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World of Warcraft: Forever Fire Mage Guide

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Welcome to our Fire Mage Ranged DPS guide for WoW Forever, tailored for PvE content. Here, you will learn how all you need to know to play the Mage class as Fire Ranged DPS. Click the links #below to navigate the guide or read this page for a short introduction.

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1. Fire Mage Guide for World of Warcraft: Forever 2. Fire Mage Breakdown 3. Best Racial Options for Fire Mage

Fire Mage Guide for World of Warcraft: Forever

Fire Mages are the quintessential offensive spellcaster in World of Warcraft Forever. This specialization embodies the "glass cannon" archetype - extremely high damage potential with few defenses. In Forever, key new talents elevate the volatile, high-octane experience of playing Fire Mage.

Ignite remains as a central pillar of the Fire Mage talent tree, setting enemies ablaze for additional damage any time the Fire Mage scores a Critical hit. New talents like Heating Up and Improved Fire Blast allow you do massive damage with Pyroblast since Fire Blast has a guaranteed chance of generating a stack of Heating Up. If RNG is favorable, the Fire Mage can hurl out massive Pyroblasts nearly instantaneously. Fire Mages in Forever are masters of bursty area-effect damage, bathing the battlefield in flames with abilities like Blast Wave and Flamestrike.

Forever also opens up new gameplay avenues through the addition of Frostfire Bolt. This spell not only double-dips from Mage talents in both the Fire and Frost trees, it provides Fire Mages with a way to effectively damage Fire-Immune or Resistant enemies.

Consistent High Damage

Fire Mages are built for one purpose: maximum damage. Luckily in WoW Forever, the spec's been overhauled to mitigate a complete reliance on scoring Critical Strikes in order to do damage. With the addition Heating Up and Fire Blast guaranteeing a stack of Heating Up, the days of feast-or-famine gameplay has been reduced. The Fire Mage's damage suffers somewhat at low levels or with weak gear, but scales extremely well over time.

Unreliable and Fun

Speccing directly into Fire is a less than optimized Mage leveling specialization in WoW Forever. The best way to play Fire while leveling is starting in the Arcane Tree with Missile Barrage and Arcane Blast, then moving into the fire tree. With the addition Heating Up and Fire Blast guaranteeing a stack of Heating Up, Fire has some serious damage output. Unfortunately, without talents such as Arcane Meditation and Mage Armor trained at Level 34, you will be stuck drinking after nearly every mob.

However, that does not mean that leveling as a Fire Mage is a waste of time. Pulling single enemies with Pyroblast and letting them suffer from the DoT component of the spell still dishes out respectable amounts of damage. A lucky Critical Strike triggers Ignite and will just delete enemies within seconds. The AoE leveling potential of Fire is also respectable, as Flamestrike and Blast Wave dish out huge amounts of damage and can, of course, be combined with Arcane Explosion, Cone of Cold and Frost Nova.

Juggling With Flames

Fire Mages are exceptional at both single target burst or destroying groups of enemies. A Fire Mage is a great addition to any Dungeon group, especially with Fire's AoE spells Flamestrike and Blast Wave. These abilites deal substantial area-effect damage, though if you get lucky with Critical Strikes, Ignite can quickly overtake a Tank in threat. As a Fire Mage, you have to be on your toes and have Frost Nova or Blink available.

Vending Machine, Open Trade?

As already mentioned in the Dungeon information Mage spec, your ability to provide water, food, buffs, crowd-control and portals to the group, is highly sought-after. Fire Mages can easlily kite away from enemies with blink, immobilize or kite them with Frost Nova, Cone of Cold, and Blast Wave or turn them into sheep with Polymorph. If all that fails and you still get hit, Mana Shield can shield you from damage. Against casters you have Counterspell and Dampen Magic order to take even less damage.

Don't Blink You Might Miss!

Without any DoTs, Fire Blast, Cone of Cold, and Blast Wave are basically our only tools to continue DPS while moving. Since Fire Mages are Mana-reliant Blink can be rather expensive as it uses 35% of your base mana. You will have to decide if you have enough mana to last until the end of the encounter or if you will have to sacrifice time moving manually. If used at the right time, you may just blink to the desired position in one Global Cooldown, while other classes need to be running for 3 seconds.

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Fire Mage Breakdown

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2.1.

