Fire Mage DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents — Dragonflight 10.0.7

Last updated on Mar 20, 2023 at 14:16 by Dutchmagoz 55 comments
General Information

On this page, you will find out the best talents for each tier for your Fire Mage in World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.0.7. We also have default talent lists for various types of content, such as raiding or Mythic+. If you play with Warmode on, we have your PvP talents covered as well.

If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Fire Mage talents.

1.

Talent Cheat Sheets for Fire Mage

While optimizing talents on a contextual basis is the highly recommended method of setting up your build, the talent build listed below works great for general purposes.

You can easily import the talent trees below into the game with the "Copy export string" button.

As you can see from the tree above, basically all of the AoE nodes (right side of the tree) are skipped. This is because spreading high Mastery: Ignite Icon Mastery: Ignites is simply a better way to do AoE damage on almost all target counts, and we simply do not have the points to spec into the right side of the tree.

1.1.

Raiding

The build suggested above does not account for specific fights in the current raid tier. When the first raid is closer to release, we will provide talents on a per-boss basis.

1.2.

Mythic+

Mythic+ can potentially require a mix of certain AoE and Single-Target talents, depending on affixes and other variables. If you want advice that is specific to Mythic+, you should check out our page below.

1.3.

How To Use Fire Mage Talents

Multiple talents require a change to your rotation to use them optimally. You can find more information on how your rotation will look after selecting your talents on our rotation page below.

If you are looking for in-depth explanations of what each talent does, we suggest reading through the spell summary page.

2.

Picking Mage Class Talents

The general Mage tree is extremely flexible. It is almost entirely personal preference, apart from a couple of key DPS nodes. You have many more points available than you need to get all of the DPS nodes, leaving you with many options in terms of survivability, crowd control, and utility. Below we will highlight some of the key nodes that are important for DPS and suggest some of the best non-DPS nodes. However, even after that, you can assign a bunch of points as you see fit.

2.1.

Tier 1 (Rows 1-4) Mage Class Talents For Fire Mage

2.1.1.

Talents for all situations

Talent Reason for taking
Overflowing Energy Icon Overflowing Energy A straight up DPS boost
Rune of Power Icon Rune of Power or Incanter's Flow Icon Incanter's Flow Rune of Power Icon Rune of Power is the best theoretical DPS choice for any amount of targets. However, Incanter's Flow Icon Incanter's Flow can be close, and Rune of Power is quite restrictive, so it may not be practical for all encounters.
Ice Block Icon Ice Block One of the best defensives in the entire game.
Mirror Image Icon Mirror Image A great defensive tool useful in all content.
Alter Time Icon Alter Time A very strong defensive and mobility tool in one, useful in all content.
Tempest Barrier Icon Tempest Barrier A great defensive tool useful in all content.
2.1.2.

Optional / flexible talents

Talent Reason for taking
Spellsteal Icon Spellsteal A good pick if there are buffs you can steal that are either beneficial to you, or make the content easier by removing it from the target.
Remove Curse Icon Remove Curse A good pick if there are curses you can dispel.
Winter's Protection Icon Winter's Protection Can be useful if you need the reduced cooldown to be able to solo soak a specific raid mechanic
Incantation of Swiftness Icon Incantation of Swiftness Can be useful for skipping content, like trash packs in dungeons, or open-world enemies
2.2.

Tier 2 (Rows 5-7) Mage Class Talents For Fire Mage

The tier 2 talents contain almost entirely utility/mobility talents.

2.2.1.

Talents for all situations

Talent Reason for taking
Tome of Rhonin Icon Tome of Rhonin A straight up DPS boost
Tome of Antonidas Icon Tome of Antonidas A straight up DPS boost
Shimmer Icon Shimmer or Ice Floes Icon Ice Floes Both are extremely strong mobility tools. This choice is largely a personal preference. However, when running Sun King's Blessing Icon Sun King's Blessing and/or Pyroclasm Icon Pyroclasm, Ice Floes is a very good tool to ensure you do not have to interrupt hard casts while dodging raid mechanics, without having to Shimmer out of your Rune of Power Icon Rune of Power.
Diverted Energy Icon Diverted Energy A great survivability tool useful in all content.
2.2.2.

