Hello =), My guild really needs a mage, and I told them I’d do it, but I’m worried that the fire rotation may be ab it much for me, I looked it up and it seems very daunting, but maybe it’s not really?
Some people think it’s hard, but I don’t think it’s that much harder than Frost. Outside of combustion it’s pretty braindead, you just Fire Ball and convert heating up into hot streak as you can using fireblast. Watch your remaining CD on Combustion and start holding stacks of fireblast around 20s so you’re getting your 3rd as you want to press combustion.
Some people have trouble learning Combustion, but it’s a really static sequence, so you can brute force muscle memory for it and execute it pretty reliably. You want to do it in the same order every time since you need to use Fireblasts in a specific way to keep Infernal Cascade up. The sequences for that are in Preheat’s wowhead guide, he probably mentions how to use Shifting Power in there too.
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Switching to fire was an adjustment but like above said it’s not any more difficult than the other specs.
What i really like about fire now that I’m getting the feel for it is the shifting power affinity for fire spec is pretty amazing.
You can really make it shine if you can get down weaving you spells in timing with shifting power. Now I’ve started to take into consideration using rune and several phoenix and fire blasts and have combust on CD with at least 10+ seconds left then shifting power this gives the CD reduction the most benefit. You can also fireblast during shifting power so if you get a heating up proc that would be wasted cause it’s on CD you can shifting power, fire blast, and then rune, fireball, pyro out of the shifting power.
There’s some really cool spell interactions. I wish alter time worked like old alter time is the only thing that would be better.
Its very simple, depending on your guild you won’t need to minmax your combustion and you can just fireball-combust-fireblast-pyro-fireblast-pyro-phoenix flames- pyro- fireblast- pyro- phoenix flames. And then you spam fireball.
The only complicated part of fire would be doing the fireball-combust- around 60% into fireball and then use 2 fireblasts and immediately hit pyro. That way when your fireball hits and your pyro hits you get another pyro- fireblast- pyro- phoenix flames- pyro- fireblast- pyro.
Here is a good fire mage guide from some 10/10M guy.
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I guess my biggest confusion is with the Phoenix Flames and when to use them.
Also thank you all so much!
On a raid boss you dont use them outside of combustion. By the time your 3 charges of phoenix flame will come back, combustion will be available. If combust has 25sec+ cd remaining and you are at 3 stacks of PF, use 1 stack just so you dont sit on it for too long.
Thank you!
Are there any beginner guides for Fire that you recommend? It sounds like an interesting spec!
So, I’ve committed myself to play Fire Mage and you actually realize how much QoL it actually brings, since you can make your whole rotation on the move, your DPS CD feels really nice and so on.
At first it was hard, not gonna lie, it was confusing but with training you end up developing muscle memory to do your rotation on auto-pilot and at that point, it plays like a breeze, it becomes really enjoyable. With some training you will do pretty well, that’s for sure.
Not difficult, just unforgiving. If you don’t get the Combustion rotation correct you’ll have trash DPS.
Is Fire a good candidate for Gnome Sequencer Enhanced? Or is it too reactive based on specific procs?
Hmmm, I never used that one, but Phoenix Flames does have a travel time, which could impact on the rotation through it, making you miss a crit of hard cast Pyroblast by mistake, etc. But I might be wrong, as again, I never used Gnome Sequencer Enhanced.
Realistically all you have to worry about is getting the burst rotation correctly. Most of fire mage’s damage is it’s damage in combustion. if you get that right, you’re set
Imo it’s easy.