Just want to say thank you! I'm getting back into WoW with a friend and trying to figurenout why my dPS is so far below his and I think this is going to help! (He's rolling 90% parses on bosses while I'm doing between 40%-60% parses :/)
A lot of that is to do completely with encounter knowledge too, For example, using/saving cooldowns and pots for certain parts of the fight, pooling (saving) fireblasts/PF's to make a better combustion. Also things like stutterstepping, not wasting GCD's to move. Not placing Rune of power somewhere you aren't able to stand, etc etc
9:13 I hear the tip to "save" FireBlast for Combustion quite often. But I need the FirstBlast to turn Heating up into Hot Streak and then into SKB. So what am I missing here? I can't "save" it. The hot streaks don't come by themselves (or just unlikely) and in the meantime I do tank damage.
It's about pacing - you're correct, and saving fireblasts sometimes means that you waste a heating up proc to gamble a crit on a fireball. I only do this if i'm really fire blast starved at 1 charge or lower, but it is sometimes correct to just spam fireball and hope you get a hot streak. This will feel natural over time, but having as many fireblasts as you can going into combust is pretty significant as far as our damage goes
It seems ive been using the talent wrong... I started my first mage ever in DF, started leveling on arcane which wasn't really my cup of tea, couldn't really get my head around it as i leveled so I switched to Fire at 40 As I was leveling to 60 the game made it pretty clear that I need those instant Flamestrike and Pyros basically all the time so I started to spend those talents in a way where there is very little room of downtime. What I've been doing is made phoenix flame always crit and get more stack on it, also get the more stack on fireblast and spend some point of the "If the target x% health u crit or if the target under x% hp you crit" to keep the downtime on minimum, and when I hit the rock bottom and couldnt really push out more hot streak build then I pop Combustion to get back into the loop as fast as I can. This seems working but I'm still leveling to it probably wiil be bad on endgame? Am I doing it badly for using this kind of method? Can this be viable in endgame contents? I'd love to have a fellow mage opinion on this. Thanks
B8DAHVkVsxxZrVqBmAzlSR2f7nkAhWiEHIJFQOQLhIiIJAAAAAAAAA4AEIRokkkkQSSSSBAAAA This is used for pretty much all content in the game, just plug and go. Only thing you change is stuff on the left tree for situational stuff. I also have another full guide on my channel for fire mage where I go over talents more, thanks!
Enjoying your channel/content. Been playing fire recently as I've always liked fire, I'm doing fine, but not amazing, I don't have 4 piece yet but it sounds like an awful bonus anyway! I think the main issue I have is that without lust even an aoe combustion seems to do somewhat underwhelming dps, and knowing what to do on a pack where your combust is on cooldown, or burst aoe like court of stars imps. On both of those scenarios I usually throw an ice nova and then either do awful dps building SKB or just arcane explosion !
It definitely feels bad, especially in early content when add groups don't live very long - we need adds to live for like 15 seconds+ to start shooting up on the meters. Once you get your combust rotation down you can start doing big damage on adds, but you do not do big up-front damage - pack has to live for a while.
Scorch spamming mobs under 30% is going to feel the best outside of combustion. Other than that, you are building up to Sun Kings Blessing with fireball/fireblast, trying to manage fireblast charges as best you can for your SKB go. We are a burst class, have to accept that our damage outside combust is going to be mediocre most of the time :)
It feels bad, but it does equate to more combust time which is an overall gain. Fireblast during your hard cast if you can to put you to a hot streak, as just being in combust gives us mastery increasing our ignite damage, even when not building the ignite
Does anyone know what addon/what setting is used to show the onscreen timer for the SKB stacks? I have a hard time keeping track of it with the tiny buff icon in raids
something that i dont see on any guide or tips.. is that SKB dosent proct RoP , while combustion proc a RoP automatically.. do you know anything about that?
Yes, combustion automatically casts rune of power at our feet (in the rune of power talent description). Sun Kings blessig does not automatically put rune of power at our feet, and we have to actually cast rune of power before our sun kings blessing hard cast.
