Fire Mage Midnight Changes – Midnight Season 1

With the reintroduction of Phoenix Flames and the addition of Hero Talents, Fire Mages have had an easier and easier time generating Hot Streak. This impacts the tuning of Pyroblast and Flamestrike and the pace of Fire's combat in extreme ways. In Midnight, we are heavily increasing the damage of Fire Mage's premier damaging spells like Pyroblast, Flamestrike, and Meteor while reducing their access to guaranteed crits by removing Phoenix Flames. We're also changing Kindling to be a flat cooldown reduction on Combustion to reduce how punishing imperfect uptime can be. We're increasing the cost in the Fire talent tree to access Ignite spreading functionality to help make the Ignite spread playstyle more distinct from Fire's other builds and damage profiles and also make it easier to tune around. In Midnight, Fire Mages should be casting Fireball more often, and in exchange, will see significantly increased damage coming from their Hot Streak consumers, Meteors, and Combustion windows.

Last updated: December 16, 2025