Fire Mage DPS Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within Pre-Patch
On this page, you will find the best gear and best in slot items for your Fire Mage in World of Warcraft The War Within Pre-Patch.
If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Fire Mage gear and best in slot.
Gearing an Fire Mage
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 for which you need gems and enchant advice, you can find everything on our dedicated page below.
Best in Slot Gear for Raiding
BiS Gear for Fire Mage
BiS List for Fire Mage
This list contains the highest DPS setup from most sources for Fire Mage
All Mythic Raid drops can be upgraded to 528 item level, so their assumed item level in the best-in-slot list will be 528, and all crafted pieces are also assumed at their highest (525) item level.
Slot | Item | Source/Note |
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Weapon | ![]() |
Nymue in Amirdrassil |
Helm | ![]() |
Larodar |
Neck | ![]() |
Terros |
Shoulder | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst / Broodkeeper Diurna / Echo of Neltharion / Smolderon |
Cloak | ![]() |
Sarkareth |
Chest | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst / Kurog Grimtotem / Zskarn / Nymue |
Bracers | ![]() |
Crafted with Crit and Haste and ![]() |
Gloves | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst / Dathea / The Forgotten Experiments / Igira the Cruel |
Belt | ![]() |
Crafted with Crit and Haste and ![]() |
Legs | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst / Sennarth / Rashok / Larodar |
Boots | ![]() |
Echo of Neltharion |
Ring #1 | ![]() |
Great Vault |
Ring #2 | ![]() |
Eranog |
Trinket #1 | ![]() |
Tindral |
Trinket #2 | ![]() |
Fyrakk |
Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Fire Mage
This list contains the highest DPS setup, with farmable gear from Mythic+ Dungeons. This is a great place to start on a relatively new character, as you can infinitely grind out these items from Mythic+.
A lot of Mythic+ items are going to perform very similarly, and which item is better will depend primarily on the other items you have already. When gearing via Mythic+, your goal should be to aim for getting a 522 item in every slot before trying to minmax the exact right item in each slot.
Generally, crafting 525 items is going to be better than finding 522 Mythic+ items, so the items below are just a generic guide for when you are unable to craft better pieces.
When looking what items to farm from Mythic+, the best way is to use Raidbots droptimizer to find which items from Mythic+ are the biggest upgrades for your specific character. This will let you specifically find what dungeon has the biggest potential upgrades for you, allowing you to target farm upgrades much better than following a predetermined list of items.
Slot | Item | Source/Note |
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Weapon | ![]() |
Algeth'ar Academy |
Helm | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst |
Neck | ![]() |
Brackenhide Hollow |
Shoulder | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst |
Cloak | ![]() |
Ruby Life Pools |
Chest | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst |
Bracers | ![]() |
Uldaman |
Gloves | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst |
Belt | ![]() |
Ruby Life Pools |
Legs | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst |
Boots | ![]() |
Uldaman |
Ring #1 | ![]() |
Halls of Infusion |
Ring #2 | ![]() |
The Azure Vault |
Trinket #1 | ![]() |
Halls of Infusion |
Trinket #2 | ![]() |
The Azure Vault |
Raid Gear BiS List for Fire Mage
This list contains the highest DPS setup, only using gear from the Awakened Raids.
This list is mostly useful for informing your organized guild of what loot is optimal for you for loot distribution purposes.
Slot | Item | Source/Note |
---|---|---|
Weapon | ![]() |
Nymue in Amirdrassil |
Helm | ![]() |
Larodar |
Neck | ![]() |
Terros |
Shoulder | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst / Broodkeeper Diurna / Echo of Neltharion / Smolderon |
Cloak | ![]() |
Sarkareth |
Chest | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst / Kurog Grimtotem / Zskarn / Nymue |
Bracers | ![]() |
Sennarth |
Gloves | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst / Dathea / The Forgotten Experiments / Igira the Cruel |
Belt | ![]() |
The Forgotten Experiments |
Legs | ![]() |
Revival Catalyst / Sennarth / Rashok / Larodar |
Boots | ![]() |
Echo of Neltharion |
Ring #1 | ![]() |
Broodkeeper Diurna |
Ring #2 | ![]() |
Eranog |
Trinket #1 | ![]() |
Tindral |
Trinket #2 | ![]() |
Fyrakk |
Crafted Gear & Embellishments
Via crafting professions or using the work order system, you can craft
some powerful gear, on par or even better than Mythic raid items.
