Fire Mage DPS Easy Mode — The War Within (11.2.5)

This build is a great starting point for pure single-target situations.

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

For a more detailed approach to the best talents, check out our in-depth Talent page below.

The tree below is a tree focused on doing cleave and AoE damage. It is not only incredibly good at doing AoE, it also requires no changes to the rotation, so you only have to focus on learning the single-target rotation and automatically get a completely optimal AoE rotation as well!

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. During Hyperthermia, cast Pyroblast.
2. Cast Shifting Power when you have no Fire Blast stacks remaining and are not currently inside Combustion.
3. Use Combustion when available.
4. During Combustion, use Fire Blasts to convert Heating Up to Hot Streak until you are out of Fire Blasts, after which you should use Phoenix Flames to convert Heating Up to Hot Streak.
5. Cast Pyroblast when you have Hot Streak.
6. Cast Fireball as a filler to generate Heating Up. When the enemy reaches 30% Health or lower, replace Fireball with Scorch (because of Searing Touch).
7. Use Fire Blast to get Hot Streaks when you have Heating Up.

In AoE, you use the same rotation as you do on single-target and let Mastery: Ignite do all of the work for you in terms of AoE damage.

Keep in mind that this is a simplified rotation. If you want to learn how to get the most out of your character, check out our full rotation page below.

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 to use, 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.