Fire Mage DPS The Eternal Palace Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.5

In this section, you will find information and guidance for each boss individually in the Eternal Palace raid as a Fire Mage. These are not complete encounter guides, but rather provide specific tips for the bosses as a Fire Mage.

Fire Mage is looking to be a great pick in The Eternal Palace, due to some indirect buffs with the addition of Essences. It is now capable of delivering good single-target DPS, even on fights not primarily focused around execute DPS, while having "free" AoE or Cleave DPS due to Mastery: Ignite.

As a general rule, most of the raid is single-target or spread cleave. Fire can deal well with the single-target fights, but less so with the spread cleave fights.

We advise you to use the following essences against Abyssal Commander Sivara.

• Rank 3 Condensed Life-Force
  • Major Slot
    • Condensed Life-Force — Rank 3: Guardian of Azeroth + Condensed Life-Force
  • Minor Slots
    • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Lucid Dreams
    • Worldvein Resonance — Rank 3: Lifeblood
• No rank 3 Condensed Life-Force
  • Major Slot
    • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Memory of Lucid Dreams + Lucid Dreams
  • Minor Slots
    • Worldvein Resonance — Rank 3: Lifeblood
    • Condensed Life-Force — Rank 2: Condensed Life-Force

This is a straightforward pure single-target encounter. When you have Frost Mark, make sure make sure to stutter step between your instant-cast Pyroblasts and Meteors. This way, you will have to move less when you do not have any instant cast spells available.

Check the boss mod timers to avoid using Rune of Power right before Inversion, as you might have to move to the other side of the room when this happens.

For more information, please refer to our Abyssal Commander Sivara strategy guide.

We advise you to use the following essences against Blackwater Behemoth.

• Rank 3 Condensed Life-Force
  • Major Slot
    • Condensed Life-Force — Rank 3: Guardian of Azeroth + Condensed Life-Force
  • Minor Slots
    • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Lucid Dreams
    • Worldvein Resonance — Rank 3: Lifeblood
• No rank 3 Condensed Life-Force
  • Major Slot
    • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Memory of Lucid Dreams + Lucid Dreams
  • Minor Slots
    • Worldvein Resonance — Rank 3: Lifeblood
    • Condensed Life-Force — Rank 2: Condensed Life-Force

Make sure you are standing on the floor when using Rune of Power, because using it while swimming above the floor can cause it to sometimes spawn above or below you, which means you will not get the buff.

For more information, please refer to our Blackwater Behemoth strategy guide.

We advise you to use the following essences against Radiance of Azshara.

• Rank 3 Condensed Life-Force
  • Major Slot
    • Condensed Life-Force — Rank 3: Guardian of Azeroth + Condensed Life-Force
  • Minor Slots
    • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Lucid Dreams
    • Worldvein Resonance — Rank 3: Lifeblood
• No rank 3 Condensed Life-Force
  • Major Slot
    • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Memory of Lucid Dreams + Lucid Dreams
  • Minor Slots
    • Worldvein Resonance — Rank 3: Lifeblood
    • Condensed Life-Force — Rank 2: Condensed Life-Force

A split single-target fight with some priority add focus during the intermissions.

During the intermission, focus down the Stormwraith and let Mastery: Ignite do the work for you on the Stormlings. Use Shimmer to negate the knockback of Gale Buffet.

For more information, please refer to our Radiance of Azshara strategy guide.

We advise you to use the following essences against Lady Ashvane.

• Rank 3 Condensed Life-Force
  • Major Slot
    • Condensed Life-Force — Rank 3: Guardian of Azeroth + Condensed Life-Force
  • Minor Slots
    • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Lucid Dreams
    • Worldvein Resonance — Rank 3: Lifeblood
• No rank 3 Condensed Life-Force
  • Major Slot
    • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Memory of Lucid Dreams + Lucid Dreams
  • Minor Slots
    • Worldvein Resonance — Rank 3: Lifeblood
    • Condensed Life-Force — Rank 2: Condensed Life-Force

If you are in a bad position to deal with Briny Bubble properly, you can move out of the group and use Ice Block. This will avoid the bubble from spawning altogether.

The fight generally has odd Bloodlust/ Heroism/ Time Warp timers for Fire's cooldowns (usually around 1 minute, or 3 minutes into the fight) Try to plan your cooldowns with your raid's strategy in mind so they line up with Bloodlust/Heroism/Time Warp usage.

For more information, please refer to our Lady Ashvane strategy guide.

We advise you to use the following essences against Orgozoa.

• Rank 3 Condensed Life-Force
  • Major Slot
    • Condensed Life-Force — Rank 3: Guardian of Azeroth + Condensed Life-Force
  • Minor Slots
    • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Lucid Dreams
    • Worldvein Resonance — Rank 3: Lifeblood
• No rank 3 Condensed Life-Force
  • Major Slot
    • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Memory of Lucid Dreams + Lucid Dreams
  • Minor Slots
    • Worldvein Resonance — Rank 3: Lifeblood
    • Condensed Life-Force — Rank 2: Condensed Life-Force

This is a fairly straightforward fight for Fire Mages. Simply swap to the Zoatroid adds by single-targeting one of them down and letting Mastery: Ignite spread.

Make sure to watch your boss mod timer for Dribbling Ichor, and avoid placing a Rune of Power when it is about to begin, as it will be hard to remain inside your Rune while the Dribbling Ichor is happening.

