Introduction
Welcome to Method’s Fire Mage class guide.
My name is Tamir, also known as tam1h. I've been pushing high mythic+ keys since Legion as a mage and raiding since Warlords of Draenor. I have been raiding the top 30 scene throughout most of Shadowlands and Dragonflight.
What has changed
Patch 11.2 Fire Mage Changes
With Patch 11.2, Mage didn't get that many changes. However, the most important change in this Patch is that the Tier Set Bonus has moved from being spec based to hero talent based; this means that the tier set will be based on the hero talent you have active and changes accordingly.
Since our original Frostfire tier set was probably a little bit over-tuned, Blizzard has nerfed the power from the tier set and moved it into our toolkit.
Pyroblast Damage has increased by 30%.
Flamestrike Damage is increased by 30%.
Time Anomaly has been removed.
Inspired intellect has been buffed to 6% additional intellect.
All damage done is increased by 3%.
The Tier Set for Frostfire took a massive hit, so going forward Sunfury will most likely be the Hero Talent that we play in Season 3.
Fire Mage Changes for The War Within
Going into The War Within, mages generally but also Fire mages specifically are getting significant changes with some talents shifting around, some talents being removed and some new talents also being added.
I will note the most important changes that will affect fire mage below.
One of the main features going in the War Within is we are getting a new talents tree called Hero talents. Fire is getting two new talent trees to play with which will define our playstyle. The two new Hero Trees are called Sunfury and Frostfire, which we’ll talk about briefly in the Talent and Playstyle sections.
- Mass barrier is now a 3 minute CD
- Time warp is being removed (no double lust anymore)
- Supernova is on the same choice as Dragon’s Breath
- Ice nova and Ring of frost share the same choice
- Barrier Diffusion - whenever one of your barriers is removed, reduce its cooldown by 4 seconds (works very well with mass barrier)
- Sun King's Blessing stacks required has been increased from 8 to 10
- Phoenix Reborn has been redesigned to work with our previous S2 Tier set from Dragonflight which gives us the refunds on Phoenix Flames and increase the damage by 100%
- Living bomb is now a passive talent that is tied into our Hot Streak (see more in the next section)