Fire Mage guide

Caster DPS. Fire stacks Improved Scorch and Ignite, turns crits and Fire Blasts into fast Pyroblasts with Heating Up (called Hot Streak earlier in the beta), and uses Combustion for burst. Forever's Frostfire Bolt is a level 40 Fire spell that counts as both frost and fire, checks the lower resistance and adds a DoT and slow; Accelerant speeds it up just like Fireball. Incineration, now in the first row, boosts Fire Blast and Scorch crit, and Ice Lance and Arcane Blast too.

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Stat priority

1. Hit (to cap)
2. Spell Power
3. Fire Damage
4. Critical Strike
5. Intellect
6. Spirit

Opener

1. Scorch: Stack Improved Scorch to 5; it only boosts your own Fire damage
2. Pyroblast: Hard-cast opener before the pull
3. Fireball: Start the main nuke (Frostfire Bolt on fire-resistant targets)

Single target

1. Scorch: Refresh Improved Scorch before 30 sec
2. Fireball: Main nuke: 425 to 541 base damage at rank 12, far more than Frostfire Bolt
3. Frostfire Bolt: Use instead of Fireball on fire-resistant targets; lower damage but adds a DoT and slow
4. Fire Blast: Instant while moving; every hit adds a Heating Up stack

Several targets

1. Blast Wave: On cooldown
2. Flamestrike: Only one can be active at a time; Improved Flamestrike adds crit
3. Arcane Explosion: Point-blank filler

Cooldowns

1. Combustion: Crit ramp until 3 non-periodic Fire crits
2. Presence of Mind: Instant Pyroblast if talented
3. Evocation: Mana recovery

Key talents

• Heating Up
• Ignite
• Improved Scorch
• Combustion
• Critical Mass
• Fire Power
• Accelerant
• Master of Elements
• Incineration
• Improved Fire Blast
• Pyroblast
• Blast Wave
• Burning Soul

What Forever changed

Frostfire Bolt is a new level 40 Fire spell: it hits the lower of frost or fire resist, adds a DoT and slows. Accelerant, which replaced Improved Fireball in a late October build, speeds up Fireball, Frostfire Bolt and Arcane Wrath, and Incineration adds crit to Scorch, Fire Blast and even Ice Lance and Arcane Blast. Heating Up (called Hot Streak earlier in the beta; tier 4, needs Pyroblast) makes each Fireball, Frostfire Bolt, Fire Blast or Scorch crit cut your next Pyroblast's cast time by 25% within 20 sec, stacking 3 times, and every Fire Blast that deals damage adds a stack too. Improved Fire Blast now adds up to 15 yards to Fire Blast's range, Critical Mass has 3 ranks for up to 6% crit, and Fire Power is reworked: 1% to 3% more Fire damage for each of your Fire effects on the target, up to 12%.

Tips

• On fire-resistant bosses, Frostfire Bolt uses the lower resistance of the two schools.
• Burning Soul protects casts from pushback and cuts fire threat.
• Master of Elements refunds mana on fire and frost crits, making crit a mana stat too.
• Heating Up stacks last 20 sec: after a Fire Blast and a crit or two, cast Pyroblast before they fall off.

Other Mage specs: Arcane, Frost

Data from the WoW Forever client, build 1.60.1.70938, extracted 2026-11-13.