Tier Sets
Midnight Season 2 Fire Mage Tier Set Bonuses:
- (2) Set Bonus: Pyroclasm causes Flamestrike and Pyroblast to Always critically strike
- (4) Set Bonus: Pyroclasm reduces the cast time of Flamestrike and Pyroblast by 20% and their damage bonus increase to 20%
Tier Set Discussion:
(2) Set: The 2 Piece bonus is lacklustre in my opinion, Pyroclasm is fun talent but would always crit in combust regardless because all our spells crit during combustion anyway, I consider it more of an outside of Combustion slight damage increase.
(4) Set: The damage increase to Pyroclasm and Flamestrike by 20% is nice and reduces cast time to get those pyroclasm procs faster, not the most interesting tier set unfortunately.
fire mage Best in Slot Gear
You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Fire Mage, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.
Overall Best Gear for Fire Mage
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Venomkeeper's Horrific Cowl | Ula’tek |
| Neck | Pendant Of Malefic Fury | Murder Row |
| Shoulders | Ornaments Of The Eternal Coil | The Twin Fangs |
| Cloak | Silken Voodoo Drape | The Coiled Altar |
| Chest | Primordial Robe Of Rites | Altar of Fangs |
| Wrist | Martyr's Bindings | Crafted |
| Gloves | Grasps Of The Eternal Shadow | The Coiled Altar |
| Belt | Caustic Chain-Wrapped Sash | Sszorak |
| Legs | Initiate's Sacrificial Tights | Nek’zali the soulcoiler |
| Boots | Cackling Soultreads | The Coiled Altar |
| Ring | Alluring Bubbleband | Nymrissa Wavecaller (solo raid) |
| Ring | Ritual Binder's Ring | King’s Rest |
| Trinket | Vile Vial Of Volatile Venom | Altar of Fangs |
| Trinket | Gebbo's Bottomless Bag | The Lost Explorers |
| Main Hand | Jan'thrazet, The Soul Fang | Ula’tek |
| Off Hand | Aln'hara Lantern | Crafted |
Catalyst Items in Patch 12.1
Since the catalyst system has changed in patch 12.1 there are some tweaks you should be doing as a fire mage if you are interested in min-maxing the best long term gear.
Since catalyst items in patch 12.1 keep their original stats there’s several powerful items or otherwise known as “Cantrip“ items with some special effects, we will gain access to these items and we will be able to catalyst them and keep their original stats.
Below are the items in no particular order, which you should look to catalyse. Don’t think about this too much short term, this is mostly a long term thing, you should be focusing on getting your (4) Set bonus as soon as you can.
- Helm - Venomkeeper's Horrific Cowl - Ula’tek
- Shoulders - Ornaments Of The Eternal Coil - The Twin Fangs
- Chest - Primordial Robe Of Rites - Altar of Fangs (Seasonal Dungeon)
- Gloves - Grasps Of The Eternal Shadow - The Coiled Altar
- Legs - Initiate's Sacrificial Tights - Nek’zali the Soulcoiler
Trinkets
The Best Trinkets for Fire Mage in Midnight Season 2:
- Gebbo's Bottomless Bag - Passive trinket, similar to Gaze from previous season. Best passive trinket overall.
- Vile Vial Of Volatile Venom - Best on-use trinket on 2 min to sync up on every 2nd Combustion. Pretty much mandatory for M+.
- Wavecaller's Seastone - passive trinket, that gives mainstat then cycles back down.
- Lightspire Core - Passive trinket that gives decent mastery proc, really solid for any cleave situation.
Any other M+ Trinket with high item Level will also be decent, but these are the best options as things stand.
Embellishments
Crafting items becomes complicated at the beginning of Season 2 since we have access to 4 Spark Of Tides.
The absolute best crafts are still to be determined, as some of the embellishments were not yet testable; that being said, I can recommend the best craft for an early power-boost:
This recommendation is subject to change with Embellishment and Race to World First tuning.
- Aln'hara Cane with Hunter's Ritual Stone as the embellishment, and Thalassian Missive Of The Feverflare, or Thalassian Missive Of The Aurora.
For a full BIS setup, it's very likely that we will just go back to playing the Aln'hara Lantern with the Ula'tek dagger, Jan'thrazet, The Soul Fang.
In the events where you cannot get your hands on the Ula'tek Dagger, you will just eventually replace your weapon, and instead play 2x Arcanoweave Lining on low-budget pieces such as Cloak, Wrist or Belt.
Nebulous Voidcores (Bonus Rolls)
The Midnight Season 2 Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcore) will be available from the start of the season as an alternative reward from your Great Vault. More sources for the bonus rolls will become available later into the Season.
Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls let you target specific loot from a Raid Boss or Mythic+ Dungeon; once an item is received via Bonus Loot, that item is removed from the Bonus Loot Pool.
For bonus rolls, mage is in bit of grey area that its a bit unclear what and where we want to bonus rolls, but what i can tell you for certain is if you have the ability to bonus roll Ula’tek, this is where all your bonus rolls should be going because of the cantrip dagger and other powerful items.
If you are not planning to raid, you can bonus roll on any item that is in the dungeon journal and gives you haste/versatility or mastery.
The list below assumes that you can kill Ula'tek on Heroic.
Below are the High Priority bonus roll target items and where they drop from:
| Source / Drop | Difficulty | Target Item |
| Ula’tek | Heroic | Jan'thrazet, The Soul Fang |
| Ula’tek | Heroic | Venomkeeper's Horrific Cowl |
| The Lost Explorers | Heroic | Gebbo's Bottomless Bag |
| Altar of Fangs | Mythic+10 | Vile Vial Of Volatile Venom |
| Nymrissa Wavecaller | Heroic | Wavecaller's Seastone |
Omnium Folio
The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing a weekly quest, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.
Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Fire Mage:
- Row 1: Rune Of Unleashed Fire
- Row 2: Rune Of Self-Mending - This can be based on personal preference.
- Row 3: Rune Of Lingering
- Row 4: Rune Of Burning Haste
- Row 5: Rune Of Overload
For more information on this system, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.