Fire Mage Leveling Guide from 1 to 90 — Midnight Season 1

Fire Mage, is relatively strong at outdoor content, when you are able to do massive pulls during Combustion and quickly kill all enemies. However, it struggles if enemies are spread out, as Fire takes a little while to start doing its damage properly, and Fire is not very good at swapping targets often. Unfortunately, these same downsides apply to dungeons as well, as leveling dungeons often are fast with enemies dying quickly. Due to this, the best course of leveling is usually to simply do quests.

If this is your first character, or you simply want to find out more about leveling in WoW in general, we got you covered!

When leveling up, always choose the piece of loot with the highest item level. The only exception to this rule is if you have a Ring or Necklace with a slightly lower item level, but 2 secondary stats on it instead of 1.

When using Heirloom items, I generally recommend simply running 2x Swift Hand of Justice. It provides useful sustain, allowing you to chainpull, and makes it so you do not need to worry about replacing Trinkets while leveling.

For the other Heirlooms, I recommend using Haste items across the board. Versatility is a safe second stat when picking between multiple Haste items.

For more info on Heirlooms, find out more in our dedicated guide!

Below, you can see the suggested levelling talent build and the order in which to pick the talents while levelling.

The below build is good for both outdoor content and dungeon content.

If you are just starting your journey into Midnight, we have a Level 80 import string for you. You can follow the point-by-point allocation of the below tree once you start gaining levels in Midnight.

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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. Cast Pyroblast during Hyperthermia. (the proc you get after Combustion ends when specced into Memory of Al'ar.
4. Use Fire Blast on cooldown.
5. Cast Meteor whenever it is ready. If Combustion is coming up soon, delay Meteor until Combustion and then use it during Combustion.
6. Cast Combustion when it is ready and you have at least a couple of charges of Fire Blast.
7. Cast Pyroblast when you have Hot Streak.
8. Cast Scorch when Heat Shimmer procs and you do not have Hot Streak.
9. Cast Pyroblast when you have Hot Streak while fighting 1-3 targets.
10. Cast Flamestrike when you have Hot Streak while fighting 4 or more targets.
11. Cast Fire Blast when you have Heating Up to get Hot Streak.
12. Cast Scorch as your filler when the target is below 30% health.
13. Cast Fireball as your filler.

In this section we will rank the PvP talents best for leveling and doing solo / small group PvE content.

1. Glass Cannon gives you a significant damage buff. The reduced health is usually not a problem in open-world content.
2. Ring of Fire puts up a relatively large circle that burns enemies who walk into the outer part of the circle, doing significant damage.
3. Greater Pyroblast is a very hard-hitting spell, especially on high-health enemies, and it will greatly increase your damage against high-health enemies, like world bosses or rares.

In this section I highlight some consumables that can be useful when leveling in Midnight. These will focus primarily on speed. Both your movement speed, and of course your actual DPS.

• Enchant Boots - Scout's March — Boots Speed Enchant. Requires level 70.
• Enchant Cloak - Chant of Burrowing Rapidity — Cloak Speed Enchant. Requires level 70.
• Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Speed — Bracers Speed Enchant. Requires level 70.

• Exquisitely Eviscerated Muscle — Provides a large amount of speed. Requires level 75.
• Fried Bonefish or Bear Tartare — Older speed buffs, which might be useful if they are much cheaper or you happen to have them leftover from previous expansions. Most of these require level 55.