Fire Mage Gearing Guide

The War Within Season 2 Fire Mage Tier Set Bonus:

• 2 Set: Your spells and abilities have a chance to hit a Jackpot! reducing the cooldown of Combustion by 2 sec. Casting Combustion always hits a Jackpot! at 200% increased effectiveness.
• 4 Set: When you hit a Jackpot! your damage is increased by 15% for 7 sec. If you would gain Jackpot! from Combustion the duration is increased by 100%.

Tier Set Conclusion:

I think it’s pretty safe to say that fire is definitely the winner out of the 3 specs when it comes to tier sets. The CDR on combustion from the 2p in conjunction with our Unleashed Inferno / Kindling talents is going to be extremely noticeable, roughly around a 40-45 sec combustion timer depending on uptime, which is great.

With the 4 Set, since we will be in combustion so often, due to unleashed inferno and hypothermia, we basically treat it that every time we have combustion (our own combustion, and not a time anomaly proc), we do 15% increase damage.

It’s important to note, that from testing, this has to be our OWN combustion activated to gain the 15% increase damage from the Jackpot Effect. Similar to how other effects previously did not work on SKB, but strictly on Combustion.

Overall, I'm extremely happy with the Fire tier set and you should be too!

This is the absolute best in slot setup you could have for Fire Mage, combined from both M+ and raid items.

With that being said, we appreciate that not everyone enjoys raiding, so I will make a list for alternative items you can get from Mythic+ to be as geared as possible.

Keep in mind that this is not a replacement for siming your character, as you will likely not have all these items at once, so to determine what is your next upgrade, always sim yourself.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

The following Trinkets are good trinkets for Fire Mage:

• Eye of Kezan - Basically bis for all casters
• House of Cards - Very strong M+ Trinket and strong in raid. It gets stronger every time we use it, so it is stronger in longer fights.
• Mug’s Moxie Jug - Our 2nd bis trinket, this trinket is extremely powerful for Fire Mage, since all the crit transform into mastery for us during combustion.
• Signet of the Priory - a very strong on use trinket for fire, it’s not as good as the one listed above, but is still a strong choice.
• Carved Blazikon Wax - Decently strong trinket that procs versatility, which transforms versatility into damage for us. The only downside is that we have to stay in the light zone, similar to the rune of power effect.
• Then, any hero track trinket you get from Mythic+ should honestly be ok until you get the BIS ones.

For Fire Mage, the embellishment I will recommend is Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension with Writhing Armor Banding or 2x Duskthread Lining (Versatility Embellishment), Ascension is better in the raid.

Embellishments have very little, to almost no effect on our damage, so you can go with whatever you prefer. I'm personally going to go with the 2x Duskthread Lining (Versatility), since it makes me a tiny bit more tanky and it’s pretty good for Mythic+.

Hyperthread Wristwraps

The famous mechagon bracers from the mechagon workshop dungeon are making a return in Patch 11.1, and according to sims, it’s around a 0.6-0.8% increase to play vs normal bracers.

Keep in mind that you lose secondary stats, so if you are low on haste, I wouldn’t recommend it until you sort out stats.

The sequence you want to use the mecha bracers in should be the following:

1. Fire blast
2. Spender (either pyro or flamestrike) Fireblast
3. Bracers

That way you can ensure you get the most amount of Fireblast Chargers back from the bracers.

You want to track Glorious Incandescence to make sure you consume that proc before you use the bracers; you may want to slightly delay using the bracers until Glorious Incandescence is active, this way you will get an amount of Fire Blast chargers back.

Cyrce’s Circlet

Cyrce’s Circlet is a new ring released in Patch 11.0.7 and can be acquired by doing content on Siren Isle. It has 3 unique gem slots that you can socket a range of new gems into, these gems grant different effects when socketed in the ring.

The currently recommended gem combination is probably not the most exciting, but the strongest combo for Fire Mage is using the triple stat increase gems:

• Stormbringer’s Runed Citrine
• Fathomdweller’s Runed Citrine
• Windsinger’s Runed Citrine

However, you can swap the Stormbringer’s Runed Citrine to use the Thunderlord’s Crackling Citrine (zap gem) for pure single target.