Fire Mage Midnight 12.0 Guide

Welcome to Method’s Fire Mage class guide.

My name is Tamir, also known as tam1h. I've been pushing high mythic+ keys since Legion as a mage and raiding since Warlords of Draenor. I have been raiding the top 30 scene throughout most of Shadowlands and Dragonflight.

Midnight Pre-Patch Fire Mage Changes

Fire Mage honestly feels almost the same, you won’t feel much difference.

You should see a little bit less uptime on combustion generally speaking, since Combustion is a locked 1 minute CD (with kindling talented). But the damage inside combustion should feel significantly better.

With the removal of phoenix flames, at the start of the Pre-Patch it will feel a bit odd, but with all the CDR and refunds on fireblast you should feel almost no downtime when you need to scorch / fireball inside combustion.

If you’ve played fire before, then you should get the hang of it in no time!

Important Mage Class Changes:

• Several Mage defensives have been deleted or changed - Mirror Images, Greater Invisibility had the damage reduction removed (still doing the utility part, it just doesn't have the DR baked in) and Mass Barrier has been removed entirely.
• New Talent: Spatial Manipulation - Blink/shimmer gains an additional charge.
• New Talent: Temporal Realignment - Upon dropping below 25% health, your past self corrects your timeline, casting Alter Time and instantly returning 50% of your maximum health.
• New Talent: Improved Blazing Barrier - Blazing Barrier's damage is increased by 200% and it now cauterizes your wounds, healing you for 15% of the damage it absorbs. Fire Mage only.
• Mirror Image duration reduced to 15 seconds (was 40 seconds).
• All Barrier spells have had their cooldowns increased to 30 seconds (was 25 seconds).
• Counterspell lockout has been increased to 7 seconds (from 5).
• Kindling has been updated to reduce the cooldown of combustion by 60 Seconds (combustion is a set 1 Minute CD now, no more shifting power).
• Removed from Mage Tree: Accumulative Shielding, Blast Wave, Displacement, Diverted Energy, Frigid Winds, Ice Floes (moved to the Frost talent tree), Incanter's Flow, Mass Barrier, Reabsorption, Reduplication, Rigid Ice, Shifting Power, Slow, Supernova, Tempest Barrier, Temporal Velocity and Volatile Destruction.
• Removed from Fire Tree: Alexstrasza's Fury, Ashen Feather, Call of the Sun King, Convection, Cratermaker, Explosive Ingenuity, Firefall, Flame Patch, Hyperthermia, Improved Scorch, Lit Fuse, Majesty of the Phoenix, Phoenix Flames, Phoenix Reborn, Pyrotechnics (effect moved to the Class tree via Overflowing Energy), Quickflame, Sparking Cinders, Sun King's Blessing, Surging Blaze and Unleashed Inferno.

Sunfury Changes:

• New Talent: Ashes of Inspiration - When your Arcane Phoenix expires, it grants you Lesser Time Warp for 10 seconds (basically our current tier set).
• New Talent: Pyrocosm - Damage from Fireball has a 20% chance to summon a Meteorite. When a Meteorite lands, the cooldown of Fire Blast is reduced by 0.5 seconds.
• Codex of the Sunstriders has been redesigned - When your Arcane Phoenix is summoned, it consumes all your Spellfire Spheres. Each Sphere consumed increases your spell damage during Arcane Surge/Combustion by 2% and causes your Arcane Phoenix to cast an exceptional Arcane or Fire spell over its duration.
• Merely a Setback has been redesigned - The bonuses provided by your Barrier spells persist an additional 8 seconds after your Barrier is removed. Additionally, Cauterize no longer deals damage to you.
• Glorious Incandescence has been updated - Now granted upon generating a Spellfire Sphere. No longer causes Fire Blast to hit additional targets.
• Memory of Al'ar has been updated - No longer extends the duration of Arcane Soul or Hyperthermia based on the number of exceptional spells cast. Base duration of Arcane Soul and Hyperthermia increased to 6 seconds (was 2 seconds).
• Sunfury Execution has been updated - Now increases Pyroclasm's damage bonus by 20% and Meteor grants Pyroclasm (if talented).
• Burden of Power has been updated - Now increases Pyroblast and Flamestrike damage by 5%.
• Spellfire Spheres has been updated - Consuming Hot Streak now has a 20% chance to generate a Spellfire Sphere (was 12%).

Frostfire Changes:

• New Talent: Duality Casting Pyroblast has a 25% chance to fire a Glacial Spike, dealing heavy Frost damage.
• New Talent: Molten Chill Your Frostfire spells apply Ignite at 10% increased effectiveness.
• New Talent: Elemental Conduit - Comet Storm, Glacial Spike, Pyroblast, and Meteor now apply Ignite. Your Haste is increased by 8%.
• New Talent: Heat Sink Fire Blast now deals Frostfire damage and its damage is increased by 30%.
• New Talent: Dualcasting Adept
• Your Frost spells deal 20% increased critical strike damage. Pyroblast and Flamestrike damage increased by 10%.
• New Talent: Blast Radius - Comet Storm damage increased by 20%. Meteor damage increased by 20%.
• Meteor damage increased by 25%. Meteor now grants Frostfire Empowerment.
• Fire: Frostfire Bolt's critical strike chance is increased by 15%. The damage of your Frost and Fire spells are increased by 4%.
• Removed from Frostfire: Excess Fire, Excess Frost and Frostfire Mastery.