Fire Mage DPS Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (11.2)

Fire has the option to choose between 2 main AoE builds:

• Cleave Based AoE Build;
• Flamestrike AoE Build;

The Cleave based build almost never casts Flamestrike, and instead does its AoE damage by doing its single target rotation and spreading Mastery: Ignite and various other AoE effects that occur passively. Due to this, it does better priority target damage, at the cost of some AoE damage. It also does better boss damage.

The Flamestrike based build in turn swaps a few talents around to pick up various Flamestrike related talents, mostly Quickflame and Mark of the Fire Lord. This build does do better AoE damage on high target counts, at the cost of some single-target and priority damage.

Which build you go highly depends on the damage your group needs. If you are doing content where you do not fight more than 5 targets, you should pretty much always go the cleave based build. If you are in a well coordinated premade group with very large pulls, the Flamestrike build tends to win out. If you are not sure, I recommend the cleave based build.

Note: If you go the cleave based build, you never cast Flamestrike on any target count. Check the Rotation Page for more information on when exactly to cast Flamestrike vs Pyroblast.

• Swap between the Flamestrike and Cleave based builds based on the type of damage profile you need for your current dungeon.
• Replace Mass Barrier for Mass Invisibility if your dungeon route requires the ability to skip enemy packs and have no one else providing the group with invisibility (a Rogue or using potions).
• Swap in/out of Remove Curse for any defensive talent of your choice when there are no Curses to dispel in the dungeon, you plan to do, or if someone else will handle the dispelling.
• Swap in/out of Spellsteal for any defensive talent of your choice when there are no buffs worth dispelling in the dungeon you plan to do.
• Take Ring of Frost or Ice Nova if you need any more crowd-control, at the cost of any of your defensives.
• Replace Blast Wave for any defensive talent of your choosing if you do not need the crowd-control.
• Opt out of Ice Cold (and the nodes leading to it) for any defensive nodes of your choosing if you need the immunity of Ice Block for the dungeon you are doing.

Blast Wave and Dragon's Breath / Supernova are great at handling this affix.

You can soak these without losing any health by activating Alter Time right before soaking them. If Alter Time is not available, using any other defensive, especially Prismatic Barrier should make them easy to survive as well.

Remove Curse should be used to remove Void Rift.