Optional / flexible talents

Talent Reason for taking
Master of Time Icon Master of Time A decent survivability and mobility tool useful in all content.
Quick Witted Icon Quick Witted A good pickup in content where you need the reduced interrupt cooldown, like Mythic+ in a low interrupt group.
Slow Icon Slow A good pickup to assist in kiting, especially when solo. Generally not too much usage in group content though.
Cryo-Freeze Icon Cryo-Freeze A very good self-healing tool when playing solo, limited use in group content as you are unlikely to sit in Ice Block for long
Reduplication Icon Reduplication Can be useful if it would give you an additional usage of Mirror Image for a specific high-hitting ability, but usually hard to proc this.
Reabsorption Icon Reabsorption Adds a relatively useful self-heal onto Mirror Image, but usually hard to proc this.
Blast Wave Icon Blast Wave Great crowd control that can be extremely useful in Mythic+ and open-world content, for its ability to AoE interrupt enemy spellcasts
Volatile Detonation Icon Volatile Detonation Used to further increase the ability to kite with Blast Wave Icon Blast Wave, but should be careful in grouped content to not knock enemies into additional enemies and pull more than planned.
Mass Slow Icon Mass Slow Can be used to kite packs of mobs in Mythic+ in some cases, or good for open-world content.
Ice Nova Icon Ice Nova For even more crowd control
Ring of Frost Icon Ring of Frost For even more crowd control.
2.3.

Tier 3 (Rows 8-10) Mage Class Talents For Fire Mage

In this tier, we unlock some of the strong final nodes as a priority, whereas the rest is flexible.

2.3.1.

Talents for all situations

Talent Reason for taking
Time Anomaly Icon Time Anomaly / Temporal Warp Icon Temporal Warp The strongest of the final nodes. The choice largely comes down to whether or not you are doing group content where someone else can provide Time Warp Icon Time Warp (or similar effect). If your group does not have someone else who can provide Time Warp, or your group will not use Time Warp until very late in an encounter, you should go Time Anomaly, otherwise Temporal Warp.
Shifting Power Icon Shifting Power A straight-up DPS boost, stronger than Meteor Icon Meteor.
Greater Invisibility Icon Greater Invisibility One of the best defensive tools in the game.
Flow of Time Icon Flow of Time Mandatory to get to the final nodes, but also a pretty strong mobility tool in its own right.
2.3.2.

Optional / flexible talents

Talent Reason for taking
Dragon's Breath Icon Dragon's Breath A very good crowd-control ability, especially useful in Mythic+ to interrupt spell casts.
Accumulative Shielding Icon Accumulative Shielding A minor boost to your survivability that works in all content.
Displacement Icon Displacement A decent mobility tool. Worth picking up if you already took Accumulative Shielding Icon Accumulative Shielding.
Temporal Velocity Icon Temporal Velocity A decent mobility tool. Not that great of a talent on its own, but it is on the path to Dragon's Breath so nice to pick up as a benefit of going for Dragon's Breath.
Frigid Winds Icon Frigid Winds + Ice Ward Icon Ice Ward These nodes give you even more kiting power. Not very useful in most group content, but strong when solo, and on the way to Shifting Power Icon Shifting Power anyway.
Time Manipulation Icon Time Manipulation Can be useful if you are doing content where you need the extra crowd control. Not worth taking instead of Dragon's Breath, so usually only worth taking if you are skipping one of the final talents in the tree.
3.

Fire Mage Talents

In this section, we will go over the Fire Mage Talents. The focus of this section will be PvE content.

3.1.

Tier 1 (Rows 1-4) Fire Mage Talents

This section sets up a lot of the core components of the spec. You will take almost every single talent in this section of the tree, with very little flexibility.

3.1.1.

Talents for all situations

You always take all talents in this section, apart from Flamestrike Icon Flamestrike and Improved Flamestrike Icon Improved Flamestrike.

3.1.2.

Optional / flexible talents

Flamestrike Icon Flamestrike and Improved Flamestrike Icon Improved Flamestrike could be picked up for a heavy AoE-focused build. However, it is simply not feasible to get these talents without giving up very large DPS nodes later in the tree, so we do not recommend going down the heavy AoE path.

3.2.

Tier 2 (Rows 5-7) Fire Mage Talents

3.2.1.