Trinket - that is the tome of unstable power from AV. It is pretty good for us since we don't care about crit, but it mainly gets value in raid from other people standing in it. There are better trinkets for increasing out own output
Hey Pump thanks for the guides you've made so far. Ive got a question for you please. I find myself in the M+ situation quite often where combust is on CD, and for whatever reason im stuck at 4-6 stacks of SKB, and no fireblasts in sight. I then end up doing "tank damage" as you say and it feels reaaal bad lol. Perhaps I'm missing crit? Any thoughts/criticisms on would be appreciated 🙂 My current stat distributions crit 28 / haste 23 / mast 22.
I would say that is more of a haste problem - higher haste means faster fire blast recharge, making the class straight up play smoother. I play at 27% haste, the more the better usually. Focus on getting more haste & then see how it feels - even at my haste I still get awkward timings where I have no FB & am just fireball spamming hoping for crits
Do you start raid encounter with hard cast pyro + combustion? Or do you build up skb in the above 90% hp window and then use combustion at the end of the hard cast skb proc? I do a lot more dmg when i do the later and when i get PI at that point i always top meters for a period. Thank you for your video!
With the 6 days of haste it is going to be atleast A tier I think - I am still doing my own testing, have to log stuff to see its uptime. As long as you're training haste it's good, but until we get more data I'd prefer ragefeather / incarnate icon
Good video, just curious do you play other specs for M+ or specific bosses with different specs? I have 400ilv Hunter and Warlock and I swap between specs depending on the raid bosses and M+. Leveling up a mage right now and I am curious what spec you find better for each or whether you just main fire for all content. Any response is aprpeciated, ty.
I strictly play fire for all content - all mage specs are viable at this point, I would suggest frost mage for m+ though. I think in it's current state frost mage is generally going to be a better experience than fire until you get to high keys
This is a dumb question I know…. But I finally got time breaching talon, now I typically would macro an on use trinket like that in with my burst. With combust being able to be cast while casting, I sometimes get sloppy with my trinket use. Meaning I miss my trinket😅.Any advice on how to Improve, still very new to mage but loving it and help is appreciated!
Combust - #showtooltip Combustion /cast Blood Fury /use 13 /cast Combustion Change blood fury to your race's talent if you have one, but we still macro on-use trinkets to combust. Some trinkets don't get cast during combust, so you end up spamming your combust button after the cast goes off to proc the trinket, but usually they still go off during your cast. I don't think time-breaching talon has a cast time, so you should be fine to just macro it and treat it as a passive :D Time breaching sometimes doesn't line up with your third combust, but it is still a great trinket for fire early on and only gets beat out by really high end trinkets
I have 2 questions - What is the purpose of jumping while in combust, is there a benefit to it? How do you personally build up and maximise dps from your ignite stacks? Really looking forward to seeing your dungeon guides as I love playing fire mage and want to increase my damage output.
Jumping in combust does have a benefit - we jump in combust so that we do not hard cast a pyroblast when we don't want to. While you are in the air, you can not hard cast a spell, so if we are spam jumping you can spam hot-streak pyroblasts without worry of hard casting pyroblasts. The simple answer to building up bigger ignites is to be in combust as much as possible, and throwing out as many pyroblasts as possible in those combust windows. While in combust, we gain a lot of mastery, and our ignites scale with mastery. On top of that, while in combust, our target cap for ignite goes from 4 targets to 8 targets due to Master of Flame in the bottom right of our talent tree. I wouldn't worry about "building up your ignite", it is more so about just throwing out as many pyroblasts in our combust as possible.
