Fire Mage PvP Talents and Builds (Season 4)

While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.

• Slow. This talent is returning for Dragonflight, being very helpful with the mobility creep. With this talent, you can instantly apply Slow, and with the Mass Slow talent, it applies as an AoE slow as well.
• Blast Wave. A favorite from previous expansions, Blast Wave, returns in Dragonflight acting as it once did, giving an explosion effect around the caster and slowing enemies after. This is extremely strong to use when enemies are using heavy offensive cooldowns.
• Ice Nova. Also, a strong root that you can utilize to keep enemies far away. Typically, combining a Blast Wave into Ice Nova will grant you some additional time away from your enemies.
• Shifting Power. The Previous Night Fae covenant ability is now near the end of the Mage tree; this is an exceptional talent as resetting cooldowns, especially for Fire Mage, is quite strong.
• Time Manipulation is another new talent which makes Fire Blast reset the cooldown of loss of control effects by 2 seconds. This works especially well with Dragon's Breath, making it a significantly shorter cooldown.
• Time Anomaly, used for strong, consistant damage, giving procs of Combustion, Fire Blast charges, or even Time Warp.

• Firemind. a previous Azerite Trait, now granting bonus intellect based on consuming Hot Streak
• Flame Accelerant. A replacement for Tinder, granting the next Fireball increased damage and a reduced cast time.
• Fevered Incantation. A mighty stacking damage increase for hitting critical strikes consecutively.
• Fiery Rush. This talent recharges Fire Blast and Phoenix Flames cooldowns by 50% during Combustion. This is quite strong to maximize your rotation during Combustion.
• Hyperthermia. This capstone talent enables you to get procs that give you even greater consistent damage with spammable Pyroblasts throughout matches.

• As of Patch 10.2.5, Living Bomb has received a significant buff, increasing the damage and usefulness of the talent. Opting to use a Flamestrike build in combination with Living Bomb can prove very effective against classes with many minions, such as Unholy Death Knight or Demonology Warlock.
• Ice Cold, a new talent replacing Ice Block, that acts as a sizeable damage reduction that is not on the Global Cooldown. With the cooldown still being 4 minutes, it is unlikely that this talent will be used often.
• Mass Invisibility, Originally an Arcane Mage-only talent, now available to all specializations of Mage, Mass invisibility can be used well in PvP scenarios to get restealths for your team, allow healers to drop combat to drink water, or use it to set up cc.
• Unleashed Inferno, A capstone for the Fire Mage tree, essentially replaces previous Rune of Power, and grants a significant buff to damage during Combustion.
• Deep Impact, a new talent that empowers Meteor to do sizable damage and reduce the cooldown of the ability, making this very strong for high-burst builds of Fire Mage.

You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents; each has used, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful but can be replaced with other PvP talents depending on your team's goal.

With Patch 10.1.5, there have been a few new PvP talents added to the Mage talent trees. Improved Mass Invisibility, Master Shepherd and Ethereal Blink are three new talents for the Fire Mage trees.

Ring of Fire is a new PvP Talent for Mages and can provide high sustained damage if enemies are stuck in it. Typically, pairing this ability with a stun to get maximum value is where this ability shines.

Glass Cannon is a new and updated PvP talent for Fire Mages in Dragonflight, which greatly increases Fireball, Scorch, and Ignite's damage but decreases maximum HP. This talent also seems quite volatile and could see potential use paired with Flamecannon free-casting from far away.

Flamecannon is another great choice if you are able to keep large amounts of distance between your enemies. It will primarily be used when you can free-cast spells from long distances. You will also be able to cast fire spells from further away.

Improved Mass Invisibility is a new talent as of 10.1.5 that allows you to utilize Mass Invisibility in combat and reduce the cooldown significantly. This talent is absolutely mandatory if you wish to take Mass Invisibility in any PvP Scenario, or else it will be borderline useless. This talent is a hard choice to take, as you often want the three talents listed above.

Pyrokinesis reduces the cooldown of your primary burst cooldown, Combustion, every time you deal damage with Fireball. This is important because this will make Combustion a shorter cooldown than the enemy trinket. If an enemy does not have a trinket when you have Combustion, you can kill them in a stun.

Ice Wall is a talent added in Shadowlands that allows you to place a wall of ice in a specific area for 15 seconds with 40% of your maximum health. This wall obstructs the line of sight and can be used to block enemies from running away or block a line of sight from a healer to a damage class. This could be good in Arena or Rated Battlegrounds. This ability has a lot of creativity, and you can use it in many different ways.

Glass Cannon is a new and updated PvP talent for Fire Mages in Dragonflight, which greatly increases Fireball, Scorch, and Ignite's damage but decreases maximum HP. This talent also seems quite volatile and could see potential use paired with Flamecannon free-casting from far away.

World in Flames is a new and reworked PvP talent for Fire in 10.1, allowing Flamestrike to deal more damage based on how close the enemy is to the center of the radius. This talent could be especially strong in Battlegrounds where you are able to freecast Flamestrikes with Glass Cannon and Flamecannon or against classes with many minions, where Living Bomb can ignite off the pets.

Master Shepherd is a new talent allowing Polymorph to no longer heal enemies, as well as grant Versatility and Speed bonuses. This talent will highly be opted for, making Polymorph not heal your enemies to full health.