hot Streak proc. Generally aim to cast Pyroblast immediately after a Fireball cast so both land at the same time.
5. Fire Blast when you have Heating Up to convert it into Hot Streak.
6. Keep up Feel the Burn by timing your Fire Blast and Phoenix Flames in such a way that you refresh the stacks as late as possible.
7. Scorch as your filler if the target is below 30% Health to generate Heating Up / Hot Streak.
8. Fireball as your filler to generate Heating Up / Hot Streak.
9. Scorch if you have to move and have no instant casts to burn.

AoE Fire Mage Rotation

Since Flamestrike builds fall short of performance compared to cleave-based builds, Fire Mage AoE rotation doesn’t have any significant differences from Single-Target rotation.

While doing your single target rotation, you will automatically spread Mastery: Ignite and Lit Fuse will consistently apply Living Bomb to your target and nearby another target via Blast Zone.

Combine this with various other talents like Firefall throwing down Meteor, Mark of the Fire Lord applying large Mastery: Ignite from Living Bomb, and Phoenix Flames high AoE damage, and you can see how simply doing your single target rotation leads not only to significant AoE damage but also increased single target damage, via Sparking Cinders.

Specialization Skills

This is a list of important abilities you should know. Depending on your talent choices you will prioritize different abilities.

Fire Mage Talents

There are plenty of notable Fire Mage WoW talents. Here we mention the most important ones. You should know that different encounters demand different talent priorities. Changing talents in different encounters will increase your performance.

Fire Mage Build

Here we gathered WoW Fire Mage Talents, which are best for particular in-game situations. The WoW Fire Mage builds below are exactly what you need when you plan to raid or run a bunch of Mythic+ dungeons.

Mythic+ Sunfury Build

Raid Solo Target Frostfire Build

Raid Cleave Sunfury Build

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Just copy the needed WoW Fire Mage build that you need, paste it into the game, and save it to use later.

Fire Mage Stats

Fire Mages primarily favor Intellect and Haste. It is always recommended to sim your own character since every player’s approach to gameplay is different. So, WoW Fire Mage stat priority is:

1. Haste;
2. Critical Strike;
3. Versatility;
4. Mastery.

Above certain levels, secondary WoW Fire Mage stats have diminished returns. Gathering their Best in Slot gear, Fire Mages will have a nice spread of Haste, Versatility, and Critical Strike while generally avoiding diminished returns.

📌 Note: Mastery gains value for cleave encounters.

Fire Mage Leveling

Fire Mage can be a very bursty specialization. Often when solo questing, you feel like an unstoppable killing machine while Combustion is up, but the moment it fades, your damage falls off a cliff. That means killing mobs one at a time can be a bit of an annoyance while you’re waiting on cooldowns.

Thankfully, Mage controls large packs of enemies with extreme ease, so generally, it is advised to try and group up to AoE before using your Combustion cooldown. Also, you can ask for Power Leveling from our team, who know how to turn Mage leveling into a very fast and easy process.

Fire Mage Leveling Tips for The War Within

If you’re looking to level by questing, Frost Mage is usually the spec to play. Fire isn’t bad; just like mentioned before, having a high burst is a double-edged sword: you are really powerful on cooldown but pretty weak off of it. You can get away with literally never actually having to think about your cooldowns and just have an easier time because every spell slows enemies as Frost.

The most general tip for leveling that we can give is being efficient with your time spent in combat — skip things you don’t need and round up a ton of mobs when cooldowns are up. Most importantly, do not get beat up by mobs! Cast Ice Nova, Blast Wave with Volatile Detonation, Freezing Cold, and give Fire Mage strong options to help when kiting packs of mobs.

• Pay attention to your cooldowns and use them often. Always try to plan a big pull when Combustion will be up soon. Don’t sit on your cooldowns, try to use them every time they are up! This includes Blazing Barrier.
• Use your CC. You are wearing a robe for crying out loud, don’t take unnecessary beatings from mobs. Roots, slows, and knockbacks should be used liberally. If you are AoEing a pack of mobs and one is to the side casting or shooting you, Poly it.
• Do not be afraid to pull big. You can’t test your limits if you’re afraid to pull too much. Remember, AoE and burst are what Fire is strongest at.
• Be efficient! With either Greater Invisibility or Mass Invisibility skip things you don’t need to save yourself a huge amount of time. Use them to exit combat early when you’re done with a fight.
• Go fast! Because mobility is super powerful when talking about leveling efficiency, don’t be afraid to double-tap Alter Time for the Shimmer reset from Master of Time.
• If things start to look bad for you, bail. Fire Mage doesn’t have a good way to heal and will lose a battle of attrition. If things start to go sideways, Frost Nova the mobs, get some distance, and use Invisibility if needed.
• Last but not least, eat your Conjure Refreshment. This might seem obvious, but food helps you recover quicker.