Talents for all situations

Talent Reason for taking
Flame On Icon Flame On Very large DPS boost in all content, numerically stronger than other options.
Critical Mass Icon Critical Mass Very large DPS boost in all content, numerically stronger than other options.
Combustion Icon Combustion Very large DPS boost in all content, numerically stronger than other options.
Improved Combustion Icon Improved Combustion Very large DPS boost in all content, numerically stronger than other options.
Feel the Burn Icon Feel the Burn Large DPS boost in all content, numerically stronger than other options.
Firemind Icon Firemind (1x) Large DPS boost in all content, numerically stronger than other options.
From the Ashes Icon From the Ashes Stronger than Alexstrasza's Fury Icon Alexstrasza's Fury due to our focus on Mastery: Ignite Icon Mastery: Ignite
Call of the Sun King Icon Call of the Sun King Decent DPS boost in all content, numerically stronger than other options.
3.2.2.

Optional / flexible talents

Talent Reason for taking
Cauterize Icon Cauterize An incredible single-point survival talent, that we strongly recommend when doing difficult content where you are afraid of dying.
Firemind Icon Firemind (2x) If you are not getting Cauterize, you should put 2 points into Firemind.
3.3.

Tier 3 (Rows 8-10) Fire Mage Talents

3.3.1.

Talents for all situations

Talent Reason for taking
Pyroclasm Icon Pyroclasm Very large DPS boost in all content, numerically stronger than other options. Even on AoE, it is stronger than other options due to the large Mastery: Ignite Icon Mastery: Ignite it provides.
Kindling Icon Kindling Very large DPS boost in all content, numerically stronger than other options.
Master of Flame Icon Master of Flame Very large DPS boost in all content, numerically stronger than other options. Also is a large contributor to what makes the single target-focused build work so well in AoE.
Sun King's Blessing Icon Sun King's Blessing (+talents leading to it) Very large DPS boost in all content, numerically stronger than other options, especially when considering the path it takes to reach.
Fevered Incantation Icon Fevered Incantation (1x) Numerically better than other options
3.3.2.

Optional / flexible talents

After the talents above, we have 3-4 points remaining (depending on if you picked Cauterize Icon Cauterize / a second point in Firemind Icon Firemind), with 3 points to each capstone trait. This means we can pick up 1 more capstone talent and potentially 1 additional talent.

Talent Reason for taking
Fiery Rush Icon Fiery Rush (+talents leading to it) The Fiery rush path is somewhere between even and 1% DPS behind the Hyperthermia Icon Hyperthermia path, depending on your gear on pure single target. However, Fiery Rush is significantly better on cleave and AoE, so we generally suggest going the Fiery Rush path for most content.
Hyperthermia Icon Hyperthermia (+talents leading to it) The Hyperthermia path is somewhere between even and 1% DPS ahead of the Fiery Rush Icon Fiery Rush path. However, it is significantly worse on cleave and AoE. We only suggest taking Hyperthermia over Fiery Rush on pure single-target fights, and only if, in your simulations, you are closer to 1% ahead than even.

If you went the Hyperthermia Icon Hyperthermia path, you will have 1 point left over. This final point can go into any of the nodes you skipped in the previous tiers. Generally, this means either a second point into Firemind Icon Firemind or into Cauterize Icon Cauterize if you skipped it.

4.

PvP Talents (War Mode)

Since Battle for Azeroth, there is the option to enable "War Mode". Enabling War Mode grants the following benefits:

  • PvP talents enabled in the outdoor world.
  • 10% increase in World Quest rewards at max level.
  • 10% more experience gained while leveling.
  • Earn Conquest Points which can reward gear every week.

With the benefits of enabling War Mode for leveling and PvE content, it is recommended enabling the feature to maximize your leveling and rewards at max level. However, doing so will enable PvP combat and the possibility of being attacked by members of the opposite faction while leveling or doing World Quests exists.

4.1.

Fire Mage War Mode Talents

In this section we will rank the War Mode talents for leveling and outdoor content.

  1. Ring of Fire Icon Ring of Fire puts up a relatively large circle, that burns enemies who walk into the outer part of the circle, doing significant damage.
  2. Greater Pyroblast Icon Greater Pyroblast is a very hard-hitting spell, especially on high-health enemies, and it will greatly increase your damage against high-health enemies.
  3. Pyrokinesis Icon Pyrokinesis allows you to use Combustion Icon Combustion more often, allowing you to kill enemies quicker.
5.

Changelog

  • 20 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
  • 16 Feb. 2023: Removed old note.
  • 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
  • 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
  • 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
  • 25 Oct. 2022: Split talent suggestions up into Night Fae and non Night Fae section.
  • 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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