Fire Mage DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents — Dragonflight 10.2
On this page, you will find out the best talents for each tier for your Fire Mage in World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2. 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.
Best Dragonflight Talents for Fire Mage
Note that these builds are generic recommendations for various content. For more specific recommendations for the Raid and Mythic+, check out the dedicated pages below.
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. Keep in mind that there is a lot of flexibility when it comes to especially the general Mage tree, so we highly recommend reading the rest of the page for more context.
You can easily import the talent trees below into the game with the "Copy export string" button.
Best Talents for Fire Mage
Best Single-Target & Cleave Talents for Fire Mage
Below is the "standard" Fire Mage single target build. It is also
decent at doing cleave damage via Mastery: Ignite.
Keep in mind, although Living Bomb is taken in the single target
talent tree below, you should not actually cast it on single target; it is
purely taken because it is required to get to
Firefall.
Flamestrike Based AoE Fire Mage Talent Tree
The below build is a build focused around heavy AoE damage via Flamestrike.
It gives up some single target and cleave DPS but gains significant AoE
damage against larger groups of enemies. (4+ targets)
See our Ignite vs Flamestrike section
below for more information.
Flamestrike based versus Ignite based AoE builds
For AoE-based situations, there are 2 main builds you can opt into.
One focuses on Mastery: Ignite, whereas the other focuses on
Flamestrike.
The single target build is decent at doing cleave DPS. However, it suffers
when fighting larger groups of enemies. Around 3 targets, both builds do similar
DPS, however, at 4 targets onwards, the Flamestrike build starts doing more damage.
However, this additional damage does come at a cost. The Flamestrike-based build gives up significant priority target DPS. Meaning it does all its damage evenly to all targets. Whereas the Ignite-based build can heavily focus down a single target and do all of its AoE damage effectively for free.
This means that in mixed content, for example, Mythic+ or a raid boss that has both AoE phases and single target phases, you have to pick what you want to excel at. If you want to focus on heavy AoE damage, you should go for the Flamestrike build, whereas if you want to focus more on priority target DPS while still doing decent AoE damage, the Ignite build is favored.
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.
Tier 1 (Rows 1-4) Mage Class Talents For Fire Mage
Talents for all situations
Talent | Reason for taking |
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A large DPS boost. |
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A large DPS boost. |
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A large DPS boost. |
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One of the best defensives in the entire game. |
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A great defensive tool useful in all content. |
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A very strong defensive and mobility tool in one, useful in all content. |
Optional / flexible talents
Talent | Reason for taking |
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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. |
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A good pick if there are curses you can dispel. |
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Can be useful if you need the reduced cooldown
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Can be useful for skipping content, like trash packs in dungeons, or open-world enemies |
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A minor defensive tool useful in all content. |
Tier 2 (Rows 5-7) Mage Class Talents For Fire Mage
The tier 2 talents contain almost entirely utility/mobility talents.
Talents for all situations
Talent | Reason for taking |
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A straight up DPS boost |
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A straight up DPS boost |
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Both are extremely strong mobility tools. This choice is largely a personal
preference. Ice Floes ultimately allows for more movement without losing DPS,
but it comes at the cost of losing out on the burst movement
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A great survivability tool useful in all content. |
Optional / flexible talents
Talent | Reason for taking |
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A decent survivability and mobility tool useful in all content. |
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A good pickup in content where you need the reduced interrupt cooldown, like Mythic+ in a low interrupt group. |
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A good pickup to assist in kiting, especially when solo. Generally not too much usage in group content, though. |
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A very good self-healing tool when playing solo or a very strong defensive
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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. |
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Adds a relatively useful self-heal onto Mirror Image, but usually hard to proc this. |
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Great crowd control that can be extremely useful in Mythic+ and open-world content, for its ability to AoE interrupt enemy spellcasts |
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Can be used to kite packs of mobs in Mythic+, in some cases, or good for open-world content. |
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For even more crowd control. Also, technically a minor DPS increase when moving
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For even more crowd control. |
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.
Talents for all situations
Talent | Reason for taking |
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The strongest of the final nodes. We usually suggest picking Temporal Warp.
