Fire Mage Leveling Guide
Fire Mage Leveling Guide
11.0.5 - The War Within
Last Updated:December 11, 2024|Changelog
Welcome to the Fire Mage leveling guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0.5! In this guide, you find a small overview of good talents to pick, a simplified rotation as well as a shopping list to prepare you for your leveling journey!
If you are already level 80, don't hesitate to check out the Mythic+ or Raid guide instead!
Talents
Fire Mage
Sunfury Level 70
Spec Tree
- Unleashed Inferno
- Finally, after a couple of years Sun King's Blessing is not taken in all forms of content for Fire Mages! Sun King's Blessing is behind in both single and AoE scenarios currently. Sun King's Blessing damage profile could make a comeback with how it interacts with how Mythic+ works in the future though.
- Phoenix Reborn
- This is a returning tier set turned into a talent. This talent gives you more Phoenix Flames charges and empowers them.
- Kindling
- This is a big part of why Fire Mages have Combustion up so often. This talent ends up reducing your Combustion to around a minute cooldown.
- Hyperthermia
- Allows you to spam cast Pyroblast while this buff is active. This gives you a nice break in the gameplay whenever this procs or when you receive this buff from Memory of Al'ar.
Class Tree
- Shifting Power
- This spell is used after your cooldowns to get them back quicker.
- Spellsteal
- There are a lot of mechanics you can Spellsteal to gain their benefit.
- Time Anomaly
- Be ready to react to the procs you get from this talent, they can impact your rotation differently depending on when they proc.
- Mass Barrier
- Make sure to use Mass Barrier to help your dungeon teammates out.
- Shimmer
- This talent node is the main reason mage in general has such high mobility. Being castable while casting and ignoring the GCD, it is essential you manage your Shimmer well to achieve 100% uptime on DPS during any encounter.
Hero Talents
- Sunfury performs better than Frostfire while leveling simply because it does more damage.
- Merely a Setback gives you extra defensives after casting your Prismatic Barrier.
- Arcane Soul is a very powerful as it allows you to spam cast Pyroblast or even Flamestrike if multiple enemies are low health.
- Mobs should die quickly after reaching execute due to Scorch.
Leveling Talent Points
Milestones: 0 / 10
- Choose Sunfury as your Hero Talent.
- Pick Invocation: Arcane Phoenix.
- Pick Lessons in Debilitation.
- Pick Codex of the Sunstriders.
- Pick Memory of Al'ar.
- Pick Mana Cascade.
- Pick Burden of Power.
- Pick Glorious Incandescence
- Pick Rondurmancy.
- Pick Merely a Setback.
- Pick Sunfury Execution.
Rotation
Fire Mage
Single-Target
- The goal of your single target opener rotation is to enter Combustion as quickly as you can while reacting to your Pyroblast crits.
Combustion Priority List
- Cast Pyroblast with Hot Streak.
- Cast Fire Blast with Heating up.
- Cast Phoenix Flames with Heating up if you have Phoenix Reborn or to prevent overcapping Phoenix Flames.
- Cast Scorch with Heat Shimmer.
- Cast Phoenix Flames.
- Cast Scorch .
Outside of Combustion Priority List
- Cast Shifting Power after Hyperthermia.
- Cast Pyroblast with Hot Streak.
- Cast Fire Blast with Heating up.
- Cast Phoenix Flames.
- Cast Scorch with Heat Shimmer.
- Cast Scorch if the target is below 30% health.
- Cast Fireball.
AoE
- When using this build, the rotation is exactly the same as single target. Because of Ignite, your damage is passively spread when casting Fire Blast to the mobs surrounding the main mob you are targeting. This means that you target the priority mob and Pyroblast away!
- Flamestrike can be used if the mobs are low health because Ignite does not have time to deal damage.
Shopping List
Fire Mage
Milestones: 0 / 12
- 20x Phial of Tepid Versatility
- 40x Fried Bonefish
- 40x Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
- 80x Potion of Withering Dreams
- 4x Howling Rune
- Dreambound Augment Rune -- Requires Reputation
or - 10x Draconic Augment Rune
- 20x Goblin Glider Kit
- Nice to either prevent yourself from dying to fall damage or to fly over small gaps without mounting up.
- 20x Gunshoes
- Use to gain a 200% movement speed & water walking buff for 25 seconds.
- Use the "walk" toggle to slow down if you want to hand in quests.
- Buy 1x Light-Step Hoofplates and use it as your mount equipment.
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Banner of Cooperation
- Alliance/Stormwind: Banner of Cooperation
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Standard of Unity
- Alliance/Stormwind: Standard of Unity
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Battle Standard of Coordination
- Alliance/Stormwind: Battle Standard of Coordination
Credits
Written by: Hopeful
Reviewed by: Soda