Fire Mage DPS Mythic+ Tips — Midnight Season 1

Fire Mage has long been known as a powerhouse when it comes to Mythic+. Not only does it come with a great damage profile, where you generally do not have to give up much, or any, single-target damage to do AoE damage, it also comes with great utility and survivability, making it a very desirable spec to bring to any Mythic+ group.

Fire generally has 2 main playstyles in Mythic+, a Flamestrike based AoE playstyle, where your main spender of Hot Streak is Flamestrike, or a Cleave based playstyle, where your Hot Streaks are used on Pyroblast. Both builds are generally viable, with the Flamestrike variant doing more overall DPS and the cleave build doing more single-target and priority-target DPS.

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Best Mythic+ Talents for Fire Mage

Sunfury Mythic+ Talents Frostfire Mythic+ Talents Flexible Talents / Dungeon Specific Talents

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Frostfire Mythic+ Talents

This Frostfire build is slightly behind the Sunfury variant in AoE scenarios, while being slightly ahead on single-target. Due to this, for best overall DPS Frostfire usually performs slightly worse, but it has better boss DPS and the differences are very small regardless so you can play either Hero spec without any issues.

This build can do both priority DPS and maximum AoE DPS by simply swapping the rotation depending on the pack. Check out the priority DPS vs AoE section below for more info.

2.2.

Sunfury Mythic+ Talents

This Sunfury build slightly ahead of the Frostfire variant in AoE scenarios, while behind slightly behind on single-target. Generally this makes it a better spec for Mythic+, but the differences are very small either way so you really cannot go wrong with either Hero spec. Sunfury also has more mobility so I recommend playing Sunfury if you have no personal preference between either.

This build can do both priority DPS and maximum AoE DPS by simply swapping the rotation depending on the pack. Check out the priority DPS vs AoE section below for more info.

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Flexible Talents / Dungeon Specific Talents

Depending on the Dungeon, there is a lot of flexibility when it comes to talents. The Mage tree has a lot of utility which can be either very good or completely useless depending on the dungeon, which allows you to switch between those utility spells or defensive talents as needed.

• Swap between Temporal Realignment or Time Walk based on personal preference. Temporal Alignment a very simple passive heal when you get low, while Time Walk is better if you are good at proactively using Alter Time.
• Spec in/out of Mass Invisibility depending on if you need it to skip any packs.
• Spec in/out of Remove Curse depending on if you need to dispell any curses.
• Spec in/out of Spellsteal depending on if you need to remove any enemy buffs.
• Spec in/out of Ice Cold (and the nodes leading to it) depending on if you need the immunity of Ice Block for the dungeon you are doing.
• If you specced out of any of the nodes listed above, you can use the points to spec into one or some of the following:
  • Improved Spellsteal: Useful if you often need to dispell the same target multiple times in a row but do not want to give up too many global cooldowns on it.
  • Improved Remove Curse: Useful if you often need to dispell yourself and someone else at the same time, but no one else. This is generally only recommended if there is a second Curse dispeller in the group. Can be very useful during Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour weeks to quickly dispell yourself and one other person.
  • Freezing Cold: If you need to kite enemy packs.
  • Incantation of Swiftness: For speedrunning content.
  • Master of Escape: Can be combined with Incantation of Swiftness if you need even more movement speed increases or enemy pack skips with full stealth groups.

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 Mage can add a lot of crowd control in the form of Dragon's Breath, Polymorph, Ice Nova and Ring of Frost.
• 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 Mage by Spellstealing beneficial buffs that increase your damage.
• Mass Invisibility can be very useful to skip certain packs.
• Energized Barriers can be used to remove snare effects.
• Ice Block can be used to remove certain debuffs or cancel certain enemy spells if you are targeted.

The AoE rotation outlined in the Rotation Page below is a perfect fit for Mythic+ content.

We do provide some additional rotation tips relevant to Mythic+ below.

With the recommended talent builds, you have a lot of flexibility in what type of damage you want to do in Mythic+. Ultimately, it comes down to whether you use Pyroblast or Flamestrike as your Hot Streak spender. Pyroblast will yield to significantly more priority target DPS, whereas Flamestrike does significantly more AoE DPS. Luckily, you can switch which one you use freely without needing to change your talents, allowing you to pick and choose depending on the pack.

Generally the choice is quite obvious: If there is a target in the pack that is very dangerous if left alive for a long time, you simply use Pyroblast as your Hot Streak spender, but if that is not the case, you instead use Flamestrike as your spender.

This section has Mage-specific tips for dealing with the various affixes of Mythic+. If you want general guides for each of our Dungeons or Mythic+ in general, check out our dedicated page below.

Season 1 of Midnight has four rotating Affixes which require active play to deal with, called Xal'ataths Bargains. These rotate every week, with only one of them being active at a time. Most other Mythic+ affixes, like Fortified or Tyrannical, simply add a passive effect to the keystone, with these four exceptions that are seasonally themed after Xal'atah:

• Xal'atath's Bargain: Ascendant: Three waves of orbs will spawn that need to be interrupted or disrupted. You have multiple ways of dealing with these: Supernova for AoE interrupt if they are close together, Counterspell for singular interrupts, and Spellsteal for any remaining ones. Since Spellsteal has no cooldown (unless talented into Improved Spellsteal), you can theoretically get rid of all of them, but this will take up a lot of time.
• Xal'atath's Bargain: Voidbound: Spawns a Void Emissary enemy which needs to be quickly killed. After it dies, you get a strong ability cooldowns and Versatility buff. Note: You can spread Mastery: Ignite to this target if it spawns close to the enemies you already have Ignite on, which can provide a lot of free damage to the add.
• Xal'atath's Bargain: Pulsar: Orbs will spawn around players and circle around them. You have 15 seconds to soak all of these to buff your group. Simply run into them to soak them.
• Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour: All party members will be affected by a healing absorb. You can remove these with Remove Curse. Improved Remove Curse is very useful to quickly dispell yourself and one other player. Health potions or Healthstones also work well if your healer is out of resources.

When you successfully deal with these affixes, they grant you a beneficial buff, which differs per affix. These effects are usually quite strong, but not really played around. It is however very important to deal with them correctly, as failing to do so will buff the enemies which can very quickly wipe a group.