There are many options available for crafting, further
complicated by the different types of embellishments available.
You can at most have 2 embellishments on your gear, but you can have
an unlimited amount of crafted items equipped; however, this is gated
by Spark of Awakening.
The most important part to realize is that for all the best-crafted
items, you need a Spark of Awakening. This means, early on in the season,
you should treat these as very valuable, but as the season goes on, you can
craft more easily.
What items are best to craft heavily depends on your current gear. However, below
we list some suggested items:
- Crafting a weapon. We generally suggest crafting a 1-handed weapon over 2-handed as it allows for more flexibility since you can always craft an off-hand later anyway. The reason this can be a good choice, is because weapons make up a significant portion of your DPS, so crafting a weapon early will boost your DPS early on significantly. It will be a massive early DPS upgrade, but you will eventually replace the weapon with something better.
- Any item with
Shadowflame-Tempered Armor Patch Embellishment on it. Ideally, you would want to craft Wrists (
Vibrant Wildercloth Wristwraps) and Belt (
Vibrant Wildercloth Girdle). However, any minor item slot with Roilling Shadowflame on it is a good craft, and you will generally want to pick a slot you have a currently low item level piece in it.
- After applying 2 embellishments to your gear (the cap), you should focus on crafting whatever crafted item without an embellishment sims best for you. Usually, a Ring is a great choice as it is difficult to get two rings with the correct stats at a high item level and a socket, but any item that sims well for you is a great idea to craft.
Tier Set for Fire Mage
In The War Within pre-patch, the tier set was changed to the Season 1 tier set, as the old tier set now has conflicting new talents.
Fire Mage 2pc:
Pyroblasts and
Flamestrikes cast with
Hot Streak deal 10% increased damage.
Fire Mage 4pc:
Fire Blast,
Phoenix Flames, and
Fireball deal 10% increased damage and their chance to critically strike is increased by 10%.
The 2-set is very strong. The 4-set is not very strong but still worth using as it comes at almost no cost to wanted stats.
The Importance of "Simming Yourself" as a Fire Mage
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 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 consider all the variables.
General Simulations
While we heavily recommend simming yourself, you can find some of our general simulations on the dedicated page below.
Evaluating Upgrades
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. See below for a guide on how to sim yourself.
Fire Mage Gear Upgrades in Dragonflight Season 4
Dragonflight Season 2 introduced the Flightstones and Crests upgrade system, both obtainable from practically all forms of content in the game. Starting with Season 3, crafted gear is capped to 3 items below Mythic track max, making crafted gear after two embellished items less valuable than before. In Season 4, this is still the case.
For more information on the Gear Upgrades system, check out our dedicated page for it below.
Changelog
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated best for Season 4: updated bis lists, tier description, crafting suggestions, etc.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 07 Nov. 2023: Updated BiS and embellishments due to sporecloak nerf.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated all 3 best-in-slot and gearing lists for 10.2, added tier 31 section and updated crafting suggestions based on new crafting item levels.
- 26 Sep. 2023: Changed layout.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Added 3 different best-in-slot builds.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated best-in-slot for reworked Fire and added Dawn of the Infinite gear section.
- 25 May 2023: Added Timwalking section.
- 08 May 2023: Updated trinket suggestions based on improved sims and further theorycrafting.
- 01 May 2023: Updated best in slot, crafting suggestions, embellishments and replaced valor description to the new crest system and updated Onyx Annulet section based on new 10.1 gear.
- 25 Mar. 2023: Updated Onyx ring suggestions based on hotfixes.
- 22 Mar. 2023: Updated bis to include Onyx Annulet due to new gem combinations being found.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Added Onyx Annulet information and reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Updated best in slot advice based on updated theorycrafting.
- 17 Dec. 2022: Updated crafted gear due to bronzed grip changes.
- 13 Dec. 2022: Further updated crafted gear info with latest theorycrafting knowledge.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated trinket recommendations on further theorycrafting, and added more info for crafted gear.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for season 1, including crafted gear, m+ gear and raid gear.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Dutchmagoz. Dutchmagoz is a Mythic raider in one of the top raiding guilds, Turtles and the owner of the Mage Discord server, Altered Time, where he is involved in all things Mage, and you can reach out to him directly for feedback or questions about the guide.
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