Fire Mage Legion: Remix Guide — The War Within (11.2.5)

Welcome to our Legion Remix Guide for Fire Mage! Here we will cover everything you need to know about getting the most out of your Fire Mage in the Patch 11.2.5 special feature, Legion: Remix.

This page is entirely dedicated to playing Fire Mage in the new event. If you want to know more about Legion Remix in general, for example how it works and what rewards you can earn, you can check out our dedicated Legion Remix page!

In Legion Remix you will have to pick one of five paths in your Artifact Weapon to spend your Infinite Power on. These five trees each have their own unique active ability as well as multiple passives that increase your damage, healing, or survivability. Below are a few recommendations depending on your playstyle, but keep in mind that you can freely respec these trees without any downsides, so I highly recommend you try out any tree that looks interesting or fun to you.

For Solo Players: After obtaining enough Infinite Knowledge to make it to Storm Surger / Brewing Storm in the Storm tree, I highly recommend swapping to this tree. Not only does it provide some of the best overall damage, the Storm Surger / Brewing Storm node is incredible to pick up as a caster, as it allows you to freely cast while moving at all times, which means you can kite any enemy perfectly without losing damage. Either choice is a good pick up, with Storm Surger being preferred if you enjoy constantly moving (even when you do not have to), whereas Brewing Storm is better for maximizing your damage output, if you stand still more often. Until you reach enough Infinite Knowledge to pick up these nodes, you can either just start out with Storm for high damage, or go for Nature or Arcane for a more balanced approach with a bit more survivability.

For Duo-ing: When teaming up with one other player, having a combination of Fel and either Storm or Arcane works best. The player talenting into the Fel tree will apply Fel Touched to enemies, while the Arcane and Storm damage deals increased damage against Fel Touched enemies, something you cannot benefit from by yourself. Since Storm is very useful as a caster, we recommend picking, this and having your partner pick Fel for maximum damage output. If you are playing with another caster who also prefers Storm, either both of you can just play Storm, or you can go Fel, as it is similar damage, and losing the mobility is not that impactful when duo-ing since you can generally stand still more.

For Group Play: When doing 5-man dungeons, Storm does incredible AoE damage, while providing great utility by allowing you to move while casting. If your group does not have anyone playing Fel, but multiple players in Storm or Arcane, going with Fel will probably yield your group the most overall damage.

Here's a quick overview of each of the trees:

• Storm: Our go-to due to its ability to allow you to move while casting, while providing great damage, especially on AoE. Tempest Wrath, especially combined with the other major talents can quickly destroy entire packs.
• Fel: This is a purely damage-focused tree, allowing you to summon a Dreadlord with Twisted Crusade that will summon a Rain of Fire to deal damage in an area. With the capstone you can re-use this ability for a massive amount of AoE burst around the Dreadlords location. It also provides debuffs on enemies via Fel Touched which provides benefits not just to yourself, but also others.
• Nature: This tree offers strong damage procs, while the active ability Call of the Forest shields you as well as dealing moderate AoE damage to targets in front of you. The tree provides a large survivability boost, not just to yourself, but also anyone else you play with. Generally you will not need this survivability as much as a ranged class with great crowd-control, so it is more of a group utility tree as a Fire Mage.
• Arcane: This tree mixes survivability and DPS, but only if you can stand still in combat. It's active ability, Naran's Everdisc, deals massive AoE damage to targets in front of you, and you can benefit from this up to 3 times if you catch the orb as it returns to you.
• Holy: This tree is a bit more healing-oriented, which can provide helpful, especially if you choose to face-tank enemies instead of kite or crowd-control them. Its active ability Vindicator's Judgment will deal massive AoE damage and healing, while its passives will provide regular procs of healing to yourself or party members if you team up with other players

Below you will find our recommended leveling build and talent pickup order for your Fire Mage in Legion Remix. Depending on how you choose to level up you will want to make some changes, i.e. if you decide to just do a variety of quests, or want to mostly level in dungeons, so we have listed builds for all activities.

Please keep in mind that this Leveling section is specific to Legion Remix. For our The War Within Leveling Guide for Fire Mage, you can head to the page below.

Since Legion Remix is the perfect opportunity to level classes you haven't played before, we wanted to keep things as simple as possible for those learning the spec. Simply use the slider to select your level to learn a little bit more about how and when to use the abilities you just unlocked.

Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!

When using our slider, note that some talents may appear sooner than you expect them to in the rotation. This is due to the differences in the recommended builds above, each taking talents at slightly different times, and sometimes entirely different talents.

Depending on your chosen Artifact Path, you will have access to different abilities. All of the Artifact abilities are very strong, so you will want to use them whenever they are off cooldown.

Starting at Level 1, you only have one main attack ability: Frostbolt.

1. Make sure you keep Arcane Intellect up at all times. Keep in mind, if you die, you have to re-cast it. Otherwise just cast it once per hour.
2. Cast Time Warp when you are about to go into a big pull or boss fight. Keep in mind, you can only gain the benefit once every 10 minutes, even though the cooldown is 5 minutes.
3. During Hyperthermia, cast Pyroblast.
4. Use Fire Blast on cooldown.
5. Cast Arcane Explosion when there are 3 or more targets.
6. Cast Combustion when it is ready and you have at least a couple of charges of Fire Blast and Phoenix Flames.
7. Cast Pyroblast when you have Hot Streak.
8. Cast Fire Blast when you have Heating Up to get Hot Streak.
9. Cast Scorch when you have Heat Shimmer to generate Heating Up if you do not have Hot Streak.
10. Cast Phoenix Flames to generate Heating Up if you do not have Hot Streak.
11. Cast Scorch as your filler when the enemy target is below 30% health.
12. Cast Fireball as your filler.