Fire Mage PvP Talents and Builds (Dragonflight 10.2)
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.
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 greater consistent damage with spammable
Pyroblasts throughout matches.
Specific 10.1.5 Mage Talent Highlights
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.
PvP Talents for Fire Mages
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.
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.
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.
Situational PvP Talents
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.
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.
Changelog
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7 and better aligned talents
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5
- 09 May 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.1.
- 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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