Fire Mage DPS Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Dragonflight 10.1
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 — Dragonflight 10.1.
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
Keen 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.
Phial of Static Empowerment is the best theoretical Phial. However,
it requires you to stand still for a significant amount of time. If the content you
are doing allows you to stand still most of the time, you should use this Phial.
Otherwise,
Phial of Charged Isolation
can be used when you are able to stay away from all allies almost the entire
time.
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
Aromatic Seafood Platter is the best food option, followed by
Timely Demise, and then the
Grand Banquet of the Kalu'ak. The
difference is about 1% between them, but the personal food is best. The feast
simply giving half the stats of the personal food is why it is the worst of the
bunch.
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.
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.
Primordial Stone Gems
Primordial Stone Gems are a new type of gem added in Patch 10.0.7 that can only be
put into Primordial Sockets, which only exist on the new Onyx Annulet ring.
For more information regarding the Onyx Annulet, the Primordial Gemstones, and how to obtain them, check out our dedicated guide for it below.
The Onyx Annulet ring does not have secondary stats, which makes it a unique ring that is quite weak unless specific combinations of stones are used. As always, sim your own character to figure out if the ring is an upgrade for the type of content you plan to do.
Best Single Target Primordial Stone Gems for Fire Mage
Best AoE Primordial Stone Gems for Fire Mage
Storm Infused Stone
Desirous Blood Stone +
Prophetic Twilight Stone or
Pestilent Plague Stone +
Obscure Pastel Stone
For AoE, you should always run Storm Infused Stone, and then either
Desirous Blood Stone and
Prophetic Twilight Stone
or
Pestilent Plague Stone and
Obscure Pastel Stone.
Generally, I suggest Desirous Blood Stone and Prophetic Twilight Stone, as although
it is (~0.1% dps) worse than the other combination on pure Aoe,
it is significantly better (3%+) damage to priority targets and single target damage.
Changelog
- 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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