Fire Mage DPS Spec, Builds, and Talents — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

Note that these builds are generic recommendations for various content. For more specific recommendations Mythic+, check out the dedicated page 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.

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Best Talents for Fire Mage

Sunfury Single Target Talents Sunfury Cleave Talents Sunfury Mythic+ Talents Frostfire Single Target Talents Frostfire Cleave Talents Frostfire Mythic+ Talents Delve Talents

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Sunfury Single-Target & Cleave Talents for Fire Mage

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Sunfury Cleave Talents for Fire Mage

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Sunfury Mythic+ Fire Mage

The Mythic+ build is practically identical to the cleave and single-target builds, mostly swapping into more utility spells in the Mage tree, but otherwise running the same actual DPS talents.

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Frostfire Single-Target & Cleave Talents for Fire Mage

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Frostfire Cleave Talents for Fire Mage

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Frostfire Mythic+ Fire Mage

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Best Delve Talents for Fire Mage

Fire has access to the Sunfury and Frostfire Hero Talent trees.

Sunfury mostly focuses around speeding up your rotation and spawning an Arcane Phoenix alongside you during Combustion, throwing out spells of its own providing damage and some utility. Gameplay wise, Sunfury speeds up your rotation a bit by proving a couple of sources of cooldown reduction on Fire Blast or additional haste, but the main rotational change comes from Memory of Al'ar, which grants you Hyperthermia when Combustion ends. While Hyperthermia is active, you can spam instant-cast Pyroblasts or Flamestrikes, providing another Combustion-like mini-burst after Combustion ends.

Frostfire is entirely focused on augmenting your damage by firing off a bunch of extra Frost spells, like Glacial Spikes and Comet Storm. Gameplay wise, Frostfire replaces your Fireball for Frostfire Bolt, which makes your rotation slightly faster because it has a lower cast time when specced into, but otherwise plays the same as Fireball. The main rotational change comes from Frostfire Empowerment, which makes you want to use Frostfire Bolt whenever it procs and you do not have Heating Up or Hot Streak.

For the full details on how the Hero Talents impact your rotation, see the rotation page.

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.

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.

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

1. Glass Cannon gives you a significant damage buff. The reduced health is usually not a problem in open-world content.
2. Ring of Fire puts up a relatively large circle that burns enemies who walk into the outer part of the circle, doing significant damage.
3. 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.