For low keys like 10 and below do you recommend using the same combust single target rotation for aoe ? Or does the rotation and talents change for low keys since packs die so fast
I wouldn't change any talents - packs should still live long enough for our ignite to still be alright. Change nothing rotationally & build up to higher keys, even if your damage is unimpressive. Don't want to build weird habits for stomping lower keys if that makes sense
Nice vid thanks. I've just got back into wow after ditching during bfa. I was playing warrior but I just want to throw fireballs so I'm just gonna deal with not being great at m+ or whatever and just have fun I'll just get carried by guildies
@@pumptastic but how much better is it really then the talent that randomly gives you instant pyro blasts for 5 seconds? Cause that talent is more fun and less tedious
B8DAHVkVsxxZrVqBmAzlSR2f7nkAhWiESSxBQ0SiIiIJAAAAAAAAA4AEIRokkkkQSSSSBAAAA Fire doesn't change anything between single and AOE, in single target we just take more defensive talents in the mage tree instead of AOE filler like ice nova
Thank you so much! Really helpful. My struggle is fireblast management and making sure I have enough before each go window.
Fire mage looked so easy, like just spam everything that’s available. But listening to your guide, it looks so difficult to learn lol
Easy to start out on, high ceiling if you're trying to min-max, haha
Thank you for making this video so quickly after I requested it, very much appreciated!
Just want to say thank you! I'm getting back into WoW with a friend and trying to figurenout why my dPS is so far below his and I think this is going to help! (He's rolling 90% parses on bosses while I'm doing between 40%-60% parses :/)
A lot of that is to do completely with encounter knowledge too, For example, using/saving cooldowns and pots for certain parts of the fight, pooling (saving) fireblasts/PF's to make a better combustion. Also things like stutterstepping, not wasting GCD's to move. Not placing Rune of power somewhere you aren't able to stand, etc etc
is your friend also a fire mage? because its really hard to parse with fire mage without PI and without 410+ ilvl
Great guide, keep making more
9:13 I hear the tip to "save" FireBlast for Combustion quite often. But I need the FirstBlast to turn Heating up into Hot Streak and then into SKB. So what am I missing here?
I can't "save" it. The hot streaks don't come by themselves (or just unlikely) and in the meantime I do tank damage.
It's about pacing - you're correct, and saving fireblasts sometimes means that you waste a heating up proc to gamble a crit on a fireball. I only do this if i'm really fire blast starved at 1 charge or lower, but it is sometimes correct to just spam fireball and hope you get a hot streak. This will feel natural over time, but having as many fireblasts as you can going into combust is pretty significant as far as our damage goes
@@pumptastic Thank you very much 🙂
nice video. simple and clean. keep it up
Thank you very much, cant wait for more vids, love it!
What is that Power wa thats always on screen and how do i get it:p great guide tho!
It seems ive been using the talent wrong...
I started my first mage ever in DF, started leveling on arcane which wasn't really my cup of tea, couldn't really get my head around it as i leveled so I switched to Fire at 40
As I was leveling to 60 the game made it pretty clear that I need those instant Flamestrike and Pyros basically all the time so I started to spend those talents in a way where there is very little room of downtime.
What I've been doing is made phoenix flame always crit and get more stack on it, also get the more stack on fireblast and spend some point of the "If the target x% health u crit or if the target under x% hp you crit" to keep the downtime on minimum, and when I hit the rock bottom and couldnt really push out more hot streak build then I pop Combustion to get back into the loop as fast as I can. This seems working but I'm still leveling to it probably wiil be bad on endgame?
Am I doing it badly for using this kind of method? Can this be viable in endgame contents? I'd love to have a fellow mage opinion on this.
Thanks
Great vid. I am sure it will help me. Question what would you suggest talents should be?
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This is used for pretty much all content in the game, just plug and go. Only thing you change is stuff on the left tree for situational stuff. I also have another full guide on my channel for fire mage where I go over talents more, thanks!
@@pumptastic Thanks. I will give it a tryout
Did you ever explain that last bit about going into dgs with the stacks yet?
Hi, i know it's unrelated but what transmog set is that?
Fireplume Regalia :)
Enjoying your channel/content. Been playing fire recently as I've always liked fire, I'm doing fine, but not amazing, I don't have 4 piece yet but it sounds like an awful bonus anyway! I think the main issue I have is that without lust even an aoe combustion seems to do somewhat underwhelming dps, and knowing what to do on a pack where your combust is on cooldown, or burst aoe like court of stars imps. On both of those scenarios I usually throw an ice nova and then either do awful dps building SKB or just arcane explosion !
