Fire Mage DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Shadowlands 9.2.5

Welcome to our Gearing Page for Fire Mage, this section will cover everything you need to know about equipping your character correctly.

If you have a new piece of gear that you need gems and enchants advice for, you can find everything you need on our dedicated page below.

At this stage in the game, and despite the stat priority, there are so many variables and so many layers of optimization that you can apply to your character, that there is no way for a guide or anything else to tell you exactly what gear you should wear. This is why we always recommend simulating your own character using Raidbots. The website can help you choose set bonuses, Conduits, Legendaries, trinkets and combinations thereof in a way that is tailored completely to your specific character. Learning to use this tool is essential to maximizing your potential, as there is simply no other way to take all the variables into account.

While we heavily recommend simming yourself, you can find some of our general simulations on the dedicated page below.

The easiest way, and also the method we suggest, to compare multiple items is to use Raidbots' Top Gear. Here you can input an export from the Simcraft AddOn, select the items to compare, and it will find out which of the items are best.

With 9.2, every spec now gets a set of gear that gives you additional special powers unique to your spec. For Fire, these are the following:

• Fire Mage 2-Piece — Increases the duration of Combustion by 4 seconds.
• Fire Mage 4-Piece — While Combustion is active your Fire Blast and Phoenix Flames recharge 100% faster.

The 2-set bonus is pretty very small for Fire, but the 4-set bonus is very important and should always be equipped.

The tier pieces can drop from raid bosses in Sepulcher of the First Ones, alongside the Great Vault. One final way to obtain tier set pieces, is via Creation Catalyst. This can be used to turn any non tier item into a tier item. For example, you can get a 265ilvl non-set chest piece from the Great Vault, and turn it into a 265 ilvl tier chest, keeping its upgrade path, sockets and tertiary stats.

There are 5 possible pieces tier sets can drop for, but to activate the bonus power you will only need to equip 4 of them. This means you have some flexibility in what slots to equip the tier pieces in.

Optimising what slot to equip the tier set pieces in is a relatively minor improvement compared to actually getting the 4-set bonus. Never give up the 4-set bonus because it is not in the "perfect" 4 slots.

In a perfect world, with all 5 set pieces available, you would want to craft Sun King's Blessing in the Gloves slot, as this allows you to get slightly more stats out of it. However, it is very likely that you will also need to craft it for Wrists, to allow tier flexibility.

Generally speaking, Sun King's Blessing is the best Legendary for all situations, and should be crafted for the Gloves slot, however, depending on your luck with tier pieces, you might want to craft it on Wrists instead. You will want to craft it with a Missive of Haste and a Missive of Versatility. However, you might have to use other stat missives depending on your personal stat weights. We strongly suggest simming this yourself via Raidbots Top Gear. Generally speaking though, Haste and Versatility are going to be good choices.

Additionally, after 5 weeks of 9.2, you can get Unity to get your Covenant specific Legendary alongside the Legendary above.

After crafting and upgrading Sun King's Blessing, we suggest crafting for more utility or niche Legendaries, like the ones below:

• Temporal Warp (Ring) - Better than Sun King's Blessing in very niche DPS scenarios.
• Grisly Icicle (Head) - Amazing for soloing Torghast and solo content in general.
• Triune Ward (Neck) - Great defensive option when DPS is not relevant or as important.

If you are looking for an in-depth explanation on what Legendary to pick for what situation and how to obtain them, read our Legendary page below.

1. Infernal Cascade
2. Controlled Destruction
3. Discipline of the Grove (Night Fae only) / Siphoned Malice (Venthyr only) / Ire of the Ascended (Kyrian only)
4. Flame Accretion
5. Gift of the Lich (Necrolord only)

1. Infernal Cascade
2. Master Flame
3. Discipline of the Grove (Night Fae only) / Siphoned Malice (Venthyr only) / Ire of the Ascended (Kyrian only) / Gift of the Lich (Necrolord only)
4. Controlled Destruction
5. Flame Accretion

For more info regarding which Conduits to pick for each situation, check our full Covenants, Soulbinds & Conduits page.

