Fire Mage DPS Easy Mode — 12.1

This build is your best starting point for single-target situations, like Raid encounters. A great benefit of this build is that it is also the same build you can use in AoE situations, meaning you only need to learn one set of talents for all situations.

The build below does not pick up Heat Shimmer, making it so you do not have to track this additional proc, while giving up very little DPS for this reduced complexity.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

The Mythic+ build looks very similar to the Raid build, as the DPS talents are entirely the same. This is because no switches are needed in terms of talents to perform optimal DPS in both AoE and single-target.

This build does swap around some utility spells to provide you with very helpful tools for Mythic+, such as multiple interrupts and dispels.

You can easily import the talent tree below into the game by using the "copy export string" button below.

Our goal is to use our strong DPS cooldowns Combustion and get as many critical strikes and instant cast Pyroblasts as possible. Below, we go over a simplified rotation on achieving this:

1. Delay your first Combustion until the target is below 90% health. (due to Firestarter)
2. Use Combustion when available after your target is below 90% health.
3. While Hyperthermia is active, cast Pyroblast.
4. Cast Meteor during Combustion. It will also come up in-between Combustions, but to keep things simple, I recommend only using it during Combustion.
5. During Combustion, use Fire Blasts and Pyroblasts to generate Heating Up and Hot Streaks. When you run out of Fire Blast charges, use Scorch.
6. Cast Pyroblast when you have Hot Streak.
7. Hard-cast (meaning: non-instant cast) Pyroblast when you have Pyroclasm.
8. Cast Fire Blast to get Hot Streaks when you have Heating Up. Remember: You can cast Fire Blast while casting other spells, so you should cast it during Fireball/ Scorch when it procs, so you can immediately follow the previous cast up with Pyroblast.
9. Cast Scorch as a filler to generate Heating Up / Hot Streak if the target is below 30% health.
10. Cast Fireball as a filler to generate Heating Up / Hot Streak when the target is above 30% health.

On anything less than 4 targets, you should stick to the single-target rotation.

On 4 targets or more, you follow the single-target rotation, with one critical change: Spend Hot Streak and Pyroclasm procs on Flamestrike instead of Pyroblast That's it!

Fire has the following Apex Talent:

• Fired Up: Consuming Hot Streak has a chance to grant you a stack of Fired Up, which increases your fire damage. Multiple applications may overlap.
• Fired Up: Gaining Fired Up reduces your Fire Blast cooldown by 2.5 seconds per point, 2 points.
• Fired Up: Combustion greatly increases the chance of getting Fired Up, reducing each time you proc Fired Up. Also causes Fired Up to extend Combustion by 1 second.

The Apex Talent for Fire grants a lot of damage for both Hero Specs, and is virtually always taken. Fired Up is a new proc which grants a large amount of bonus damage whenever it procs, which is just a very nice passive bonus. However, even more impactful is the massive 5 second Fire Blast cooldown reduction when it procs, which happens quite frequently, especially during Combustion.

This Fire Blast cooldown reduction makes it so you barely run out of Fire Blast charges during Combustion, often only running out towards the very end of Combustion. This allows you to chain Pyroblast into Fire Blast for almost the entire duration of Combustion without needing to weave in any other spells.

All these extra Fire Blast charges do cause a bit of a weird luxury "problem", where it relatively devalues Pyroclasm, because hard-casting Pyroblast during Combustion risks overcapping Fire Blast charges, making it difficult to hard-cast during Combustion. Due to this, you often end up having to delay the hard-casts until Combustion is over.

Our Tier Sets for Season 2 are:

• Mage Fire 12.1 Class Set 2pc: Pyroclasm causes Pyroblast and Flamestrike to always critically strike.
• Mage Fire 12.1 Class Set 4pc: Pyroclasm reduces Pyroblast and Flamestrike cast time by 20% and increases Pyroclasm's damage bonus by 20%.

This tier set focuses entirely on Pyroclasm, making it pretty much a mandatory talent for all builds.

The tier set is incredibly powerful, and you should try to obtain it at any item level possible, as it not only greatly increases your DPS, it also makes the rotation easier by making the hard-casts from Pyroclasm quicker, leaving less room to get it interrupted by having to move.

You will want to prioritize stats as follows for both single-target and AoE as follows. For more information on what's presented on this page, check out our main Stat Priority page.

We recommend you prioritize item levels over specific stats, as they are all close in value, and they fluctuate greatly based on the gear you currently have.

Patch 11.1.7 introduced two new combat related functionalities, the Assisted Highlight, and the Single-Button Assistant. For a full overview on how to enable these features and all of their details, check out our Combat Assistant page.

The Assisted Highlight rotation is a relatively good rotation, so following it can be a good way to learn the rotation, but you will be giving up a decent chunk of damage, around 10-20% compared to following the rotation on this page. Note that Fire is unique in that it can cast spells while using other spells, like Fire Blast. Due to this, seeing the next spell is sometimes not enough, as you need to also know when exactly you should cast it during the current spell. Due to this, I highly recommend you also read the basic rotation when using the Assisted Highlight so you know when to cast the spells that are highlighted.

The Single-Button assistant unfortunately has some issues for Fire, causing it to be around 30-40% less damage than the rotation on this page. The global-cooldown penalty applied is a large issue for Fire, because Fire relies on queueing certain spells at the same time (like Fireball into Pyroblast), which the single-button assistant does not allow you to do. Additionally, Fire simply has very many instant-cast spells, which are also hurt by the global-cooldown penalty, leading to this ~30-40% damage loss when using the Single-Button Assistant.

The Single-Button assistance can be useful, especially when you are new to the spec, or when learning new boss mechanics, as it will allow you to focus fully on the boss mechanics instead of the rotation. However, if you want to maximize your damage, I recommend you either follow the Highlighted rotation, or the rotation on this page due to the Single-Button rotation's 30-40% damage loss.

Note that neither the Single-Button rotation nor the Assisted Highlight rotation will cast/highlight Combustion, racial cooldowns, or items, like trinkets, so you will have to use these manually.

• Make sure to use Combustion on cooldown, as the Combat Assistant will not use/highlight this.
• Use your trinkets, potions, racial cooldowns (like Berserking) or other on-use cooldowns during Combustion.
• If using the One-Button Assistant, make sure to press the button a lot, as Fire Blast can be cast while casting other spells, so you will have to press the button twice to cast both the Fire Blast and the spell after it.