For more information, please refer to our Orgozoa strategy guide.

We advise you to use the following essences against The Queen's Court.

• Rank 3 Condensed Life-Force
  • Major Slot
    • Condensed Life-Force — Rank 3: Guardian of Azeroth + Condensed Life-Force
  • Minor Slots
    • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Lucid Dreams
    • Worldvein Resonance — Rank 3: Lifeblood
• No rank 3 Condensed Life-Force
  • Major Slot
    • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Memory of Lucid Dreams + Lucid Dreams
  • Minor Slots
    • Worldvein Resonance — Rank 3: Lifeblood
    • Condensed Life-Force — Rank 2: Condensed Life-Force

If you get Frenetic Charge on you, but you / the raid is too low health to soak it together, or there are other reasons making it hard to soak this together, you can use Ice Block to soak it alone.

When you get Repeat Performance, make sure you do not end up casting the same spell twice in a row. This is only really relevant for Fireball. Most of the time, you should be able to avoid this by casting Fire Blast while casting your second Fireball. But if this is not possible, you should try to weave in other spells. Shimmer and Counterspell are great because they can be used without losing any DPS, but still count as a spell to avoid the silence.

For more information, please refer to our The Queen's Court strategy guide.

We advise you to use the following essences against Za'qul, Harbinger of Ny'alotha.

• Rank 3 Condensed Life-Force
  • Major Slot
    • Condensed Life-Force — Rank 3: Guardian of Azeroth + Condensed Life-Force
  • Minor Slots
    • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Lucid Dreams
    • Worldvein Resonance — Rank 3: Lifeblood
• No rank 3 Condensed Life-Force
  • Major Slot
    • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Memory of Lucid Dreams + Lucid Dreams
  • Minor Slots
    • Worldvein Resonance — Rank 3: Lifeblood
    • Condensed Life-Force — Rank 2: Condensed Life-Force

It can be a small DPS gain to run Living Bomb on this fight, if your group is very efficient at getting the Horrific Visions stacked on the boss. Otherwise the standard single target talents apply.

For a Fire Mage, this fight is generally just a single target fight, with occasional swapping of targets. You should swap to Horrific Summoners, but the Horrific Visions should just be cleaved down.

Fire Mages are great at going down into the Delirium Realm, especially when the boss is below 30% health (or close to). This is particularly true when running multiple Blaster Master traits, because the additional haste makes it possible to have extremely high uptime on the Blaster Master buff. However, it can be very challenging to play the Delirium Realm, because Scorch is nearly instant, it can make it so you are getting Hot Streak procs at very odd timings. The best way to avoid accidentally hardcasting Pyroblasts is to always keep moving while the boss is below 30% health. If you are assigned to go down into the Delirium Realm, make sure you have your DPS cooldowns ready when going in. When down there, you should make sure to use Blazing Barrier on cooldown, because you will slowly die while in the realm, and the longer you can stay in there the more DPS you will do. If you are running defensive traits like Cauterizing Blink, you should also try to keep a high uptime on this buff by using Shimmer often. Keep in mind, Cauterize will not proc while in this realm, so you should not rely on Cauterize to heal you up. Additionally, do not forget to use Abyssal Healing Potion and Healthstone in this realm.

For more information, please refer to our Za'qul, Harbinger of Ny'alotha strategy guide.

We advise you to use the following essences against Queen Azshara.

• Rank 3 Condensed Life-Force
  • Major Slot
    • Condensed Life-Force — Rank 3: Guardian of Azeroth + Condensed Life-Force
  • Minor Slots
    • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Lucid Dreams
    • Worldvein Resonance — Rank 3: Lifeblood
• No rank 3 Condensed Life-Force
  • Major Slot
    • Memory of Lucid Dreams — Rank 3: Memory of Lucid Dreams + Lucid Dreams
  • Minor Slots
    • Worldvein Resonance — Rank 3: Lifeblood
    • Condensed Life-Force — Rank 2: Condensed Life-Force

Overall, the standard single-target talents and Essences apply to this boss. However, if your group is struggling to kill the Azshara's Devoted, you can opt into a more AoE focused build, swapping to Living Bomb, and potentially even swapping to Essence of the Focusing Iris, although the latter is not advised, since it is a sizeable DPS loss on the boss, so only consider this if your group truly cannot kill the adds without it.

Azshara is a fight with a lot of things happening at the same time. A Fire Mage's main job will be single-target DPS, while cleaving down lower priority targets.

Optimizing your DPS on Azshara largely comes down to minimizing your movement, which can be hard due to all the mechanics going on. You need to keep a close eye on boss mod timers for mechanics like Arcane Detonation to ensure you do not use cooldowns, such as Rune of Power, right before it goes out.

When the Overzealous Hulk spawns, make sure to not use any crowd control abilities (like Dragon's Breath, or even Flamestrike, since slows also count) to make sure a stronger crowd control ability can be used on it.

If you get the Essence of Azeroth buff, you should simply spam Pyroblasts as filler, instead of Fireball or Scorch. Make sure to use any remaining cooldowns like Rune of Power before the 40 seconds are over, as you will die when it ends. Try to weave in any Fire Blasts when you see a Heating Up proc. If you are running Blaster Master traits, try to keep a good uptime on this as well, as the Fire Blasts are not as important for generating Hot Streak procs when you have the Essence of Azeroth buff.

For more information, please refer to our Queen Azshara strategy guide.