Fire Mage

Ranged DPSRace: GnomeBuild 1.60.1.70753
Fire is the crit caster. Ignite makes every crit burn for more, Critical Mass and Fire Power stack crit and damage, Heating Up feeds Pyroblast, and Combustion is the capstone. Arcane points add Improved Channeling, Arcane Concentration and Arcane Impact.
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Rotation

Opener: Scorch to 5 stacks of Fire Vulnerability, Fireball, Fire Blast on cooldown.

Priority: Keep 5 Scorch stacks up, Fireball as the filler, Fire Blast when moving, Flamestrike or Blast Wave on packs. Ignite rolls with crits, so crit gear first.

Cooldowns: Combustion on the pull or when Ignite is rolling; Blast Wave to peel; Cold Snap is Frost's.

Forever notes: Molten Core and Onyxia punish Fire; Forever's first raids (Barrow Deeps, Hyjal Summit) have no such blanket immunity, so Fire is the Phase 1 raid spec.

Stats

Spell Hit to 16%, Fire spell power, Spell Crit (Ignite is 40% of every crit), Intellect, then mp5.

Crit is king for Fire; past the hit cap it is the stat to chase.

Numbers for every spec and a gear comparer: stat weights.

Where it ranks

See the tier lists for PvE and PvP placement, and Classic vs Forever changes for what Blizzard altered in this class.

Wowhead and Icy Veins keep spec guides of their own: Icy Veins Fire Mage, Wowhead class guides. Our rotation notes are editorial, written for the Nov 2 tuning.

Editorial, 2026-11-04; sources linked in the text. Wowhead and Icy Veins guides are referenced, not copied. Data from talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0), read from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70753. Updated 2026-11-04. World of Warcraft is a trademark of Blizzard Entertainment; this is a fan site.