The Best Fire Mage PvE/Raids DPS build [BFA 8.2] (2024)

1. Intellect - This is Fire Mage's primary statistic. Itprovides him with Spell Power and increases Damage done by his spells.

2. Mastery - Fire Mages Mastery: Ignitemakes your target burn foran additional 6% of the Damage done by your Flamestrike, Meteor, Pyroblast, Scorch, Fire Blast, andFireball over the next 9s. Reapplying this effect adds the remaining damage to your new Ignite. It also gives your Ignite a chance to spread to another nearby Target every 2 seconds. This stat is especially great for Cleave and AoE situations.

3. Haste -Decreases your Global Cooldowns, and increases the speed of your Casts. Haste also reduces the Cooldown ofyour Fire Blastand increases the tick rateand explosion speed of your Living Bomb.

4. Versatility -Straight up Incoming Damage Decrease and Damage Done Increase.

5. Critical Strike -Increases your chance to deal Double (critical) Damage with spells and abilities. Critical Strike synergizes well with your Pyroblast and Flamestrike, thanks to the Hot Streak passive.

Firestarter makes your Pyroblast and Fireball always Crit against Targets above 90% of their total Health. This is a situationally good Talent that could be selected if an Encounter warrants it.

Pyromaniac gives your Hot Streak empowered Flamestrike and Pyroblast casts an 8% chance to reactivate Hot Streak immediately. This talent is too RNG dependant to be worth consideration in most encounters.

Blazing Soul causes your Blink to surround you with the Blazing Barrier that absorbs Damage equal to 20% of your total Health for the 60s. This Talent boosts your survivability slightly but is a lot less flexible than the Shimmer.

Blast Wave knocks back, damages and slows down (by 70% for 4 seconds) all enemies within 8 yards around you. It is a good Crowd Control Talent, that provides you with an additional Kiting tool; it has 25-second Cooldown. That being said, it is useful mostly in Mythic+.

Incanter's Flowgives you a sustained damage bonus that starts at 4%, builds up to 20% over 10 seconds, and then resets back to 4% just to start building up again. This talent doesn't restrict your mobility, and therefore could be selected instead of theRune of Powerfor very dynamic encounters.

Mirror Imagesummons 3 copies of you, which cast spells at your Target and gain Enemy's attention; Copies last for the 40s. This, while "classic" gives the worst overall damage boost, especially in AoE heavy encounters,and should not be picked.

Alexstrasza's Fury causes your Dragon's Breath to contribute towards Hot Streak, and always deal Critical Damage. This is a very strong option for AoE-heavy encounters, but it requires you to be in the melee range.

Phoenix Flames is an active ability that has 3 charges and 30-second recharge time. It deals solid Damage to your primary Target and some splash Damage to all enemies around it; Phoenix Flames always deals Critical Damage. This Talent provides you with solid Burst AoE Damage and should be chosen if an Encounter requires it.

Ice Ward grants a second charge to your Frost Nova ability.

Ring of Frost lets you summon a Ring on the target location; up to 10 enemies entering the Ring will be incapacitated for 10 seconds.

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Flame Patch causes your Flamestrike to deal additional Damage over 8 seconds to all enemies within its area of effect, byigniting the ground that it is cast upon. This is a good option for dealing with large waves of Targets, that can be grouped up.

Living Bomb applies a short DoT effect on your Target. After the effect ends, the Bomb explodes, damaging all enemies within the 10yd radius, and affecting them with Living Bomb. This is the best choice for 10+ Targets, and it also allows you to deal with your priority Target more effectively (as it doesn't require you to spend Hot Streak procs on it)than Flame Patch does.

Kindling makes your Pyroblast, Fire Blast, and Fireball critical hits reduce the Cooldown of Combustion by 1s. This Talent is a good choice for dynamic encounters that feature multiple Targets, and/or frequent burn phases, but it does not outperform Meteor most of the time.

Pyroclasm is a passive ability that activates 15% of the time when you spend your Hot Streak proc, and causes your next non-instant Pyroblast to deal 225% bonus Damage; it stacks up to 2 times. This might be a decent choice for encounters that feature 1 Target that moves around a lot.

1. Rune of Powerif Combustion available

2. Meteoron Cooldown if the Rune of Power is active

3. Combustion on Cooldown

4. Rune of Poweron 2 charges or when about to gain a second charge

5. Pyroblastwith a Hot Streak proc

6. Dragon's Breathwith Combustion active if Fire Blast is not available

7. Fire Blastafter scoring a Critical Hit (after you gain the Heating Up status)

8. Scorchfor Hot Streak generation if Targetis < 30% Health

9. Fireball

10. Scorchto avoid downtime

1. Rune of Powerif available

2. Meteoron Cooldownif theRune of Poweris active

3. Combustion on Cooldown

4. Flamestrikewith Hot Streak active

5. Fire Blastafter scoring a Critical Hit (after you gain the Heating Up status)

6. Dragon's Breath

7. Fireball to avoid downtime

1. Stack and manage your Cooldowns. Rune of Power has a very strong synergy with Combustion, so if Combustion comes back up when you don't have the Rune active, delay it to cast them both at the same time. Also, you should NEVER activate your cooldowns if there is a movement phase coming up, as Rune of Power requires you to stay stationary, for its duration, to be effective!

2. Always be casting! Utilize your instant-cast spells during movement to avoid downtime - this will increase your Damage output considerably.

3. Always analyze and try to improve upon your mistakes, because practice makes perfect.