Fire Mage Frequently Asked Questions — The War Within (11.0.7)

You do not need any specific amount of Critical Strike to make Fire playable. Due to passive talents like Pyrotechnics giving stacking 10% critical strike rating, Critical Mass boosting your overall crit, Firestarter and Searing Touch guaranteeing crits, you can play Fire just fine, even on very low Critical You do not need to worry about having enough Critical Strike levels. Of course, having more Critical Strike is not a bad thing, but it is optional. There is no Critical Strike "cap" (aside from 100%), at which point more Critical Strike is bad. Additionally, there are no meaningful haste caps or breakpoints either.

Having said that, the best way to determine what items you should use is to use Raidbots' Top Gear.

With 11.0.7, Fire is performing very comfortably in all content. Although technically not the best in any content, it performs very well in all content.

In Raids, Fire is very comfortably in the top half of all the classes/specs, only outperformed by a handful of specs. It does great single-target damage, while providing free cleave/AoE damage at the same time. It is also relatively mobile, making it good to learn fights on or deal with mechanics, without giving up damage.

In Mythic+, Fire is performing well as well, only outperformed by a few outlier specs. It can choose to do great AoE damage with decent single-target damage, or great single-target damage while doing completely free AoE damage. Both builds are very competitive in Mythic+ and Fire Mage is generally welcome to any keys, including the highest level keys.

All races are very close in DPS, and it generally does not matter what race you play. Usually, Dwarf or Human is going to be the highest DPS, but it depends on your gear and the content you are doing, and generally all races are within half a percentage of each other. For a full overview of the DPS of every race, check the simulations page.