Fire Mage Leveling Guide from 1 to 80 — The War Within (11.0.7)

Last updated on Dec 15, 2024 at 16:00 by Dutchmagoz 66 comments

On this page, you will find our Level by Level Fire Mage leveling guide for The War Within. Make sure to use the slider to make the guide adapt to your level. For more general leveling information, please refer to our Mage leveling guide.

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Fire Mage Leveling Guide for The War Within

1.1.

Fire Mage Leveling Playstyle

Fire Mage, is relatively strong at outdoor content, when you are able to do massive pulls during Combustion Icon Combustion and quickly kill all enemies. However, it struggles if enemies are spread out, as Fire takes a little while to start doing its damage properly, and Fire is not very good at swapping targets often. Unfortunately, these same downsides apply to dungeons as well, as leveling dungeons often are fast with enemies dying quickly. Due to this, the best course of leveling is usually to simply do quests.

1.2.

Leveling Gear for Fire Mage

When leveling up, always choose the piece of loot with the highest item level. The only exception to this rule is if you have a Ring or Necklace with a slightly lower item level, but 2 secondary stats on it instead of 1.

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Level by Level Rotation and Talents

Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!

Level: 70
2.1.

Talents to Level Up as a Fire Mage

Below, you can see the suggested levelling talent build and the order in which to pick the talents while levelling.

The below build is good for both outdoor content and dungeon content.

2.2.

Rotation to Level Up as a Fire Mage

Starting at Level 1, you only have one main attack ability: Frostbolt Icon Frostbolt.

  1. Make sure you keep Arcane Intellect Icon Arcane Intellect up at all times. Keep in mind, if you die, you have to re-cast it. Otherwise just cast it once per hour.
  2. Cast Time Warp Icon Time Warp when you are about to go into a big pull or boss fight. Keep in mind, you can only gain the benefit once every 10 minutes, even though the cooldown is 5 minutes.
  3. During Hyperthermia Icon Hyperthermia, cast Pyroblast Icon Pyroblast.
  4. Use Fire Blast Icon Fire Blast on cooldown.
  5. Cast Arcane Explosion Icon Arcane Explosion when there are 3 or more targets.
  6. Cast Combustion Icon Combustion when it is ready and you have at least a couple of charges of Fire Blast Icon Fire Blast and Phoenix Flames Icon Phoenix Flames.
  7. Cast Pyroblast Icon Pyroblast when you have Hot Streak Icon Hot Streak.
  8. Cast Fire Blast Icon Fire Blast when you have Heating Up Icon Heating Up to get Hot Streak Icon Hot Streak.
  9. Cast Scorch Icon Scorch when you have Heat Shimmer Icon Heat Shimmer to generate Heating Up Icon Heating Up if you do not have Hot Streak Icon Hot Streak.
  10. Cast Phoenix Flames Icon Phoenix Flames to generate Heating Up Icon Heating Up if you do not have Hot Streak Icon Hot Streak.
  11. Cast Scorch Icon Scorch as your filler when the enemy target is below 30% health.
  12. Cast Fireball Icon Fireball as your filler.
2.3.

Fire Mage War Mode Talents for Leveling

In this section we will rank the PvP talents best for leveling and doing solo / small group PvE content.

  1. Glass Cannon Icon Glass Cannon gives you a significant damage buff. The reduced health is usually not a problem in open-world content.
  2. Ring of Fire Icon Ring of Fire puts up a relatively large circle that burns enemies who walk into the outer part of the circle, doing significant damage.
  3. Greater Pyroblast Icon Greater Pyroblast is a very hard-hitting spell, especially on high-health enemies, and it will greatly increase your damage against high-health enemies, like world bosses or rares.
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Congratulations!

Congratulations on reaching level 80! Now that you have hit Level 80, we recommend looking at our Easy mode page and Talents section to learn how to play at max level.

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Changelog

  • 15 Dec. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.7.
  • 21 Oct. 2024: Updated talents for 11.0.5 changes.
  • 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
  • 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
  • 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
  • 12 May 2024: Small rotation update.
  • 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
  • 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
  • 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
  • 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
  • 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2
  • 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
  • 11 Jul. 2023: Upated levelling tree for the new talent trees.
  • 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
  • 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
  • 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
  • 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
  • 30 Nov. 2022: Removed flamestrike line from rotation as it is no longer worth using and no longer talented.
  • 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
  • 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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