Fire Mage DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Shadowlands 9.1

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.

Generally speaking, Disciplinary Command is the best Legendary for all situations, and should be crafted for the Ring slot. 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.

After crafting and upgrading Disciplinary Command, we suggest crafting for more utility or niche Legendaries, like the ones below:

• Temporal Warp (Ring) - Better than Fevered Incantation in 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.

Domination Sockets are a new type of socket introduced in Patch 9.1. These sockets appear on specific items dropped from bosses in Sanctum of Domination, with each armor type having a maximum of 5 slots available. You can find more general information regarding Domination Sockets on our general guide, linked below.

For Fire Mages, the following slots are available for Domination Sockets:

• Helm
• Shoulders
• Chest
• Bracers
• Belt

As a Fire Mage, you will want the following 5 Domination Shards, listed in order of importance:

• Shard of Cor
• Shard of Bek
• Shard of Dyz
• Shard of Zed
• Shard of Oth

This gives you all 3 damage Shards, and the Unholy 3-piece bonus.

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 Sinful Aspirant'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 Sinful Aspirant's Badge of Ferocity.
2. Depraved Physician's Mask (if using Disciplinary Command): This helm is BiS and slightly better than any other helm from raid content.
3. Any weapon if you have a weapon below 220 item level: Although the BiS weapon comes from raid content, a weapon is generally going to be the biggest short-term upgrade. Use the droptimizer link above to find which weapon works best for your character.

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. Sinful Aspirant'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

Keep in mind the below gear is just an example of strong set of end-game gear. Depending on your current gear, the items below might not be the best items to equip for each slot. As always, to determine your own gear, use Raidbots Top Gear.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Veil of the Banshee Queen	Sylvanas Windrunner in Sanctum of Domination
Neck	Interplanar Keystone	Kel'Thuzad in Sanctum of Domination
Shoulder	Frame of the False Margrave	Kel'Thuzad in Sanctum of Domination
Cloak	Self-Replicating Tissue	Guardian of the First Ones in Sanctum of Domination
Chest	Sacrificer's Sacramental Cassock	Painsmith Raznal in Sanctum of Domination
Wrists	Desecrator's Keening Wristwraps	Sylvanas Windrunner in Sanctum of Domination
Gloves	Grasps of the Clairvoyant Sage	The Eye of the Jailer in Sanctum of Domination
Belt	Sash of Duplicitous Magics	Kel'Thuzad in Sanctum of Domination
Legs	Sorcerer's Headlong Legwraps	The Tarragrue in Sanctum of Domination
Boots	Tormented Shadowcleft Boots	Soulrender Dormazain in Sanctum of Domination
Ring #1	Tarnished Insignia of Quel'Thalas	Sylvanas Windrunner in Sanctum of Domination
Ring #2	Shadowghast Ring ( Disciplinary Command)	Crafted Legendary, with Disciplinary Command using Missive of Haste and Missive of Versatility
Main-hand + Off-hand	Maledict Opus	Kel'Thuzad in Sanctum of Domination
Trinket 1	Forbidden Necromantic Tome	Kel'Thuzad in Sanctum of Domination
Trinket 2	Inscrutable Quantum Device	The Great Vault or upgrading via Valor. (original source: Dealer Xy'exak in De Other Side)