FIRE MAGE
Fire Mage is built on the Fire talent tree and plays as a damage dealer in raids. The tree has 17 talents: 1 new in Forever, 10 changed from Classic.
FIRE GUIDE
We'll write the Fire Mage rotation, stat priority and recommended build as the beta data settles. For now, see the talent tree below, the talent calculator and the class discussions on the forum.
WHAT IT BRINGS TO A RAID
The catalogue has no raid contribution tied only to Fire; the ones below apply to every Mage.
DIFFERENT IN FOREVER
- Improved Scorch: Raised the raid's Fire damage in Classic; in Forever it only boosts the mage's own damage.
EVERY MAGE BRINGS
Intellect (Arcane Brilliance)DecurseInterruptWater and foodCC: Humanoid
DETAILS ON THE CLASS PAGE →TALENTS
Hover or tap a talent to read it below. Text is for the final rank.
2Wake of Fire
3Incineration
5Improved Fireball
5Ignite
2Flame Throwing
3Impact
3Burning Soul
3Improved Flamestrike
1Pyroblast
3Improved Scorch
2Improved Fire Ward
1Heating Up
3Master of Elements
3Critical Mass
1Blast Wave
5Fire Power
1Combustion- Wake of FireRow 1 · 2 rankChangedClassic name: Improved Fire Blast
Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 2 sec. Killing a non-trivial target increases the critical strike chance of your next Fire Blast cast within 30 sec by 50%.
- IncinerationRow 1 · 3 rankChangedClassic name: Incinerate
Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire Blast, Ice Lance, Arcane Blast, and Scorch spells by 6%.
- Improved FireballRow 1 · 5 rankChanged
Reduces the casting time of your Fireball and Frostfire Bolt spells by 0.5 sec.
- IgniteRow 2 · 5 rank
Your critical strikes from Fire damage spells cause the target to burn for an additional 40% of your spell's damage over 4 sec.
- Flame ThrowingRow 2 · 2 rank
Increases the range of your Fire spells by 6 yards.
- ImpactRow 2 · 3 rankChanged
Gives your Fire spells a 10% chance to stun the target for 2 sec.
- Burning SoulRow 3 · 3 rankChanged
Gives your Fire spells a 70% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage and reduces the threat caused by your Fire spells by 30%.
- Improved FlamestrikeRow 3 · 3 rank
Increases the critical strike chance of your Flamestrike spell by 15%.
- PyroblastRow 3 · 1 rank · activeChanged
Hurls an immense fiery boulder that causes 101 to 131 Fire damage and an additional 44 Fire damage over 12 sec.
- Improved ScorchRow 4 · 3 rankChanged
Your Scorch spell has a 100% chance to cause your target to be vulnerable to Fire damage. This vulnerability increases all Fire damage you deal to your target by 3% and lasts 30 sec, stacking up to 5 times.
- Improved Fire WardRow 4 · 2 rank
Causes your Fire Ward to have a 20% chance to reflect Fire spells while active.
- Heating UpRow 4 · 1 rankNew
Non-periodic critical strikes with Fireball, Frostfire Bolt, Fire Blast, and Scorch reduce the cast time of your next Pyroblast cast within 20 sec by 25%, stacking up to 3 times.
- Master of ElementsRow 4 · 3 rankChanged
Your Fire and Frost critical strikes will refund 30% of their base mana cost.
- Critical MassRow 5 · 3 rank
Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire spells by 6%.
- Blast WaveRow 5 · 1 rank · activeChanged
A wave of flame radiates outward from the caster, damaging all enemies caught within the blast for 154 to 184 Fire damage, and Dazing them for 50% reduced movement speed for 6 sec.
- Fire PowerRow 6 · 5 rank
Increases the damage done by your Fire spells by 10%.
- CombustionRow 7 · 1 rank · activeChanged
When activated, this spell causes each of your Fire damage spell hits to increase your critical strike chance with Fire damage spells by 10%. This effect lasts until you have caused 3 non-periodic critical strikes with Fire spells.
Talent, spell, race and raid data: talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0), from the WoW Forever beta client; data date 2026-10-14. Numbers can lag live tuning. Spell names, icons and tooltip text belong to Blizzard Entertainment. Mage talent calculator.