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Tier Sets
Midnight Season 1 Tier Set Bonuses:
- (2) Set Bonus: Pyroblast and Flamestrike damage is increased by 8%
- (4) Set Bonus: Casting Pyroblast or Flamestrike reduces the cooldown of Fire Blast by 0.5 seconds
Tier Set Discussion
Historically, Blizzard is known to not design game breaking tier sets, especially, during Season 1 of an expansion. Midnight is no exception to this, it’s not extremely exciting but not entirely passive either.
I think the 4 Set bonus is interesting, at least it makes the gameplay flow by weaving in Fire Blast converting Heating Up to Hot Streak! to keep the crits going.
The tier set definitely leans towards Sunfury more, since it compliments all the Fire Blast CDR inside the Sunfury Tree. That being said, it's all going to come down to tuning to determine which Hero Tree is better, and the true impact of the Tier Set to our damage.
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 | Voidbreaker's Veil | Catalyst/Tier |
| Neck | Amulet Of The Abyssal Hymn | Midnight Falls |
| Shoulders | Voidbreaker's Leyline Nexi | Catalyst/Tier |
| Cloak | Adherent's Silken Shroud | Crafted |
| Chest | Robes Of Endless Oblivion | Midnight Falls |
| Wrist | Martyr's Bindings | Crafted |
| Gloves | Voidbreaker's Gloves | Catalyst/Tier |
| Belt | Whisper-Inscribed Sash | Belo'ren |
| Legs | Voidbreaker's Britches | Catalyst/Tier |
| Boots | Lightbinder Treads | Skyreach |
| Ring | Eye Of Midnight | Midnight Falls |
| Ring | Bond Of Light | Lightblinded Vanguard |
| Trinket | Emberwing Feather | Windrunner Spire |
| Trinket | Gaze Of The Alnseer | Chimaerus |
| Main Hand | Brazier Of The Dissonant Dirge (2H Staff) | Midnight Falls |
Trinkets
The Best Trinkets for Fire Mage in Midnight Season 1:
- Gaze Of The Alnseer
- Emberwing Feather
- Vaelgor's Final Stare
- Locus-Walker's Ribbon
- Shadow Of The Empyrean Requiem
Try to get any trinket you can from the Raid, including from normal or even LFR. From Mythic dungeons, you specifically want the Emberwing Feather, it’s probably the best Pre-Raid trinket to go into the raid with.
During Mythic+ (after March 24th): Use the highest item level trinket you loot as long as it has intellect or a strong on-use to line up with Combustion.
Embellishments
Crafting in Midnight has become less crest efficient than it was in previous expansions. With that being said, I will recommend to not over craft items, probably only 2-3 items and in the following order:
- Aln'hara Cane (2H Staff)
- Cloak With Arcanoweave Lining (budget piece)
- Bracers Arcanoweave Lining (budget piece)
This will be your BIS Setup!
However, for Heroic week, unless you raid in a somewhat competitive guild, I recommend to hold your spark and wait until you see what you get from the vault in case you get another weapon.If you still want to craft early, then I recommend crafting a 259 Aln'hara Cane Staff with the 4 Sparks you got, and apply the Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt Embellishment to it.
Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt is only usable on weapons while Arcanoweave can be used on armor. The reason why we don't craft armor early on is we don't want our craft item to conflict with a piece that can or will be a tier piece.
Once you get your 4-set you are free to mix and match your gear around to your liking, but for now I recommend not doing any armor crafts.
For crafting, I recommend saving your 2 Sparks and craft a 259 item level Staff (259 is without Crest) and upgrade it later with Hero/Mythic Crest. This will be most likely the most amount of power spike you could possibly get early on.