Introduction to the Fire Mage
The Fire specialisation is brilliant at delivering both burst and sustained damage on a variety of fight types. Fire cleaves efficiently on stacked targets. Fire really shines on fights where a multitude of stacked targets all have equal or high priority.
Like all Mage specialisations, Fire has high mobility and is fantastic at doing encounter specific jobs and baiting mechanics. Overall, Fire is performing very well in a lot of situations, which makes it a great choice to play in all content.
Below you will find a beginners guide to the Fire Mage, you can click on highlighted abilities, for a more in depth description of them.
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Fire Mage
Strengths
- Outstanding cleave damage without giving up any single target damage
- Great burst DPS, making it great at nuking down high priority adds quickly
- Loses very little DPS from movement
Weaknesses
- No spread cleave or multidot capability
- Cleave is automatic, making damage stops on stacked targets practically impossible without stopping dps.
Talents
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Rotation of the Fire Mage
The basic rotation for the Fire Mage is as follows:
- Place
Rune of Power
- Cast
Meteor
- Cast
Combustion when it is off cooldown
- Place
Rune of Power if it has 2 charges
- Cast
Pyroblast when you have a
Hot Streak proc
- Use
Dragon’s Breath if
Combustion is active
- Cast
Fire Blast when you have
Heating Up
- Cast
Fireball to generate
Heating Up
- Use
Scorch if you have to move and have no instant casts to burn
You can use the recommended Addon ConRo for help with your rotation, it can be found in our Addons Guide here
Cooldowns
Combustion is a DPS cooldown. It lasts 10 seconds, and increases your Mastery
Time Warp increases Haste by 30% for 40 seconds for all party and raid members.
Stat Priority
The stat priority for Fire Mage is:
- Haste
- Versatility
- Mastery
- Critical Strike
- Intellect

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