Fire Mage DPS Stat Priority — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.3

You will want to prioritize stats as follows for single-target:

1. Haste;
2. Versatility;
3. Mastery;
4. Critical Strike;
5. Intellect.

You will want to prioritize stats as follows for multiple targets:

1. Mastery (by far);
2. Haste;
3. Versatility;
4. Critical Strike;
5. Intellect.

The respective values of Critical Strike, Mastery, Haste, and Versatility fluctuate depending on gear, but they are very close. Intellect is almost always behind all secondary stats, point for point. However, items generally have a lot of Intellect, which makes higher level items still very important. Mastery scales much better with additional targets. We encourage players to sim themselves if possible to determine what stats you should desire according to your current distribution, as this may change depending on your current values. This is because a deficiency of one stat will often cause it to become high in value, relative to the others, until you reach a "normalized" value. A sim can be very easily run by almost anyone using the Raidbots Stat Weights tool.

These statistics have been obtained by combining common sense, in-game testing, and simulations using SimulationCraft.

Intellect is your primary stat. It provides you with Spell Power, which increases the damage of your spells.

Critical Strike increases your chance to critically hit, which in turn increases your chances to get instant-free Pyroblasts. This gives you the most reliable damage and smoothens out the rotation considerably, giving you the most consistent output.

Mastery, through Mastery: Ignite, increases the damage of your Ignite DoT. Mastery is reasonably close to Critical Strike in value, increasing with the number of targets present, eventually out-pacing Critical Strike on sustained AoE and cleave. Critical Strike and Mastery have good synergy, because Pyroblasts and Flamestrikes affected by Hot Streak cause double the normal ignite value, which is further increased by your Mastery.

Haste influences the cast speed of your spells. It also influences the cooldown of Fire Blast and the speed at which Living Bomb detonates.

Versatility is a flat-out damage done increase and damage taken reduction.