Fire Mage Rotation Help

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Following some information gleamed through:
Fire Mage M+ Usage
Fire Mage Help

As well as Preheet videos and other youtube sources, the one thing I am not wrapping my head around is the out of combustion rotation for AoE found in M+.

Seemingly conflicting, I notice some say to just single target rotation the priority and let the ignite spread do your AoE for you.

What I have been doing (and if this needs correcting, by all means let me know):

  • RoP
  • Meteor + Weapon on-use (they line up perfectly for big int boost)
  • Living Bomb if 5+ targets
  • 2 FB
  • Flamestrike (I do NOT rune flame patch, too much tank movement)
  • Dragon’s Breath (because rune would be ending by this point)
  • Living Bomb again
  • 2 FB again
  • Flamestrike
  • Fireballs + FB until instacast flame strikes proc and repeat LB/RoP+Meteor

From all of the deep-diving, it seems that as motivated as that “AoE burst” would be, it is not even remotely what should be done. Instead I see tells of just doing the single-target rotation, and letting the ignite carry the AoE.

I do excellent boss damage because of combustion (65-90k w/o Mech bracers yet, which will definitely soar me), I just feel weird using combustion for trash AoE (which I think comes down to experience to know when I can and have it back in time for bosses).

Rambling rant aside, what do you guys do for keeping up in the AoE department or is Fire Mage not really brought for the AoE potential :frowning:

Thanks!

(EDIT: The +15’s were definitely carries trying for those bracers both in the run and from the chest lol)

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Your mastery is low and Crit is your highest secondary stat, also you ilvl in general is low so I wouldn’t worry too much. Focus on getting pieces with all Mastery/Haste. Get the Mech wrists, and focus on getting 3 Azerite pieces with Blaster Master, after that run your visions and eventually get masterful corruption, and you’ll be pushing big numbers. I’n your situation it’s hard to push big AoE with your mastery levels. I’d spec out of LB and into Flame Patch for the time being.

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Fire Mage does average to below average AoE DPS outside of combustion. But inside combustion theirs very few specs that can compete with us. The goal is to pick an elite mob with the highest HP that will live through your combustion. Put a fat ignite stack on it, through a ST rotation if you have enough mastery and let that ignite spread throughout the pack. I’m not even itemized yet and can get over 200k.

I also run the minute mage build so I’ll have combustion up for all boss’s and most large packs.

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Minute mage build? Researching!

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Do a search on YouTube for Preheat’s Worldvein Kindling build.

IMO it’s the better unless your running with a group that will pull around your combustion using Lucid/Meteor.

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