It definitely feels bad, especially in early content when add groups don't live very long - we need adds to live for like 15 seconds+ to start shooting up on the meters. Once you get your combust rotation down you can start doing big damage on adds, but you do not do big up-front damage - pack has to live for a while.
Hello and thank you for the video. The hardest thing is what to do outside Combustion, any suggestions, please? Thank you.
Scorch spamming mobs under 30% is going to feel the best outside of combustion. Other than that, you are building up to Sun Kings Blessing with fireball/fireblast, trying to manage fireblast charges as best you can for your SKB go. We are a burst class, have to accept that our damage outside combust is going to be mediocre most of the time :)
@@pumptastic Thanks! Seems like Fire mage needs far more gear than the other specs.
Thanks alot great first vids man. I love fire mage
Do u hard cast skb buring during mid combust window? (e.g 3 secs left on combust) it seems like a waste of the combust
It feels bad, but it does equate to more combust time which is an overall gain. Fireblast during your hard cast if you can to put you to a hot streak, as just being in combust gives us mastery increasing our ignite damage, even when not building the ignite
İ just had a question... İ have seen gingi in mdi casting while moving pyroblasts .... How ?
Ice Floes, it's a talent on the class tree that replaces shimmer. Ice Floes is better in dungeons, but harder to execute
Does anyone know what addon/what setting is used to show the onscreen timer for the SKB stacks? I have a hard time keeping track of it with the tiny buff icon in raids
wago.io/CD42zI3jL
@@pumptastic Thanks a bunch!
What xmog set is that?
Do you try to maximize uptime on feel the burn?
Yes - Feel the burn uptime in combust is important. Outside of combust, not as big of a deal
something that i dont see on any guide or tips.. is that SKB dosent proct RoP , while combustion proc a RoP automatically.. do you know anything about that?
Yes, combustion automatically casts rune of power at our feet (in the rune of power talent description). Sun Kings blessig does not automatically put rune of power at our feet, and we have to actually cast rune of power before our sun kings blessing hard cast.
what is your rune of power macro? and what Weak aura for your buff uptimes? ty for vid,
I have no macro for rune of power - The buff uptimes shown on my character frame is from BigDebuffs - www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/bigdebuffs
Is that a weak aura that shows a swirly ring around your rune of power when you combusted?
Or is that a trinket.
Trinket - that is the tome of unstable power from AV. It is pretty good for us since we don't care about crit, but it mainly gets value in raid from other people standing in it. There are better trinkets for increasing out own output
Hey Pump thanks for the guides you've made so far. Ive got a question for you please.
I find myself in the M+ situation quite often where combust is on CD, and for whatever reason im stuck at 4-6 stacks of SKB, and no fireblasts in sight. I then end up doing "tank damage" as you say and it feels reaaal bad lol. Perhaps I'm missing crit? Any thoughts/criticisms on would be appreciated 🙂
My current stat distributions crit 28 / haste 23 / mast 22.
I would say that is more of a haste problem - higher haste means faster fire blast recharge, making the class straight up play smoother. I play at 27% haste, the more the better usually. Focus on getting more haste & then see how it feels - even at my haste I still get awkward timings where I have no FB & am just fireball spamming hoping for crits
Do you start raid encounter with hard cast pyro + combustion? Or do you build up skb in the above 90% hp window and then use combustion at the end of the hard cast skb proc? I do a lot more dmg when i do the later and when i get PI at that point i always top meters for a period. Thank you for your video!
Always build the SKB with firestarter first.
Nice Video, informative and clearly explained.
Is that a weakaura showing your expiring procc?
wago.io/CD42zI3jL/1
Yes, it is an SKB tracker weakaura. Thanks!
@@pumptastic Love this one, thank you! :)
Thoughts on ruby Welp shell trinket with firemage?