How to Gear Up Fire Mage

Gearing your character involves analyzing the items that you have and looking for the highest item level. The more Intellect you have, the more damage you deal, but do not forget about the secondary stats.

Best Gear for Fire Mage

This is a WoW Fire Mage BiS gear that you can find in the game, but you always should simulate your character with Simcraft for better options. Or, if you are not interested in these details and just want a ready-to-go character, we are ready to obtain a full BiS Gear Set for your Fire Mage.

Best Fire Mage Trinkets

In this section of our guide, we have gathered the Tier List of trinkets, you can choose whatever you like or something that is best for your character stats. The best way to find out which trinket is the best for you is to Simcraft the trinkets from this list.

• Azhiccaran Parapodia;
• Ara-Kara Sacbrood;
• Diamantine Voidcore;

• Astral Antenna;
• So’leah’s Secret Technique;
• Araz’s Ritual Forge;
• Lily of the Eternal Weave;
• Signet of the Priory;
• Empowering Crystal of Anub’ikkaj;

• Miniscule Mailemental in an Envelope;
• Sunblood Amethyst;
• Soulbreaker’s Sigil.

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Tier Set Bonuses for Fire Mage

Fire Mage Elite

Fire Mage Gladiator

Fire Mage Heroic

Fire Mage Mythic

Fire Mage Normal

Fire Mage Raid Finder

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In Season 3, Mage tier sets received a rework, and now they provide tier set bonuses based on your Hero Talents. Fire mage can enjoy the bonuses of either Frostfire or Sunfury from the Augur’s Ephemeral Plumage tier set.

Frostfire Fire Mage Tier Set Bonuses:

Sunfury Fire Mage Tier Set Bonuses:

Fire Mage Season 2 Tier Set Bonuses

Fire Mage PvP 2 Tier Set

Fire Mage PvP 1 Tier Set

Fire Mage Mythic Tier Set

Fire Mage Heroic Tier Set

Fire Mage Normal Tier Set

Fire Mage LFG Tier Set

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In Season 2 of The War Within, Fire Mage received a new tier set Jewels of the Aspectral Emissary that will significantly enhance its performance in Patch 11.1. This set can be obtained from the new raid, the Great Vault, or crafted using the Catalyst.

Fire Mage Season 1 Tier Set Bonuses

Fire Mage Normal Set

Fire Mage Heroic Set

Fire Mage Mythic Set

Fire Mage PvP 1 Set

Fire Mage PvP 2 Set

Fire Mage Raid Finder Set

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Best Items to Upgrade with Harbinger Crests for Fire Mage

Here are some options you may be interested in:

• Slippers of the Wovent Dusk — good tailoring option.
• Gloves of the Woven Dusk — also a good tailoring option.
• Cool Sunset Bracers — craft with other set parts.
• Ring of Earthen Craftsmanship — one of the best rings.
• Charged Hexsword — Main Hand weapon with decent stats.

Best Crafted Gear for Fire Mage

WoW Fire Mage Crafted gear and crafted Embellishments are powerful upgrades for your gear, but you should choose wisely — only your best items should get the upgrade since you can only apply two embellishments to your equipment.

• Charged Hexsword + Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension;
• Vagabond’s Torch + Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension;
• Low Item level Piece + Spark of Omens.

Best Consumables for Fire Mage

Consumables are one-time-use items that provide temporary effects. While most can be useful in different scenarios, some might be completely pointless for your needs. It’s important to pick the right consumables based on your stat priorities and current gear. Thus, we have prepared a list of the best consumables for WoW Fire Mage:

Type	Best
Flask	Flask of Tempered Swiftness   Flask of Alchemical Chaos
Combat Potion	Tempered Potion
Health Potion	Algari Healing Potion
Weapon Buff	Algari Mana Oil
Augment Rune	Crystallized Augment Rune
Food	Beledar’s Bounty /  Feast of the Midnight Masquerade
Diamond	Culminating Blasphemite
Other Gems	Versatile Emerald

