Fire Mage PvE Guide — Midnight

by Fouren

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About the Class

Fire Mage is a ranged fighter who can wield either two one-handed weapons (wands, daggers, off-hand items) or a two-handed weapon (staves). The class boasts enormous burst damage both in single target and AoE, as well as a very fast rotation during its burst cooldown, which demands quick reactions to the ability procs that appear.

Strengths

Excellent damage in both single target and AoE.
Simple rotation that lets you grasp the class quickly and put out good results.
A raid buff that grants 30% haste for 30 seconds (Bloodlust, Heroism), as well as an Intellect buff for every raid/party member.

Weaknesses

Heavy reliance on burst cooldowns. Without them the class deals mediocre damage.
You must watch for ability procs and react to them quickly, since every delay significantly reduces your damage output.
For AoE damage the mobs must be standing close together, as the radius of AoE abilities is small

Stat Priority

Mage Fire Stats Priority

Intellect

Haste

Mastery

Versatility

Critical Strike

Talents

Mage Fire Mythic+ Build

No talent data

Rotation (Abilities Priority)

Mage Fire Abilities Priority

Single Target

Firestarter — When active, delay Combustion until the target's health drops below 90%
Combustion — Use Combustion near the end of a cast with a cast time
Frostfire Bolt
Meteor — Use it as soon as it becomes available. If you had to delay it by more than 10 seconds, skip the use and save Meteor for Combustion
Hot Streak — When active, use Pyroblast. Use it after casting a non-instant Frostfire Bolt so that both reach the target at the same time
Combustion — If you have only one stack of Pyroclasm and Combustion will be ready before Pyroclasm expires, you should delay the cast with a cast time until right before Combustion, then cast Pyroblast so that Combustion fires at the moment the Pyroblast cast finishes
Fire Blast — to convert Heating Up into Hot Streak
Frostfire Bolt — as a filler to gain Hot Streak / Heating Up

AoE

Firestarter — When active, delay Combustion until the target's health drops below 90%. Also do not use Flamestrike at all while the target is above 90% health
Combustion — Use Combustion near the end of a cast with a cast time
Frostfire Bolt
Meteor — Use it as soon as it becomes available. If you had to delay it by more than 10 seconds, skip the use and save Meteor for Combustion
Hot Streak — When active, use Pyroblast. Use it after casting a non-instant Frostfire Bolt so that both reach the target at the same time
Hot Streak — When you have it, use Flamestrike
Combustion — If you have only one stack of Pyroclasm and Combustion will be ready before Pyroclasm expires, you should delay the cast with a cast time until right before Combustion, then cast Pyroblast so that Combustion fires at the moment the Pyroblast cast finishes
Fire Blast — to convert Heating Up into Hot Streak
Frostfire Bolt — as a filler to gain Hot Streak / Heating Up

Best in Slot (BiS)

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Mage: Gear

Two-Hand Weapon

Brazier of Unctuous Dirge

Head

Voidbreaker Cowl

Neck

Amulet of the Void Hymn

Shoulder

Voidbreaker Leyline Knots

Back

Devout Silken Shroud

Chest

Rotmancer’s Moldy Vestments

Wrist

Martyr’s Wristwraps

Hands

Voidbreaker Gauntlets

Waist

Whisperwind Sash

Legs

Voidbreaker Trousers

Feet

Lightbinder’s Jackboots

Ring

Eye of Midnight

Ring

Sporecaller’s Blooming Band

Trinket

Alozar’s Quill

Trinket

Wanderer’s Ribbon

Enchants, Gems, Consumables

Enchants

Weapon

Enchant Weapon - Authority of Radiant Power

Head

Enchant Helm - Chilled Rune of Avoidance

Shoulder

Enchant Shoulder - Glimmering Mark of Amirdrassil

Chest

Enchant Chest - Crystalline Radiance

Legs

Sunfire Enchanted Silk Thread

Feet

Enchant Boots - Roots of Shaladrassil

Ring

Enchant Ring - Cursed Eye of the Eagle

Gems

Meta gem

Mighty Eternal Diamond

Primary

Deadly Amber of Haste

Alternative (to activate the meta gem)

Masterful Peridot of Mastery

Alternative (to activate the meta gem)

Deadly Amber of Haste

Alternative (to activate the meta gem)

Quick Sapphire of Haste

Consumables

Flask

Flask of Tempered Aggression

Potion

Tempered Potion

Healing Potion

Moonshine Healing Potion

Weapon Oil

Algari Mana Oil

Augment Rune

Voidbound Augment Rune

Food

Feast of the Harandir

Leveling

From the very first level you will already have abilities to deal damage. Your main abilities at early levels will be Pyroblast and Fire Blast. As you level up you will gain new abilities, getting closer to the core rotation. We recommend following this ability priority as they become available:

Mythic+ Tips

The Alter Time ability lets you quickly recover after taking large but non-lethal damage. If you realize you are about to take damage, press this ability once before taking the damage and once after.

You can use Shimmer while casting spells if you urgently need to leave the area you are standing in.

Always keep Blazing Barrier active. This ability significantly increases your survivability.

Macros

Cast Spellsteal on focus.

#showtooltip Spellsteal
/cast [@focus,exists] Spellsteal

Cancel Alter Time (for example, if you cast it but do not want to return to your original point).

#showtooltip Alter Time
/cancelaura Alter Time

Cast Remove Curse on cursor

#showtooltip Remove Curse
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][]Remove Curse

Author

Fouren

Fouren has been playing World of Warcraft for over 15 years. He is an active player with 12 Cutting Edge achievements under his belt, and has reached the top 1% and 0.1% multiple times on various classes. His main classes are healers, particularly Holy Paladin.