Fire Mage PvP Talents and Builds (Dragonflight / 10.0.7)
Choosing the right PvP and PvE talents is a prerequisite to proper performance in PvP. This guide goes through the various talent choices available to you as a Fire Mage and gives you the best combinations you can take to ensure success.
This page is part of our Fire Mage PvP Guide.
Talent Choices for Fire Mages
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.
Talents Summary
Mage Tree Talent Highlights
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.
Mass Polymorph. This talent has been highly speculated upon, and it has yet to see much value, Fire Mages often like to Crowd Control only one target with Polymorph, and there is also the ability to chain
Dragon's Breath into
Ring of Frost if needed.
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.
Fire Mage Tree Talent Highlights
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 higher consistant damage with spammable
Pyroblasts throughout matches.
PvP Talents for Fire Mages
You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents, each has uses, 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.
Mandatory PvP Talents
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.
Situational PvP Talents
If you can stand still throughout an arena match,
Flamecannon is another great choice. This talent can also
help with dealing with melee because it increases your maximum health.
Still, it will primarily be used when you can free-cast
Fireballs. You will
also be able to cast fire spells from further away.
Prismatic Cloak reduces magical damage you take by 50% for 2 seconds
after you
Blink or
Shimmer. This talent is great against
teams with magical spells that deal large amounts of damage.
Netherwind Armor reduces the chance you will suffer a critical strike
by 10%. This is very good for melee cleave teams that have potent spells
that
if they crit, you could lose a large amount of health from.
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 PvP talent for Fire Mages in Dragonflight, which
greatly increases Fireball and Scorch's damage but decreases maximum HP. This
talent also seems quite volatile, and often Fire Mage's playstyle does not
rely on
Fireball and
Scorch to deal significant damage.
Precognition is a new PvP talent introduced in Dragonflight. This
allows
for outplay potential from the caster when the enemy misses interrupts on you.
This is strong for Fire Mage, however, this specialization has the most classes
of schools to cast from compared to the other two.
Changelog
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- 30 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Pre-patch.
- 31 Jul. 2022: Updated for Shadowlands Season 4.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 28 Feb. 2022: Page updated for Patch 9.2.
- 17 Nov. 2021: Page updated for Patch 9.1.5.
- 04 Jul. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1 of Shadowlands.
- 19 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 10 Dec. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands Season 1.
- 14 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands pre-patch.
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