Season of Discovery Fire Mage DPS Guide
Welcome to our Fire Mage guide for WoW Classic - Season of Discovery, tailored for PvE content. Here, you will learn how to play the Mage class as a Fire Mage. Click the links below to navigate the guide or read this page for a short introduction.
Overview
Fire Mages have always been a top DPS spec as long as they can avoid Fire
immunities, and Mages in general are also full of tricks, such as Polymorph,
and
Blink, or the new heal
Regeneration and out of combat
resurrection,
Scroll of Reintegration!
They also have great convenience tools, such as Teleport: Stormwind,
Portal: Stormwind,
Conjure Water, and
Conjure Food.
Highest overall single and area damage Mage specialization
Great scaling with gear stats and critical strike in particular
Engaging rotation with reacting to
Hot Streak procs being a core component
Fire needs more Hit to cap than Arcane
Higher threat generation than other Mage specs
Requires high critical strike for scaling to really kick in
Season of Discovery
Fire Mages in Season of Discovery become masters of area damage with the new
Living Flame and
Living Bomb runes, and their powerful single
target damage only gets better with the addition of the
Burnout,
Hot Streak, and
Spell Power runes! Even in PvP, if you are not
focused, you can demolish entire battlegrounds with your area spells from a very
safe distance.
Through the addition of entirely new abilities and runes, the rotation, gearing options, and talent decisions for Fire Mage has changed drastically with the coming of Season of Discovery. Browse the guides in the Table of Content at the top of this page to find all the information you'll need to master this new game mode!
Profession Changes
Fire Mages will still want to take Engineering, but with more
of an emphasis on Tailoring rather than Mining.
Tailoring is especially powerful in Season of Discovery due to special bind on pickup
crafts such as Gneuro-Linked Arcano-Filament Monocle and
Fractured Mind Pauldrons,
of which we expect there will be more of in the future!
Rune Engravings
The main feature of Season of Discovery is the new Rune Discovery system, which allows you to discover and attach special abilities to your gear slots after finding them across the world. We list all of Mage's runes and where they can be located in the guide below:
Changelog
- 10 Jul. 2024: Updated for Phase 4.
- 02 Apr. 2024: Updated introduction for Phase 3.
- 15 Feb. 2024: Updated introduction for Phase 2.
- 15 Dec. 2023: Removed mention of portals as they are beyond level 25.
- 09 Dec. 2023: Typo fix with Regeneration icon.
More Classic Mage Guides
More Season of Discovery Class Guides
Classic Dungeon Guides
Classic Profession Guides
Classic Reputation Guides

This guide has been written by Seksi, original vanilla player and multi-class player, currently playing on Gehennas Horde. You can find him on the Classic Warrior, Mage and Shaman Discords, as well as the Icy Veins Discord.
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