Tips on fire mage - addons, keybinds, playstyles, matchups, etc

Hi,

I haven’t played since Cata and used to be what I would consider decent at PvP. But, this new expansion seems to have given every class one of everything (interrupt, silence, defensive cds, etc.) and is extremely bursty. I wager gear is also extremely important because of these things. Maybe I’m a bit under geared and it is causing me to feel worse than I really am… Idk. But, I know I definitely could stand learn a thing or two switching from enh shaman main to fire mage main years later as well. What class, covenant, runecarving, spells, and abilities should I be weary of? What addons do you prefer? Are their keybind layouts/macros that are more efficient? What about talent switching inside arenas? I’ve watched a few videos and read a bit, but it’d be nice to have some discussion since I work quite a bit.

Thanks all! :slight_smile:

Night fae and kyrian best covenants. Night fae is more consistent kiting which is super important in this warrior meta. And faster busts with shifting power is great.

Triune ward best legendary for arena

Addons definitely need an arena frame addon l- I prefer sArena, some prefer gladius. Will need omnibar to track enemy cd’s (manually add other mages spell steals on 30 sec cd to track kleptomania) as well as Omni cd to track your teammates cd’s. Those and details are the only ones I use

Keybinds are super specific to the person, but make it comfortable and fast to be able to poly all 3 targets, and spellsteal/ cs all 3 targets. I use arena 1,2,3 binds for poly and a mix of focus binds for everything

Watch the most recent xaryu mage guide and he goes over the burst options and talent choices iirc. Generally taking kindling and pyrokenisis are good to farm combust faster, unless you are playing RMX in which meteor might be better for bigger kidney goes

Go practice against random mobs a lot in between queues landing rings off of dragons breath. When I went mage it surprised me how bad I was at that lol. Weird with how the sheep walks around getting down where to drop the ring

Get a hang of how far your blinks are so you are good at being able to shimmer into spots that you can’t be stopped on poly, and don’t blink db behind someone

Make a cancel alter time macro, there’s a lot of situations you won’t want to alter back

your main objective in most games is to set up a kill with combustion, and if you dont get it, live until the next combustion while having as much pressure as possible. You’ll want to get a good grasp of how to kite each class/class combo effectively without wasting too many resources so your healer doesn’t oom trying to keep you alive.

You’ll need to get diverted energy conduit for the shield healing, infernal cascade conduit to make combustion goes scarier, and controlled destruction conduit for better pyros.

Wow, thank you so much for this advice. I went Kyrian for the radiant spark and potion. But, I may swap to Night Fae if it doesn’t work out. Downloaded those addons and made some arena 1, 2, 3 binds for poly. Need to do so for CS as well though. Reworking my keybind layout will probably help too. I am practicing ring of frost, kiting, and setting up bursts. Going to need a lot of work and practice, but I’m pretty pumped to try and get better/learn. Thanks again for the info! Maybe I can break 1400 this week. Gonna aim for the stars though :smiley:

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i would highly recommend BigDebuffs as well if you aren’t using it already, and turn off everything you don’t need (mine shows nothing on nameplates and only spell immunities / kicks / cc on frames)

for regular talents, meteor is for double damage 2s or for bigger burst / short games in general. kindling otherwise

for honor talents, flamecannon vs tinder is sort of preference. drop the other one for klepto vs fire mages (removing their combust defensively / triune barriers offensively), resto druids, and warlocks (nether ward). vs hpals its preference. make sure to have a macro somewhere to cancel combust & pyroblast, so they can’t immediately klepto it back

lots of ranged interrupts have a facing requirement (not all), so for example you can sheep a shaman for free even if they have shear up by shimmering through them during the cast

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decurse party 1/2 insta remove hex also kinda neat

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