Fire Mage Gearing Guide

The Tier Set Bonus in Patch 11.2 is now based on your Hero Talent and not only your specialisation.

Frostfire Season 3 Fire Mage Tier Set Bonus:

• Frostfire 2p - Comet storm and Frostfire burst damage increased by 10%, frostfire bolt damage increased by 5%, as well as comet storm, frostfire burst and frostfire bolt now apply ignite at 50% effectiveness.
• Frostfire 4p - Casting a Pyroblast has a 20% chance to also cast a glacial spike for some damage, that glacial spike also benefits from ignite, but wont root the target.

Sunfury Season 3 Fire Mage Tier Set Bonus:

• Sunfury 2p - Spellfire Spheres spell damage bonus is increased by 1%, Mana Cascade now grants an additional 0.5% Haste per stack.
• Sunfury 4p - Exceptional spells cast by your phoenix add an additional 0.3% to the duration of hyperthermia, when the phoenix expires it empowers us, granting a Mini time warp and 10% increase damage for 10 seconds.

The War Within Season 3 Fire Mage Tier Set Bonus Conclusions

Sunfury: the original version of this set was extremely powerful before the nerfs, the mana cascade was 1% from 0.5% and the additional duration towards hyperthermia was 0.5 from 0.3. However, this still remains an extremely powerful tier set for sunfury, Fire Mages are definitely still happy with how it’s ended up.

Having a longer duration on hyperthermia that contributes towards our kindling and combustion CDR, on top of having 10% increase damage towards our hyperthermia window, is something Fire Mage loves.

Frostfire: Frostfire prior to the tier set nerfs was the clear winner, with 100% damage on comet storm towards ignite, frost fire was the king of ignite cleave. However, blizzard thought it was a bit too strong and nerfed this tier set by half, which unfortunately killed Frostfire.

The tier set still remains strong for ST and Ignite cleave, but with buffs to pyroblast which directly buffs sunfury unleashed inferno, I don’t see us playing Frostfire in the upcoming raid. This is subject to change though, if Blizzard implement any further balancing changes.

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 Season 3 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 in Season 3

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+.

New Sword & Trinket Combo in Patch 11.2

There’s a new Sword and Trinket combo that almost every caster is going to use. This was particularly strong on PTR, and so this will most likely be our best in slot.

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.

Best D.I.S.C Belt & Miniature Titan Disc Effects

Season 3 Note: For Patch 11.2, the belt is replaceable by any Hero Track or above belt you’ll find most likely, just sim yourself to make sure, but you are pretty safe to replace them as soon as you find another belt, especially if it has haste on it since the DISC belt has no secondaries.

There’s a new belt coming with patch 11.1.7 that is being obtained via Charged Delves, which is a major power increase and something worth getting.

The belt starts at ilvl 691 and can be upgraded to ilvl 701.

That belt is essentially like Cyrce’s Circlet ring from the last patch with some effects.

Recommended Titan Discs for Fire Mage:

• Raid: Spark Burst
• Mythic+: Spark Burst

For more information about unlocking the DISC belt and the different Miniature Titan Disc effects available, check out Method's D.I.S.C Belt Guide.