With the 6 days of haste it is going to be atleast A tier I think - I am still doing my own testing, have to log stuff to see its uptime. As long as you're training haste it's good, but until we get more data I'd prefer ragefeather / incarnate icon
Good video, just curious do you play other specs for M+ or specific bosses with different specs? I have 400ilv Hunter and Warlock and I swap between specs depending on the raid bosses and M+. Leveling up a mage right now and I am curious what spec you find better for each or whether you just main fire for all content. Any response is aprpeciated, ty.
I strictly play fire for all content - all mage specs are viable at this point, I would suggest frost mage for m+ though. I think in it's current state frost mage is generally going to be a better experience than fire until you get to high keys
This is a dumb question I know…. But I finally got time breaching talon, now I typically would macro an on use trinket like that in with my burst. With combust being able to be cast while casting, I sometimes get sloppy with my trinket use. Meaning I miss my trinket😅.Any advice on how to Improve, still very new to mage but loving it and help is appreciated!
Combust -
#showtooltip Combustion
/cast Blood Fury
/use 13
/cast Combustion
Change blood fury to your race's talent if you have one, but we still macro on-use trinkets to combust. Some trinkets don't get cast during combust, so you end up spamming your combust button after the cast goes off to proc the trinket, but usually they still go off during your cast. I don't think time-breaching talon has a cast time, so you should be fine to just macro it and treat it as a passive :D Time breaching sometimes doesn't line up with your third combust, but it is still a great trinket for fire early on and only gets beat out by really high end trinkets
Why your rune of power have that area effect? WA or glyph?
It's a trinket giving that area of effect - the azure vault one, Tome of Unstable Power
learned a few new things good vid
I have 2 questions -
What is the purpose of jumping while in combust, is there a benefit to it?
How do you personally build up and maximise dps from your ignite stacks?
Really looking forward to seeing your dungeon guides as I love playing fire mage and want to increase my damage output.
Jumping in combust does have a benefit - we jump in combust so that we do not hard cast a pyroblast when we don't want to. While you are in the air, you can not hard cast a spell, so if we are spam jumping you can spam hot-streak pyroblasts without worry of hard casting pyroblasts.
The simple answer to building up bigger ignites is to be in combust as much as possible, and throwing out as many pyroblasts as possible in those combust windows. While in combust, we gain a lot of mastery, and our ignites scale with mastery. On top of that, while in combust, our target cap for ignite goes from 4 targets to 8 targets due to Master of Flame in the bottom right of our talent tree. I wouldn't worry about "building up your ignite", it is more so about just throwing out as many pyroblasts in our combust as possible.
For low keys like 10 and below do you recommend using the same combust single target rotation for aoe ? Or does the rotation and talents change for low keys since packs die so fast
I wouldn't change any talents - packs should still live long enough for our ignite to still be alright. Change nothing rotationally & build up to higher keys, even if your damage is unimpressive. Don't want to build weird habits for stomping lower keys if that makes sense
thank you so much!
Nice vid thanks. I've just got back into wow after ditching during bfa. I was playing warrior but I just want to throw fireballs so I'm just gonna deal with not being great at m+ or whatever and just have fun I'll just get carried by guildies
Very nice !!!! Thank u
Thanks so much ❤
How do you play AOE ?
Can you share that SKB weak aura?
1. SKB Tracker - wago.io/CD42zI3jL/1
My other weakauras are in my fire mage guide as well
thats a bad ass transmog
Pls add some myth+ n myth raid videos broski GL
What’s SKB??
Sun King's Blessing in the bottom left of the fire mage tree - after building up 8 hot streaks, we hard cast a pyro and get 6 seconds of combustion
@@pumptastic but how much better is it really then the talent that randomly gives you instant pyro blasts for 5 seconds?
Cause that talent is more fun and less tedious
talents?
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Fire doesn't change anything between single and AOE, in single target we just take more defensive talents in the mage tree instead of AOE filler like ice nova
can i get your skb wa?
1. SKB Tracker - wago.io/CD42zI3jL/1
yuh
Phat jeweled onyx panther sale mid video
i hate skb and pyroclasm:(