Fire Mage DPS Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — The War Within Pre-Patch
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 Pre-Patch.
If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Fire Mage gems and enchants.
Item Quality Ranks
Profession Consumable Ranks
As part of Dragonflight's overhaul of Professions, many crafted items and consumables may have multiple ranks of quality that impact their effects. For consumables, there are potentially three ranks of an item that may be used, with Rank 3 items (shown as item level 415 in-game and with three gold stars) providing the most powerful bonuses. However, higher quality consumables will generally be more expensive and not always necessary depending on the content you are doing. You should be willing to use whatever rank of an item is most within your budget, and save higher-quality consumables for content where you will really need the extra boost!
If you would like to learn more about quality ranks on profession items, or the overhaul to professions as a whole, please see our overview below.
We suggest you always take the highest rank available to you.
Enchants, Gems and Consumables for Fire Mage
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
You should use Fierce Illimited Diamond in one socket, and
Energized Ysemerald, unless a different secondary gem sims better.
Best Enchants for Fire Mage
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Consumables for Fire Mage
Best Phials and Potions for Fire
We suggest Phial of Tepid Versatility as your go-to Phial.
There are some other Phials you could consider in some specific content, but they
generally come with significant drawbacks or are too difficult to maintain
properly, and you end up being worse off than going with Tepid Versatility.
Below, we list the alternative Phials that can be used if you are very comfortable
their drawbacks can be avoided.
Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage is the best theoretical DPS Phial. However, it
comes with a pretty significant downside. Every 400% of your health
taken in damage causes you to take significant damage damage over time.
If you feel very safe in the content you are doing, this Phial is worth using it.
Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power is the best potion to use.
Elemental Potion of Power can be used as a cheaper alternative.
Refreshing Healing Potion or
Potion of Withering Vitality should
be used alongside
Healthstones for emergency healing.
Potion of Withering Vitality heals for about twice as much as Refreshing Healing
Potion,
but you will also get a damage over time effect equal to the healing amount.
Using
Alter Time right after getting the heal is a great way to
counteract
this negative effect, but generally speaking, the safer choice is to go with
Refreshing Healing Potion.
Best Food for Fire
Grand Banquet of the Kalu'ak (or any 76 Intellect buff) is the best food
option.
Best weapon Imbuement
We suggest using the Howling Rune weapon Imbuement. If a different
stat sims the best for you, use that Rune instead.
Augment Runes for Fire
In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Draconic Augment Runes to
increase your primary stat. Since there is a finite amount of the consumable
runes available, you should make sure to use them wisely and to stock up on them
for when you need them.
Through the Patch 10.2 Emerald Dream Zone and its Dream Wardens
Faction, you can also obtain the Dreambound Augment Rune, which is
permanent!
Swapping Talents in Dragonflight
As of patch 10.0, you no longer need to use any item to change your talents. You can freely change your talents any time you are out of combat.
Changelog
- 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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