Welcome to Skill Capped’s Fire Mage PvP Guide for The War Within 11.2.0
All sections for Fire Mage PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal hero talents, class talents, spec talents, race, stats, gear, enchants, gems, and macros. This will help you have a good understanding of Fire Mages in PvP for The War Within, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section provides a brief overview of Fire Mages in The War Within.
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What’s New for Fire Mages in The War Within?
Fire Mage in 11.2 hasn’t experienced much change structurally and has received more direct damage buffs to compensate for its lack of damage throughput.
However it’s important to uncover all the generic changes introduced in The War Within in order to help you understand the current identity of the spec. For our class tree, we receive some enhancements to our survivability thanks to Barrier Diffusion, which provides us with more absorb uptime throughout the course of a game. Thankfully, more absorb uptime makes our Overpowered Barrier talent a lot stronger. This talent gives us more opportunities for your opponent to unintentionally burst themselves, giving us more win conditions.
Additionally, Ring of Frost is now on a choice node with Ice Nova, and since we aren’t a Shatter based spec like Frost Mage, we almost always grab Ring of Frost to Crowd Control our opponents using a different spell school.
Finally, we have the holy grail of The War Within, and where most of the new talents come from; Hero talents. As a Fire Mage, you have two to choose from. These are Sunfury and Frostfire.
Fire Mage Playstyle
Our rotation is quite different from its Dragonflight counterpart, as it deals damage from our instant Pyroblast casts instead of Flamestrike. The identity of Fire Mage still remains in tact, as we are constantly dealing damage to reduce the cooldown of Combustion for some heavy Ignite cleave. This is due to talents like Kindling and Unleashed Inferno that will naturally come into play from your rotation.
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