Fire Mage PvP Guide — Dragonflight Season 4

Fire Mages are one of the most unique caster specializations. The damage profile for Fire heavily relies on the hit-and-run playstyle. Utilizing heavy Crowd Control setups with Combustion on an isolated target makes Fire Mage is a force to be reckoned with. The main class a Mage should be looking to pair with is a Rogue, Shadow Priest, or Warrior. With coordinated stuns into Polymorphs and a strong healer (Holy Priest or Restoration Druid), Fire Mage compositions typically have very large on-demand damage, with high consistent damage as well as long crowd control chains on enemies.

Strengths

• Strong crowd control
• High burst damage
• Multiple casting schools
• Significant instant cast damage

Weaknesses

• Consistent damage is low without the use of Glass Cannon
• Predictable burst damage
• Will struggle versus teams with two melee on it
• The weakest defensively of all three Mage specializations

• Polymorph health regeneration reduced by 50%.
• Polymorph now breaks based on a small damage threshold instead of any damage.
• New PvP Talent: Overpowered Barrier – All barriers absorb 100% more damage and have an additional effect, but last 5 seconds.
  • Ice Barrier – If the barrier is fully absorbed, enemies within 10 yards suffer massive Frost damage and are slowed by 70% for 4 seconds.
  • Blazing Barrier – Reflects 100% of damage absorbed.
  • Prismatic Barrier – If the barrier is fully absorbed, gain Time Warp for 4 seconds.
• Ring of Fire (PvP Talent) has been redesigned – Now disorients enemies who enter for 3 seconds and burns for 3% of their maximum health over its duration (was 18%). Cooldown increased to 45 seconds (was 30 seconds). Overrides Ring of Frost.
• Alter Time is now affected by healing reduction effects, such as dampening.
• Heat Shimmer has been updated – No longer makes Scorch instant-cast. Now increases Scorch damage by 10%.
• Pyrotechnics has been updated – Critical chance increased to 20% (was 10%).
• Controlled Destruction has been updated – Now also triggers from Fireball.
• Master of Flame has been updated – Now increases Mastery: Ignite and Fireball’s damage by 15% when Combustion is not active.
• Call of the Sun King has been updated – No longer grants an additional charge of Phoenix Flames and now grants 15% increased Phoenix Flames damage.
• Fire Blast cooldown increased to 14 seconds (was 12 seconds).
• Hyperthermia duration reduced to 5 seconds (was 6 seconds).