Fire Mage DPS Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (Season 1)

Fire struggles with doing AoE damage in Season 1. There are, unfortunately very limited options to spec into AoE that actually meaningfully increase your AoE DPS. Due to this, we recommend a more cleave-oriented build, where you focus on doing priority damage and let Mastery: Ignite do the AoE damage for you. This build offers good priority damage while doing "free" AoE damage, making it especially good for dungeons with high priority targets to kill.

• Replace Mass Barrier for Mass Invisibility if your dungeon route requires the ability to skip enemy packs and have no one else providing the group with invisibility (a Rogue or using potions).
• Swap out of Remove Curse for any defensive talent of your choice when there are no Curses to dispel in the dungeon, you plan to do, or if someone else will handle the dispelling.
• Swap out of Spellsteal for any defensive talent of your choice when there are no buffs worth dispelling in the dungeon you plan to do.
• Take Ring of Frost or Ice Nova if you need any more crowd-control, at the cost of any of your defensives.
• Replace Blast Wave for any defensive talent of your choosing if you do not need the crowd-control.
• Opt out of Ice Cold (and the nodes leading to it) for any defensive nodes of your choosing if you need the immunity of Ice Block for the dungeon you are doing.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

The main reason to bring a Fire Mage to a Mythic+ group is for its damage, but aside from that, it also has some very valuable utility, which makes every Mythic+ group want at least one Mage:

• Arcane Intellect is a big boost for both the other caster DPS in the group, as well as additional healing for the healer.
• Time Warp is a required cooldown for any Mythic+ group.
• Remove Curse can be useful to dispel Curses in some dungeons.
• A Fire Mage can add a lot of crowd control in the form of Dragon's Breath, Polymorph, Blast Wave, Ice Nova, Ring of Frost, or even Mass Slow.
• Spellsteal can be useful in some dungeons to remove dangerous buffs from enemy targets. Sometimes, it can also be used as a big DPS boost for the Arcane Mage by Spellstealing beneficial buffs that increase your damage.
• Mass Barrier can be brought as a decent defensive cooldown for the group.
• Mass Invisibility can be very useful to skip certain packs.