Best Fire Mage Enchants

Slot	Best Enchant
Weapon	Enchant Weapon – Oathsworn’s Tenacity   Enchant Weapon – Stormrider’s Fury
Cloak	Enchant Cloak – Chant of Winged Grace
Chest	Enchant Chest – Crystalline Radiance
Bracers	Enchant Bracer – Chant of Armored Avoidance
Legs	Sunset Spellthread
Boots	Enchant Boots – Defender’s March
Ring – Regular	Enchant Ring – Radiant Haste
Ring – Cursed	Enchant Ring – Cursed Haste

Fire Mage End-Game

Fire Mage is a very fun class to play. With its very active gameplay, you have almost no room for mistakes. Regardless, Fire Mage WoW is a very efficient class spec in all kinds of End-game content. In Mythic+ Fire Mage always shows itself as an outstanding DPS character. In Raids Fire Mage is not that good but still compatible with other DPS specs. However, you can still get the Manaforge Omega Heroic completed without the fear of being kicked out — our team will take care of your Fire Mage.

Best Race for Fire Mage

Mages can be in every race, except the Dracthyrs. You have many rooms for customization and racial ability choices. If you are playing Horde, you have Tauren or Troll as a very useful option. Playing Alliance gives you the Dwarf option to play. However, you should choose what you like more in terms of character customization and racial abilities.

Alliance

Alliance players often consider Dwarf the best race for Fire Mage WoW The War Within because of Might of the Mountain and Stoneform.

Horde

If you plan to play for the Horde, consider choosing Tauren because of their Brawn racial and some other abilities to use.

Best Fire Mage Profession

Professions are one of the best assets on your way forward. But you should always choose only based on their preferences. There are lots of options for Fire Mage. Tailoring and Enchanting is a classic pair. Also, Alchemy with Herbalism or Jewelcrafting/Engineering with Mining are good choices too. You can try whatever you want since leveling professions nowadays take not so long. But if you want to speed up this experience, we offer you to obtain Profession Knowledge with the help of our pro team.

Improving as Fire Mage

If you find yourself facing performance issues, analyzing your Mage gameplay will help you to resolve most problems. The game experience is the strongest weapon in your arsenal, that’s why you should practice with your character anytime you can.

Low Downtime Performance

Fire Mage is a an active spec that constantly casts spells. Any time you are not casting, you are losing your DPS. To avoid this, you need to learn themechanincs of each encounter. Since Fire Mage has lots of instant spells, it allows you lots of options on almost every encounter. If you need to be in a certain position in 10 seconds, you can start to move there slowly procing your Pyroblast. Also, you have lots of movement utilities to help yourself in the battle.

Combustion Uptime

Combustion is your main asset and cooldown. You should use it on cooldown. But if you use your Combustion when the boss goes inactive you put yourself in a very disadvantageous position. As we said above, you should always know the encounter mechanics. In addition, try to save at least one movement option for your Combustion. This gives you many options for your Pyroblast hard-casting window.

Fire Mage Macros

When it comes to complex rotations, macros are a lifesaver. They help you automate sequences of abilities, reducing the risk of misclicks or delays, and ensuring you’re always executing your rotation flawlessly.

Fire Mage Macros

• Stopcast Blink
  #showtooltip
  /stopcasting
  /cast Blink
• 1-Button Block
  #showtooltip
  /stopcasting
  /cancelaura Ice Block
  /cast Ice Block
• Block Cancel
  /cancelaura Ice Block
• Alter Time Cancel
  /cancelaura Alter Time
• Mouseover Decurse
  #showtooltip
  /use [@cursor]Remove Curse

Is Fire Mage Viable in The War Within?

Fire Mages are best at either stacked AoE or a single target. They also possess cleave damage without losing out on a single target due to Ignite spread. Fire’s Raid viability has been pretty solid for most of the previous expansion, with Single Target damage being somewhat underfunded. Fire Mage brings very strong cleave, execute, and cheat death with Cauterize. It is fairly comfortable for those who enjoy firing fire around.

Fire is quite excellent for Mythic+ as long as targets live long enough for your Mastery: Ignite. You can also now choose between Flame Patch and Quickflame with Flamestrike. Quickflame makes it so tanks can’t kite mobs out of your damage anymore. Fire takes a little while to heat up, but has quite good damage as long as targets are healthy and you pool big.

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In conclusion, WoW Fire Mage always shows itself better in Mythic+ and PvP. It doesn’t mean that they are bad at Raids, but more efficiently they shine there. Thanks to their outstanding utilities you always will be welcome in all kinds of groups. And with our guide, in which we’ve tried to tell you all about talents, abilities, leveling, and BiS gear for The War Within Fire Mage, you will be able to improve your gameplay.