To Smigel & pyromagik, Thanks! I just really like the fire spec and have picked up quite a lot of knowledge about it from playing and reading up. I see fewer and fewer fire mages these days and I have only met one fire mage through dungeon finder who really knows how to play the spec and put out serious damage, whereas you can see plenty of incredibly high dps'ers from many different other specs and classes. I find it odd because it's not a terribly difficult spec to play has plenty of utility, survivability, isn't hindered by movement and can put out ridiculous aoe. It does have rng problems and bugs, but the rest of it makes up for that in a way
I will say this though: Combustionhelper is helpful, but by no means necessary. As ignite does 40% of the last crits damage as a DoT, you can tell how big your ignite will be from that. Switching to a something like Mik's scrolling combat text so you can more easily see what your last hits/crits were can just as easily allow you to track how big your ignite will be.
As I previously mentioned I mainly use combustionhelper as a DoT tracker.
I'll leave with a final tip: in ZG when you get to that big pack of zombies at the bottom of the hill leading up to zanzil. Charge up a pyroblast on the pull, pray that it crits. Whether it does or not, living bomb, blast wave, combustion, impact! Blink to the cauldron, spam click the frost cauldron as fast as you can while also spamming flame strike.
Btw, would anyone be interested if I made a video of how to play as a fire mage in a 5man?
Good, concise guide, definitely.
An alternative to CH would be MyBigIgnte, which only tracks ignite values and has adjustable threshold setpoints that are useful on Alysrazor. However, I prefer CH since it has the DoT tracking built in.
I think any video of fire magery would be cool to see, especially since there are probably tons of folks who will be switching to fire once 4.3 hits. I'd bet many of them either may not have played fire much or they may be a bit rusty. Either way, go for it.
I know I haven't played fire in ages, so I could brush up on playing the spec.
Mage: Klünk @ Area 52
Thanks for the info you all! I've been leveling a mage recently and really do love playing Fire in PVP. I feel like I should be doing more damage than I have been, I'm gonna have to try out your rotation suggestions and probably respec too. I like frost as well, but Fire is way more fun, especially with Dragon's Breath!
I've been Fire all of Cataclysm and I have recorded all Firelands kills with my guild. I can put up a link to my YouTube channel if you're interested.
On-topic: I'll be trying out CombustionHelper in a raid soon, but I don't think I will stick to it. Knowing if my Ignite is big or small, relatively, is enough for me.
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Mage: Klünk @ Area 52
yes that would be cool
Very helpfull post, thanks a lot. I guess with 4.3 fire mages will be common again seeing its top dps in ptr atm.
A cheeky stalk and I came across these, hope you don't mind me linking, but you said you would;
This is their Baleroc kill;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg8Cw..._order&list=UL