Shards of Domination do not work in Shadowlands Mythic+ Season 4 or Sanctum of Domination. You may safely ignore them.

Patch 9.0.5 reintroduced the Valor currency. For more information on where to get Valor from, how it works, weekly caps and more, see our Valor page.

Fire Mages do not have any key items from Mythic+ like some other specs do. So, what is best to upgrade will mostly be determined by what item slots are currently the worst. The easiest way to figure out what is best for your specific character is by using Raidbots' Droptimizer. You can select "+10 Weekly Chest" as a stand-in for the highest item level Valor upgrade. The only exception is for trinkets. If you cannot or do not want to do PvP for Unchained Gladiator's Badge of Ferocity, we strongly suggest upgrading an on-use trinket from Mythic+. Below we have listed some suggested items you might consider upgrading first, however, as written earlier, it is strongly suggested to use simulations to figure out what to upgrade.

1. Inscrutable Quantum Device if you do not plan to get Unchained Gladiator's Badge of Ferocity.

With season 4 of Shadowlands, Hyperthread Wristwraps are returning. This gives you 10 seconds worth of Fire Blast cooldown back, buffed to 15 seconds if you are using the Fire Mage 4-Piece bonus.

The effect is very strong, however, it is a bit weaker than it was in Battle For Azeroth, as instead of having it buffed 100% (via Memory of Lucid Dreams), it is "only" buffed 50% by the Fire Mage 4-Piece. Additionally, Sun King's Blessing means we have more bursts of power than just every two minutes. Lastly, since it occupies the Wrist slot, it means Sun King's Blessing must be crafted on Gloves to be able to use both. This causes you less flexibility with where to put your Tier pieces, and ends up with worse itemisation than possible if you use Sun King's Blessing on Wrists.

The conclusion: Hyperthread Wristwraps are a tiny DPS increase over an otherwise optimal setup, but depending on your available gear it can actually be a small DPS decrease as well. Make sure you sim yourself to figure out if it is a DPS upgrade for you. Additionally, you could also just pick whether or not you prefer the playstyle of having an additional item to use in your rotation.

Due to the prevalence of high item level trinkets from Raiding, World bosses, Mythic+ and PvP, there are a variety of suitable options when it comes to trinkets. It is always best to use Raidbots Top Gear to determine what your optimal trinkets are.

You should generally try to aim for one on-use trinket that gives a lot of stats, and one passive trinket. This is because Fire relies a lot on burst DPS, due to cooldown stacking with Rune of Power and Combustion. This is less important when running Night Fae and Kindling, as you will be bursting much more often and your trinket will most likely be desynced from your cooldowns.

You can use the trinket list below as a reference of potential trinkets to aim for. The link at the bottom can be used to view a list of all trinkets.

Soul Igniter is a trinket that works slightly differently from other trinkets. Unlike other trinkets, it can be used immediately after another trinket. This allows you to use the trinket right after you use a different on-use trinket, e.g. Unchained Gladiator's Badge of Ferocity. Due to this, you can activate your other on-use trinket first, and immediately after activate Soul Igniter. It is worth noting that the cooldown of Soul Igniter does not begin until you re-activate it, or it expires. Due to this, if you are running 1-minute Mage (via Kindling + being Night Fae), you will want to re-activate Soul Igniter immediately to trigger the cooldown so the cooldown stays synced with Combustion.

The macro below will first activate Soul Igniter, and on a second press fire it. Since you want to shoot it very quickly upon activating it, you can use this macro to quickly cast and shoot it.

• #showtooltip
• /use soul igniter
• /cancelaura soul ignition

Shadowlands Season 4 introduced Fated Raids, which is a mechanic that marks one of the three raid tiers of the expansion as "Fated" for a week, causing that raid to drop higher item level loot, up to 304 or 311 item level depending on the item. Which raid is Fated rotates every week.

