Mage Hero Talents — The War Within (11.1.5)

This page is specifically about Hero Talents in The War Within. If you want to learn more about the best regular talents for Fire Mage, check out our Talents page:

Frostfire is currently the best performing Hero Talent spec for Raiding. However, it does come at the cost of being more difficult to play optimally compared to Sunfury. If you want an easier playstyle with a slightly lower maximum DPS, Sunfury is recommended.

Sunfury, especially combined with Unleashed Inferno is currently better than Frostfire when it comes to Mythic+ performance. Frostfire can be played if you want to focus primarily on boss damage, but for overall Mythic+ performance Sunfury performs better.

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Best Hero Talent Builds for Fire Mage

Sunfury Hero Talent Build Frostfire Hero Talent Build

Sunfury currently has one setup for all situations, as it simply provides the best DPS in both AoE and single-target situations.

Frostfire currently has one setup for all situations, as it simply provides the best DPS in both AoE and single-target situations.

Sunfury has a couple of meaningful changes on your rotation. Specifically, when Combustion ends, you automatically gain Hyperthermia. During Hyperthermia, you spam Pyroblast the entire time. Additionally, during Hyperthermia, you still want to keep up Feel the Burn. You want to only press Fire Blast when you have Heating Up, not when you have Hot Streak. Even though Hyperthermia makes all Pyroblasts instant, it still benefits from the Hot Streak Mastery: Ignite damage bonus, which is why you want to time your Fire Blasts around generating additional Hot Streaks.

Additionally, Glorious Incandescence makes Fire Blast hit multiple targets. This makes it so that a single Fire Blast can provide you an entire Hot Streak from scratch. Additionally, Kindling cooldown reduction is significantly increased, since Fire Blast hits multiple targets at the same time, causing you more Combustions.

Frostfire is largely a passive Hero Talent tree. However, it does come with an additional proc you want to track, namely Frostfire Empowerment. When you get Frostfire Empowerment, you want to cast Frostfire Bolt. During Combustion, you simply use it as you would a Scorch or Phoenix Flames. Outside of Combustion, nothing really changes as Frostfire Bolt is already your main filler spell, so you will automatically use the proc.