Fire Mage DPS Mythic+ Tips — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Fire Mage has long been known as a powerhouse when it comes to Mythic+. Not only does it come with a great damage profile, where you generally do not have to give up much, or any, single-target damage to do AoE damage, it also comes with great utility and survivability, making it a very desirable spec to bring to any Mythic+ group.

Fire generally has 2 main playstyles in Mythic+, a Flamestrike based AoE playstyle, where your main spender of Hot Streak is Flamestrike, or a Cleave based playstyle, where your Hot Streaks are used on Pyroblast. Both builds are generally viable, with the Flamestrike variant doing more overall DPS and the cleave build doing more single-target and priority-target DPS.

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Best Mythic+ Talents for Fire Mage

Frostfire Mythic+ Talents Sunfury Mythic+ Talents Flexible Talents / Dungeon Specific Talents

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Frostfire Mythic+ Talents

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Sunfury Mythic+ Talents

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Flexible Talents / Dungeon Specific Talents

• Swap in/out of Remove Curse for any defensive talent of your choice when there are no Curses to dispel in the dungeon, you plan to do, or if someone else will handle the dispelling.
• Swap in/out of Spellsteal for any defensive talent of your choice when there are no buffs worth dispelling in the dungeon you plan to do.
• Take Ring of Frost or Ice Nova if you need any more crowd-control, at the cost of any of your defensives.
• Opt out of Ice Cold (and the nodes leading to it) for any defensive nodes of your choosing if you need the immunity of Ice Block for the dungeon you are doing.
• Swap out of Mass Invisibility into Barrier Diffusion if you do not need Mass Invisibility to skip any packs.

The main reason to bring a Fire Mage to a Mythic+ group is for its damage, but aside from that, it also has some very valuable utility, which makes every Mythic+ group want at least one Mage:

• Arcane Intellect is a big boost for both the other caster DPS in the group, as well as additional healing for the healer.
• Time Warp is a required cooldown for any Mythic+ group.
• Remove Curse can be useful to dispel Curses in some dungeons.
• A Mage can add a lot of crowd control in the form of Dragon's Breath, Polymorph, Ice Nova and Ring of Frost.
• Spellsteal can be useful in some dungeons to remove dangerous buffs from enemy targets. Sometimes, it can also be used as a big DPS boost for the Mage by Spellstealing beneficial buffs that increase your damage.
• Mass Invisibility can be very useful to skip certain packs.
• Energized Barriers can be used to remove snare effects.
• Ice Block can be used to remove certain debuffs or cancel certain enemy spells if you are targeted.

Spellsteal and Remove Curse are utility spells which can either be incredibly important, or completely useless, depending on the dungeon and affixes you are doing. Below we highlight which dungeons and affixes require you to have these talents, and which ones you can skip.

Additionally, we will also list a couple of other spells that can be useful in Mythic+. These are Ice Block (by unspeccing Ice Cold) to immune certain effects to remove critical debuffs, and Energized Barriers, which can be used to remove snare effects.

Note: usually Ice Block can be used to immune many things in many dungeons, but we only list the ones where Ice Block is the only way to immune/cancel an important effect in the dungeon, since the opportunity cost of not taking Ice Cold is quite high.

Dungeons	Affixes
Eco-Dome Al'dani	Xal'atath's Bargain: Ascendant
Ara-Kara, City of Echoes	Xal'atath's Bargain: Voidbound
The Dawnbreaker	Xal'atath's Bargain: Pulsar
Priory of the Sacred Flame	Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour
Operation: Floodgate
Halls of Atonement
Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder
Tazavesh: So'leah's Gambit

Based on the selections above, you should run the following class talents:

• Spellsteal
• Remove Curse
• Ice Block (unspec Ice Cold)
• Energized Barriers

The AoE rotation outlined in the Rotation Page below is a perfect fit for Mythic+ content.

This section has Mage-specific tips for dealing with the various affixes of Mythic+. If you want general guides for each of our Dungeons or Mythic+ in general, check out our dedicated page below.