Class Balance

Fire Mage is in a great position when it comes to Class Balance. With the rework of Heating Up, Fire Blast, and Fire Power deep Fire is looking to be the highest DPS Spec for Mage in Phase 1 of WoW Forever. We are able to spec into either deep Fire or a Frostfire Bolt spec. In addition, the Enchant Weapon - Revelation fundamentally changes how the class is played in both single and multi-target situations. For example: Normally Flamestrike is almost never worth using on cooldown during AOE as it can suffer pushback or enemies can move out of it's effect. With the revelation enchant, EVERY single tick on EVERY single mob has a chance to proc the enchant. Meaning that nearly every single GCD is guaranteed to crit if you have enough mobs in the flamestrike AOE. Including this interaction, Fire feels extremely well balanced and will perform very well in raids, group content, and high level content.

2.2.

Utility

One of the most convenient parts of being a Mage is the amount of built in Utility the Class has. Let's take Conjure Water for example: Rank 1 of Conjure Water is trained at Level 4 and conjures Level 1 water. Rank 2 of Conjure Water is trained at Level 10 and conjures Level 5 water. Rank 3 of Conjure Water is trained at Level 20 and conjures Level 15 water. Rank 4 of Conjure Water is trained at Level 30 and conjures Level 25 water. Rank 5 of Conjure Water is trained at Level 40 and conjures Level 35 water. Rank 6 of Conjure Water is trained at Level 50 and conjures Level 45 water. Rank 7 of Conjure Water is trained at Level 60 and conjures Level 55 water. Reminder: When each new rank is trained, you start by conjuring only 2 water increased by 2 every level until a full stack of 20 is produced. Rank 7 Conjure Water has been updated to produce 10 water per cast.

Another useful Utility Mage posesses is the Conjure Mana Agate ability among other Mana Gems. for example: Conjure Mana Agate is trained at Level 28 and conjures a Mana Agate that restores 375 to 425 Mana. Conjure Mana Jade is trained at Level 38 and conjures a Mana Jade that restores 550 to 650 Mana. Conjure Mana Citrine is trained at Level 48 and conjures a Mana Citrine that restores 775 to 925 Mana. Conjure Mana Ruby is trained at Level 58 and conjures a Mana Ruby that restores 1,000 to 1,200 Mana.

2.3.

Teleport and Portals

Perhaps the most Iconic ability in all of World of Warcraft are portals such as Portal: Stormwind or Portal: Orgrimmar.

At Level 20 every mage learns their two Mage Trainer accessible teleports depending on their Faction: Alliance: Teleport: Stormwind and Teleport: Ironforge Horde: Teleport: Orgrimmar and Teleport: Undercity At Level 30 every mage learns the non-Mage Trainer accessible teleport depending on their Faction: Alliance: Teleport: Darnassus Horde: Teleport: Thunder Bluff At Level 40 every mage learns their three Mage Potals at their Cities Respective Portal Trainers: Alliance: Portal: Stormwind, Portal: Ironforge, Portal: Darnassus Horde: Portal: Orgrimmar, Portal: Undercity, Portal: Thunder Bluff.

Best Racial Options for Fire Mage

Horde
- Troll is the general best pick for Horde. Troll is exceptional in short fights under a minute due to Berserking. On Beast encounters, Troll stays at the top regardless of fight lenth.
- Undead has been buffed with Touch of the Grave, making Undead strong on longer fights. On fights over two minutes, Undead might be the go-to race for Horde.
- Orc went from the BEST to the WORST race for Mage. Orc no longer has 1% crit which drops them in early raid tiers, as time goes on their Blood Fury scaling might bring them back to the top.

Alliance
- Gnome is the go-to race for shorter fights(pun intended). The combination of Eureka! and other cooldowns allow Gnomes to do absurd amouts of burst damage.
- Skyborne is the best race in the game when it comes to long encounters. Read Ley Line and Wind Blessed pair perfectly with Mage's 100% Spirit based Mana regeneration. In addition, Elemental Insight makes the the highest damage race against Elementals.
- Human is almost identical to Skyborn in that they are exceptional at long fights. With Mage's 100% Spirit based Mana regeneration, a Human Mage can outlast every other race on long fights. On 5+ minute encounters Human Mage's will come out on top.

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This guide has been written by Farmerfarms, a Rank 1 Mage in Season of Discovery and a Rank 1 Speed Kill Mage in TBC Anniversary. He specializes in Mage theorycrafting, class optimization, and discovering new strategies to push the limits of Classic WoW. Through his guides and content, he aims to turn his findings into practical knowledge that helps the wider community improve their gameplay.