How hard would it be to gear up a fire mage right now?
Bracers from Mech, azerite traits, and etc. Let’s say to 460? I’m having trouble picking a main to gear up and so far the farthest I’ve been is 448 with a druid, and from what i’ve read, fire mage is the top spec for dps.
460 isn’t hard but blaster master x3 and bracers are completely RNG.
The pvp trinket works fine for combustion on use.
Then again, you can still play fire missing bracers or a single blaster master, it’s not like your pushing mythic progression raiding.
Fire with the right gear does very very good dps, but the rotation takes a little to get used too, you can’t botch combustion but I love the combustion phase. I’ll be sad when bracers go, just makes it so much more fluid.
I’m 474 and still can’t go fire based on corruptions
The traits aren’t too bad. But you need to use the vendor, dailies, dungeons, and raid, to get the traits quicker. I play about an hour a day and I’ve went up and gotten…most of what I need, over the past few weeks.
Corruptions are the tricky part. Stars, masterful, gushing. Are what’s considered best. Stacking those is a pain
Stars is meh and only really good on 3 fights.
Masterful is better
Looking at some of the highest dps mages it looks like they stack all masterful with some also using one piece of honed mind.
What’s the fastest way to get the pvp trinket?
The 445 PvP trinket will become available on your 4th conquest bar fill and the 460 PvP trinket will become available on your 13th conquest bar fill. If you have higher arena rating then you can bump the ilvl up hgiher. Winning arenas is probably the fastest way to grind out conq, but if you aren’t winning often then other ways might be faster. Other ways to get conq:
- Random BGs (65 for winning 1st epic of the day, 40 for normal, diminishing down to 15/8 per win after that)
- CTA weekly quests (100/75/50)
- Daily supply crates (50 in normal zones, 75 in Nazjatar)
- Faction assaults + secret supplies (60 for quests + 50 for secret supplies)
- Battle for Nazjatar (50 per win plus 100 for the 20-kill weekly, and I believe you get 25 for a loss)
- PvP Island expeditions (I think 50 per win? and I believe you get some from losing)