However, if you are doing group content where you are unable to use
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One of the best defensive tools in the game. |
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A single-point talent (assuming you took ![]() ![]() |
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A decent mobility tool. It is not that great of a talent on its own, but it is on the path to some very strong other nodes, so it's pretty much always taken. |
Optional / flexible talents
Talent | Reason for taking |
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Turns ![]() ![]() |
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If you have ![]() ![]() |
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A minor boost to your survivability that works in all content. |
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A decent mobility and defensive tool. Difficult to take without giving up one of the capstone nodes, but if you are skipping a capstone node, a very useful mobility + defensive tool. |
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These nodes give you even more kiting power. Not very useful in most group
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Can be useful if you are doing content where you really need the extra crowd control. |
Fire Mage Talents
In this section, we will go over the Fire Mage Talents. The focus of this section will be PvE content.
Tier 1 (Rows 1-4) Fire Mage Talents
This section sets up a lot of the core components of the spec.
Talents for all situations
You always take all talents in this section, except for Firestarter
and
Fuel the Fire.
Optional / flexible talents
Talent | Reason for taking |
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Very good DPS boost as long if the enemy remains above 90% health larger than a usual amount of time. For example, if a raid boss has a large shield at 100% health that you need to burn through first. |
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Only taken for the ![]() |
Tier 2 (Rows 5-7) Fire Mage Talents
Talents for all situations
Talent | Reason for taking |
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Large DPS increase on both single target and AoE, numerically stronger than other options. |
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Large DPS increase on both single target and AoE, numerically stronger than other options. You always take at least one point of Critical Mass as the first point is stronger than the second. See the optional section below on when to take the second point. |
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Large DPS increase on both single target and AoE, numerically stronger than other options. |
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Large DPS increase on both single target and AoE, numerically stronger than other options. |
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Large DPS boost in all content, numerically stronger than other options. |
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Large DPS boost in all content, numerically stronger than other options. |
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Decent DPS boost in all content, numerically stronger than other options. |
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Great for both single target and AoE. |
Optional / flexible talents
Talent | Reason for taking |
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You should use ![]() ![]() |
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Taken on single target but skipped in AoE situations. |
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Taken for single target, but skipped in AoE situations. |
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Picked for heavy AoE when going ![]() |
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Picked for heavy AoE when going ![]() |
Tier 3 (Rows 8-10) Fire Mage Talents
Talents for all situations
Talent | Reason for taking |
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Large DPS increase on both single target and AoE, numerically stronger than other options. |
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Large DPS increase on both single target and AoE, numerically stronger than other options. |
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Large DPS increase on both single target and AoE, numerically stronger than other options. |
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The best capstone node available. Generally, you will want to go with
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Not the best node on its own, but required to get to ![]() ![]() |
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Numerically better than other options on both single target and AoE. |
Optional / flexible talents
Talent | Reason for taking |
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Taken for single target, but skipped in heavy AoE situations or when
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Can be taken instead of the three talents above for single target.
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Skipped for single target or low target counts, but numerically stronger than other options for AoE situations. |
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Skipped for single target or low target counts, but numerically stronger than other options for AoE situations. |
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Picked in single target but skipped in AoE situations. |
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.
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.
Fire Mage War Mode Talents
In this section, we will rank the War Mode talents for leveling and outdoor content.
Glass Cannon gives you a significant damage buff. The reduced health is usually not a problem in open-world content.
Ring of Fire puts up a relatively large circle that burns enemies who walk into the outer part of the circle, doing significant damage.
Greater Pyroblast is a very hard-hitting spell, especially on high-health enemies, and it will greatly increase your damage against high-health enemies, like world bosses or rares.
Changelog
- 19 Nov. 2023: Updated talent tree to pick Alexstrasza's Fury by default due to optimisations found.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated suggested talents due to 10.2 changes.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Changed talent layout to be easier to navigate.
- 14 Jul. 2023: Added disclaimed that Living Bomb should not be used on single target.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated suggested talents after the Fire rework for 10.1.5.
- 03 May 2023: Added note about the suggested talents being based on having 2 and 4 set.
- 01 May 2023: Updated suggested talents based on 10.1 changes and cleaned up some talent advice.
- 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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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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