Due to this, your goal in Season 4 is to collect a full set of Fated gear, as this is higher level than the previously best available gear.

With the new Fated Raids, a new "currency" is also added: Puzzling Cartel Dinar. This new item can be obtained from a quest chain that requires you to kill a specific amount of bosses. You can only get 3 of these Dinars for the entirety of Season 4, with the first one obtainable after 3 weeks at the earliest, and the last one after 6 weeks at the earliest. These Dinars let you buy a variety of trinkets, weapons and other special items from any of the Shadowlands raids. As you can only get 3 of these in total, it is important to only spend these on strong items, and to only spend them on items that do not have a wide variety of alternative items.

Which items exactly you want to purchase will depend on your level of patience, which raid content your group is clearing, your luck, etc. Below we have listed some good candidates:

• Elegy of the Eternals
• The First Sigil
• Antumbra, Shadow of the Cosmos

Lastly, since Season 4, you can upgrade your Normal and Heroic items to Mythic items. For exactly how this works, please see our Fated Raids page. However, the important thing to keep in mind with this system is, if you loot a very good item at a lower difficulty than what you are able to do, do not throw away the item just because it is too low item level, as you can upgrade it to Mythic item level eventually.

Below we have an example of a set of endgame gear, based around how realistic it is to obtain these items. It is more important than ever to realise that due to the extremely large pool of available items from Fated Raids and Mythic+, a best-in-slot list is practically impossible to be computed, and due to the randomness of what you might obtain, items listed below might not be the best items for you, depending on the items you have available. Mythic+ items listed especially might be nearly impossible to obtain from The Great Vault due to the vast amount of possible items from the Great Vault. Due to this, it is generally more feasible to get them via upgrading with Valor. However, items upgraded with Valor might not be best in slot anymore due to their slightly lower item level. All of this is to say, it is much more reliable to sim yourself using Raidbots Top Gear instead of trying to follow a predetermined best in slot list.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Erudite Occultist's Hood	Anduin Wrynn in Sepulcher of the First Ones
Neck	Worldkiller Iris	The Jailer in Sepulcher of the First Ones
Shoulder	Erudite Occultist's Mantle	Lords of Dread in Sepulcher of the First Ones
Cloak	Crest of the Legionnaire General	Stone Legion Generals in Castle Nathria
Chest	Erudite Occultist's Robes	Rygelon in Sepulcher of the First Ones
Wrists	Hyperthread Wristwraps (or: Grim-Veiled Bracers with Sun King's Blessing)	Operation: Mechagon - Junkyard Mythic+ (or: Crafted Legendary, with Sun King's Blessing using Missive of Haste and Missive of Versatility)
Gloves	Grim-Veiled Mittens with Sun King's Blessing (or: Bindings of the Banished One if using Sun King's Blessing on Wrists)	Crafted Legendary, with Sun King's Blessing using Missive of Haste and Missive of Versatility (or: The Jailer in Sepulcher of the First Ones)
Belt	Erudite Occultist's Cord	Crafted via Creation Catalyst in Zereth Mortis
Legs	Erudite Occultist's Leggings	Vigilant Guardian in Sepulcher of the First Ones
Boots	Grim-Veiled Sandals with Unity	Crafted Legendary, with Unity using Missive of Haste and Missive of Versatility
Ring #1	Logic Loop of Division	The Great Vault (or Valor upgraded from Operation: Mechagon - Junkyard Mythic+)
Ring #2	Overclocking Bit Band	The Great Vault (or Valor upgraded from Operation: Mechagon - Workshop Mythic+)
Main-hand + Off-hand	Antumbra, Shadow of the Cosmos + Forbidden Truth	Rygelon + The Jailer in Sepulcher of the First Ones (or Puzzling Cartel Dinar)
Trinket 1	Elegy of the Eternals	Prototype Pantheon in Sepulcher of the First Ones (or Puzzling Cartel Dinar)
Trinket 2	The First Sigil	Prototype Pantheon in Sepulcher of the First Ones (or Puzzling Cartel Dinar)