Fire Mage DPS Easy Mode — Midnight Season 1

This build is a great build when learning Fire, or even for more experienced players. It is not absolute highest DPS build, but it is very close to the highest DPS build, while being easier to play and more mobile.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

For a more detailed approach to the best talents, and the very best builds, check out our in-depth Talent page below.

The Mythic+ build swaps out of a few talents to be able to pick up Fuel the Fire and Meteor (and related talents), as these are critical for proper AoE DPS. Note: these are not needed for cleave DPS, like is usually the case in Raids, so you should stick to the Raid build for those even if there are multiple targets.

This build also swaps around some utility spells to provide you with very helpful tools for Mythic+, such as multiple interrupts and dispels.

You can easily import the talent tree below into the game by using the "copy export string" button below.

This build is focused on making Delves as smooth of an experience as possible. It focuses on maximizing your survival and kiting capabilities, by speccing into more mobility and crowd-control, while giving up very minimal DPS. This build is also excellent for outdoor content.

Our goal is to use our strong DPS cooldowns Combustion and get as many critical strikes and instant cast Pyroblasts as possible. Below, we go over a simplified rotation on achieving this:

1. Delay your first Combustion until the target is below 90% health. (due to Firestarter)
2. Use Combustion when available after your target is below 90% health.
3. While Hyperthermia is active, cast Pyroblast.
4. Cast Meteor during Combustion. It will also come up in-between Combustions, but you should delay it until the next Combustion when that happens.
5. During Combustion, use Fire Blasts and Pyroblasts to generate Heating Up and Hot Streaks. When you run out of Fire Blast charges, use Fireball.
6. Cast Pyroblast when you have Hot Streak.
7. Cast Fire Blast to get Hot Streaks when you have Heating Up. Remember: You can cast Fire Blast while casting other spells, so you should cast it during Fireball/ Scorch when it procs, so you can immediately follow the previous cast up with Pyroblast.
8. Cast Scorch as a filler to generate Heating Up / Hot Streak if the target is below 30% health.
9. Cast Fireball as a filler to generate Heating Up / Hot Streak when the target is above 30% health.

On anything less than 4 targets, you should stick to the single-target rotation.

On 4 targets or more, you follow the single-target rotation, with one critical change: Spend Hot Streak procs on Flamestrike instead of Pyroblast. That's it!

Keep in mind that this is a simplified rotation. If you want to learn how to get the most out of your character, check out our full rotation page below.

Fire has the following Apex Talent:

• Fired Up: Consuming Hot Streak has a chance to grant you a stack of Fired Up, which increases your fire damage. Multiple applications may overlap.
• Fired Up: Gaining Fired Up reduces your Fire Blast cooldown by 2.5 seconds per point, 2 points.
• Fired Up: Combustion greatly increases the chance of getting Fired Up, reducing each time you proc Fired Up. Also causes Fired Up to extend Combustion by 1 second.

The Apex Talent for Fire grants a lot of damage for both Hero Specs, and is virtually always taken. Fired Up is a new proc which grants a large amount of bonus damage whenever it procs, which is just a very nice passive bonus. However, even more impactful is the massive 5 second Fire Blast cooldown reduction when it procs, which happens quite frequently, especially during Combustion.

This Fire Blast cooldown reduction makes it so you barely run out of Fire Blast charges during Combustion, often only running out towards the very end of Combustion. This allows you to chain Pyroblast into Fire Blast for almost the entire duration of Combustion without needing to weave in any other spells.

All these extra Fire Blast charges do cause a bit of a weird luxury "problem", where it relatively devalues Pyroclasm, because hard-casting Pyroblast during Combustion risks overcapping Fire Blast charges, making it difficult to hard-cast during Combustion. Due to this, you often end up having to delay the hard-casts until Combustion is over.

Our Tier Sets for Season 1 are:

• Mage Fire 12.0 Class Set 2pc: Pyroblast and Flamestrike deal 6% increased damage.
• Mage Fire 12.0 Class Set 4pc: Casting Pyroblast or Flamestrike reduces the cooldown of Fire Blast by 0.30 sec.

Due to the large rework Fire received coming into Midnight, the first Tier-Set is a relatively straight-forward set. The 2-set is a simple damage increase, but the 4-set grants cooldown reduction on Fire Blast. This makes the spec feel faster and allow you to use more instant-cast Pyroblast / Flamestrikes, but it does not cause any changes in your decision making when playing.

Patch 11.1.7 introduced two new combat related functionalities, the Assisted Highlight, and the Single-Button Assistant. For a full overview on how to enable these features and all of their details, check out our Combat Assistant page.

The Assisted Highlight rotation is a relatively good rotation, so following it can be a good way to learn the rotation, but you will be giving up a decent chunk of damage, around 10-20% compared to following the rotation on this page. Note that Fire is unique in that it can cast spells while using other spells, like Fire Blast. Due to this, seeing the next spell is sometimes not enough, as you need to also know when exactly you should cast it during the current spell. Due to this, I highly recommend you also read the basic rotation when using the Assisted Highlight so you know when to cast the spells that are highlighted.

The Single-Button assistant unfortunately has some issues for Fire, causing it to be around 30-40% less damage than the rotation on this page. The global-cooldown penalty applied is a large issue for Fire, because Fire relies on queueing certain spells at the same time (like Fireball into Pyroblast), which the single-button assistant does not allow you to do. Additionally, Fire simply has very many instant-cast spells, which are also hurt by the global-cooldown penalty, leading to this ~30-40% damage loss when using the Single-Button Assistant.

The Single-Button assistance can be useful, especially when you are new to the spec, or when learning new boss mechanics, as it will allow you to focus fully on the boss mechanics instead of the rotation. However, if you want to maximize your damage, I recommend you either follow the Highlighted rotation, or the rotation on this page due to the Single-Button rotation's 30-40% damage loss.

Note that neither the Single-Button rotation nor the Assisted Highlight rotation will cast/highlight Combustion, racial cooldowns, or items, like trinkets, so you will have to use these manually.

• Make sure to use Combustion on cooldown, as the Combat Assistant will not use/highlight this.
• Use your trinkets, potions, racial cooldowns (like Berserking) or other on-use cooldowns during Combustion.
• If using the One-Button Assistant, make sure to press the button a lot, as Fire Blast can be cast while casting other spells, so you will have to press the button twice to cast both the Fire Blast and the spell after it.