Fire Mage Midnight Talents Guide

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As far as the Class Talent Tree in Midnight, we can see a similar tree to what we had in TWW. However, I will address some new / changed nodes we got going into Midnight:

New Cheat Death Talent (Temporal Realignment): Upon dropping below 25% health your past corrects your timeline casting Alter Time and instantly returning 50% of your maximum HP.

Mirror Image CDR (Improved Conjuration): Reduce the CD of Mirror Image by 30 Seconds - which is something nice utility for M+ to drop some threat. Sometimes mechanics can also target the images instead of you when they are out but don’t count on this too much.

Greater Invisibility Movement Speed (Incantation Of Swiftness): Increase your movement speed while Greater Invisibility is active by 40% (2 Note Choice) is a nice gap closer to use when you are out of Shimmer charges.

Mass Polymorph and Ring Of Frost share a choice node.

Some passives that increase your Haste and Mastery in the class tree.

Some talents have been added/changed in the Fire Tree. I’m going to address the ones that I think are important, and the most worth mentioning:

Kindling now makes Combustion a static 1 minute cooldown.

Returning Talent: Cinderstorm: Casting Pyroblast or Flamestrike has a 8% chance to summon a storm of 5 cinders that pursue your target. Upon reaching your target, each cinder deals (200% of Spell Power) Fire damage, applies Ignite at 100% effectiveness, and spreads 50% of your Ignite to up to 1 nearby target. This is a returning talent from legion, however, this talent currently is extremely undertuned and most likely will never be picked unless its heavily buffed.

New Talent: Burnout: When Combustion expires, all of your active Ignites explode, dealing 75% of their remaining damage. This talent has strong AoE potential, definitely keep an eye out for this one.

New Talent: Burn It All: Combustion Grants you 10% increased Spell damage plus an additional 20% critical strike chance as spell damage.

Pyroclasm has returned and now also works on hardcast Flamestrike / Pyroblast, dealing 230% increased damage and has 2 charges. Some hate it, some love it, I think personally it's cool that it now also works on Flamestrike, which gives fire a pretty meaningful AoE Burst or at least some damage outside of Combustion with Pyroclasm hardcast into Flamestrike.

When we reach max level in Midnight we will gain access to 3 new Talents, called Apex Talents.

Essentially, they all increase our damage, Fire Blast refunds during Combustion to compensate for the removal of Phoenix Flames.

• Fired Up: Consuming Hot Streak! has a 20% chance to grant you a stack of Fired Up. Increasing your fire damage by 4% for 12 seconds (this can stack).
• Fired Up: Gaining Fired Up reduces the cooldown of fire blast by 2.5 Second, all fire damage is increased by 3%.
• Fired Up: Combustion Significantly increases your chance of gaining Fired Up, reducing each time you gain Fired Up, Firedup now extends Combustion duration by 1 second.

I predict all apex talents will be set and forgotten in all Fire Mage builds as they are extremely powerful and with the removal of Phoenix Flames, the cooldown reduction and Fire Blast refunds from Firedup talents is essential to keep a flowing rotation, especially during Combustion.

This section will talk about some core part of the Hero tree talents for both Sunfury and Frostfire. Since some spells and talents/passives have changed I will briefly mention the ones that are important for each hero talent.

The recommended Hero Talents are Sunfury. Frostfire numbers just aren’t quite there unfortunately and Sunfury is pulling ahead in most content. So, with that being said, I don’t recommend playing Frostfire at all at this point going into Season 1.

Sun Fury Hero Talents

Sunfury took a pretty big hit with the removal of Hyperthermia and Kindling CDR in Midnight, which resulted in a pretty big 40-45 second downtime of Combustion.

Gameplay wise, Sunfury plays almost identical to how it did previously, Fireblast refunds from the Sunfury tree and Meteorites from Glorious Incandescence.

Our Phoenix is also a little bit stronger and cast AoE spells 30% more effectively. We also still get the 15% Haste effect after the Phoenix expires, similar to the Tier Set we had during TWW, it's now just baked into the Sunfury Tree.

Generally, damage is still a bit on the weaker side, especially outside of Combustion, and this is something that you need to keep in mind especially while playing Mythic+. If the route or the key level isn't tailored around you, and you have to play many pulls without Combustion, it will not feel great.

Sunfury Changes:

• New Talent: Ashes Of Inspiration - When your Arcane Phoenix expires, it grants you Lesser Time Warp for 10 seconds.
• 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 Spheres. No longer causes Fire Blast to hit additional targets.
• Memory Of Al'ar has been updated - No longer extends the duration of Hyperthermia based on the number of exceptional spells cast. Base duration of Arcane Soul and Hyperthermia increased to 5 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 Spheres (was 12%).

Frostfire Hero Talents

Frostfire has been extremely undertuned and barely saw any play during Beta Testing. The gameplay however is pretty much the same, from the Instant Frost Fire Bolt procs to the Meteor / Comet Storm combo; which results in pretty good AoE on demand.

That being said, the numbers are just not quite there in general for Frostfire, so hopefully it gets some tuning buffs when Midnight Season 1 launches.

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.