Fire Mage DPS Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — The War Within (Season 1)
On this page, we list the best gems, enchants, flasks, potions, and food you can get for your Fire Mage, based on your stat priority. We also give budget alternatives. This page is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (Season 1).
If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Fire Mage gems and enchants.
Best Gems, Enchants, Food, and Flasks for Fire Mage in The War Within
This section specifically covers the optimal gems, enchants, food, and flasks to use for your character. To get a more detailed rundown of the different stats for Fire Mage, please visit our dedicated Stats page.
Best Gems for Fire Mage in The War Within
We highly recommend using Raidbots to sim your character's ideal gems and enchants, as they might differ from our general recommendations.
Raiding
The best stats for Raiding Fire Mages are Haste and Versatility, so that is what we will be gemming for.
You should use Culminating Blasphemite in one socket. Then, you should ensure you have one gem of each type in other sockets to max out the Crit effect, ideally Quick Ruby/ Quick Onyx/ Quick Sapphire/ Versatile Emerald/ Quick Amber. Fill in remaining sockets with Versatile Emerald.
Mythic+
The best stats for Mythic+ Fire Mages are Haste and Versatility, so that is what we will be gemming for.
You should use Culminating Blasphemite in one socket. Then, you should ensure you have one gem of each type in other sockets to max out the Crit effect, ideally Quick Ruby/ Quick Onyx/ Quick Sapphire/ Versatile Emerald/ Quick Amber. Fill in remaining sockets with Versatile Emerald.
An alternative option is using Elusive Blasphemite. This is a small DPS loss ( ~0.5%), but provides a meaningful movement speed boost, which can often end up being worth more DPS due to having to spend less time moving.
Best Enchants for Fire Mage in The War Within
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Best Flask for Fire Mage in The War Within
You should be drinking the Flask of Tempered Swiftness at all times.
Best Weapon Buff For Fire Mage
You should be using Algari Mana Oil.
Best Potion for Fire Mage in The War Within
Your stat potion should be Tempered Potion. Use these when you will do the most damage with your abilities, likely during your cooldowns and/or Bloodlust/ Heroism. You can also obtain Fleeting Tempered Potion from Cauldrons that can be spawned by Alchemists.
You should keep a stock of Algari Healing Potions to use when at low health, and if you have a Warlock in the group, grab their Healthstones and use them as well. Do not macro these together, they are best used separately! You can also obtain Fleeting Algari Healing Potion from Cauldrons that can be spawned by Alchemists.
Best Food for Fire Mage in The War Within
You should be eating from a Feast at all times, either Feast of the Divine Day, Feast of the Midnight Masquerade, or Hearty Feast of the Midnight Masquerade.
If Feasts are not available, eat Outsider's Provisions, Beledar's Bounty, Jester's Board, or Empress' Farewell instead.
In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Crystallized Augment Runes to increase your primary stat. Augment Runes are expensive, and disappear on death, so use them wisely!
Changelog
- 11 Sep. 2024: Added weapon consumable (oil).
- 09 Sep. 2024: Added Elusive Blasphemite as an alternative gem.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Added new season 4 helm enchant, and minor potion improvements.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Removed sections related to Onyx Annulet as it is now too far behind to be considered.
- 01 Oct. 2023: Updated food buff suggestion.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 09 Aug. 2023: Updated gem suggestion to haste + vers instead of mastery.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for the Fire Mage rework of 10.1.5 and the Primordial Gems nerf.
- 22 May 2023: Updated leg enchant suggestions.
- 01 May 2023: Updated Onyx Annulet suggestions based on new 10.1 gear.
- 25 Mar. 2023: Updated Primordial Stone Gem suggestions based on hotfixes.
- 22 Mar. 2023: Update Primordial Stone Gem suggestions due to Desirious Blood Stone combinations being very strong.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated Primordial Stone gem suggestions based based on Obscure Pastel Stone being Arcane instead of Shadow on live servers.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Added Primordial Stone gem suggestions and reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 13 Jan. 2023: Added leg enchant.
- 14 Dec. 2022: Added weapon imbuement advice.
- 13 Dec. 2022: Updated phial advice.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated gems advice based on better simulations.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated phial advice.
- 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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