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| Class: | Mage |
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| Tree: | Fire |
| Build: | Example Tree |
| Category: | Raiding |
| Kyth <Fusion> |
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| 56 guides |
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| Created: 30 Oct 2009 Updated: 14 weeks ago |
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Audience
This guide is for people new to fire mage, or curious about the very basics of the tree.
Guide
This does not cover Frostfire, which is a separate build for mages.
The Talents
The linked build is the basic build. You may see variations that pick up blastwave/dragon's breath (not optimal dps builds) or Arcane Meditation (for more mana efficiency.)
Glyphs
Do not use the Scorch glyph unless you're the only mage scorching. And even then, unless you have to refresh it more than once every two minutes, it's not worth it.
If you do need to use the Scorch glyph, drop Fireball for it, not Molten Armor.
Note: this will change in 3.3.
How-To
Fire is not a "rotation", it's a priority list.
In order of decreasing priority:
- Keep up scorch if you need to.
- If scorch is up, and you have a Hot Streak pyro, use it.
- If Living Bomb needs to be refreshed, refresh it (even on a single target)
- Otherwise, fireball
And most importantly: Never ever interrupt any spell in order to use a pyroblast no matter what.
I have a couple of questions here Kyth. My guild has been looking for a good Fire mage. We've found one willing to go fire, but her talents seem to be 20/51/0 (which, unless I'm mistaken, was a build you showed us around Ulduar). Is that a Frostfire build?
Forgive me if the questions seem noobish, but my main (as you know) is a DK. I've played an Arcane mage before, but not Fire or Frost.
Here goes:
1. Why the shift to Frost? I can completely understand 11 points for Icy Veins, the cooldown and hit rating, but what about Piercing Ice and Frost Channeling? Why all 3/3 points into Ice Shards? What Frost Spells will you be using (besides obvious ones like Blizzard) for main DPS?
2. Now one thing I find particularly interesting in the difference of builds is that you're putting points into Incineration and Improved Fire Blast over Improved Fireball. Isn't Fireball a pretty important basic DPS spell even though it isn't a priority one like the others?
I might have more later, but humor me here!
Article author
No it was me pasting in my frostfire article from the test site into the fire article and not changing everything. I was testing the class guides to see if the issues I was having were with your article or articles in general.
It's updated now and is completely for fire.