Fire Mage Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Pre-Patch Tier Set Bonuses:

• 2 Set: Damage done increased by 6%
• 4 Set: Damage done increased by 10%

In the Midnight Pre-patch, Season 3 Tier Sets have been automatically converted into a simple damage increase. They don't affect your gameplay, it just helps cover some of the missing damage from the previous tier set bonuses going away. We will get new Tier Set bonuses in Midnight Season 1.

This is the absolute best in slot setup you could have for Fire Mage, combined from both M+ and raid items.

With that being said, we appreciate that not everyone enjoys raiding, so I will make a list for alternative items you can get from Mythic+ to be as geared as possible.

Keep in mind that this is not a replacement for siming your character, as you will likely not have all these items at once, so to determine what is your next upgrade, always sim yourself.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

There are many new Trinkets for Fire Mage in Patch 11.2, I have listed some of the best available and some great alternative trinkets. I specifically included details for the ritual forge. However, for the other trinkets, there isn't much to say, as they are mostly just passive trinkets.

The trinkets from the BiS list are the top simming trinkets, but there are some trinkets that are very close alternatives.

Best Trinkets for Fire Mage

The following Trinkets are considered some of the best for Fire Mage in Patch 11.2, these are the trinkets you want to target when looking for gear upgrades:

• Araz's Ritual Forge - An extremely powerful trinket that gives Intellect at the cost of some health, very powerful if we can line this up with bloodlust or potion, especially with all the damage amps and cleave some bosses have (mostly around 1:30 or 2 minutes). Do keep in mind this is based on limited testing, so it might end up being not the case on live.
• Ara-Kara Sacbrood
• Azhiccaran Parapodia - Similar to the sacbrood trinket, it does damage and has a haste on it, which is very good and gives us intellect in return.

Good Alternative Trinkets for Fire Mage

This section is more of an alternative option for trinkets, they are trinkets that I think will be good in case you can't get your hands on the best in slot trinkets:

• Astral Antenna
• So'leah's Secret Technique
• Azhiccaran Parapodia

For Fire Mage, the embellishment I will recommend is Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension with Writhing Armor Banding or 2x Duskthread Lining (Versatility Embellishment), Ascension is better in the raid.

Embellishments have very little, to almost no effect on our damage, so you can go with whatever you prefer. I'm personally going to go with the 2x Duskthread Lining (Versatility), since it makes me a tiny bit more tanky and it’s pretty good for Mythic+.

Puzzling Cartel Chips

With patch 11.2.5 Blizzard are adding back the Puzzling Cartel Chips from last season. These items make it so you're able to buy items from the raid or keys every 3 weeks. Overall every character gets 9 chips, which means 3 items you can buy in total. If you are able to, it is recommended to buy Mythic Track versions of these items. You have to have killed the bosses on Mythic to have access to the Mythic track raid gear. And you have to have timed the keys on a 12 or higher to have access to the Mythic track Mythic+ gear.

These are the items I recommend buying if you primarily raid:

1. Voidglass Spire
2. Astral Antenna
3. Diamantine Voidcore

These are the items I recommend buying if you primarily play M+:

1. Azhiccaran Parapodia
2. Ara-Kara Sacbrood
3. The neck or ring from Gambit with Haste Vers.

If you don't have a crafted weapon or Mythic track weapon, buy the staff from Gambit and skip the ring or neck.

Sword & Trinket Combo in Patch 11.2

There’s a new Sword and Trinket combo that almost every caster is going to use.

Sword: Voidglass Sovereign's Blade. This sword makes your spells have a chance to conjure voidglass shards, slicing enemies for Cosmic damage or orbiting allies to absorb damage for up to 20 sec.

Trinket: Diamantine Voidcore. This trinket makes your spells have a chance to empower Voidcore, granting you 11,000 Intellect for 15 seconds. This chance is increased by 25% while below 25% mana, multiple applications may overlap. This trinket was still bugged at the end of PTR and gave more intellect than it should, so blizzard might nerf / fix this before it drops on live.

I strongly believe this trinket will be the best trinket during Raid progression because of all the damage amps that Manaforge Omega bosses have.

However, this is something we have to wait and see how it turns out, so for now I didn't include it in the BiS list.

However, even after a predictable nerf, we predict this combo is going to be an extremely powerful one, and we will want to use it most definitely as a locked-in trinket slot at the very least.

Reshii Wraps

Reshii Wraps is the only cloak you will use in Season 3. It is an artifact cloak that you unlock by completing chapter 3 of the main patch storyline. The Reshii Wraps are upgradable via Ethereal Strands and can have secondary stats of your choice added to it.

To add a secondary stat to the Reshii Wraps you use a Fiber in the Fiber Socket of the Cloak. The highest quality version of the Fibers requires a work-order to a Tailor.

When picking a Fiber, I strongly recommend simming your character for the best stat for your current gear and intended content. If you just want a quick recommendation for which Reshii Fiber to use, then use Pure Chronomatic Fiber (Haste).

To find out more about the Reshii Wraps, you can read the Method Reshii Wraps Overview Guide.