Hi everyone,
I wanted to start this topic off with a thank you to anyone who invests time and effort into answering my question. Now to be specific, I am playing a Fire Mage on and off in Legion alongside my main and I am keeping it as up to date as my schedule allows. I will include all character details at the bottom for anyone who wants to look at the character directly, as well as a general overview of iLvL and stats. The big problem I am facing is my "par for the course" or "basic" AoE DPS is absolutely abysmal, I can barely hold 200-210k during most AoE trash packs in Mythic+ dungeons, which is making me quite a liability for the group when I do bring the Mage and I know that Fire Mages are infact capable of pulling proper and considerable DPS on trash packs.
My current priority for trash packs will depend on the size, but on small scale AoE fests where I struggle most I do the following:
-Keep up Living Bomb on cooldown
-Dragonsbreath if the add pack allows for it
-Cast Pyro/Flamestrike (FS with 4+ adds) with Hot Streak
-Fireblast/Phoenix Flames when I have Heating Up (Phoenix Flames I try to use as much as I can while saving 2 for upcoming bosses due to the natural "splash")
-Spam Fireball to fish for Heating Up procs
I am running these talents:
Pyromaniac (I understand Conflageration is better for AoE DPS and can change this if it would help significantly but I prefer Pyromaniac for bosses)
Shimmer
Rune of Power
Flame On
Ice Floes
Living Bomb
Kindling (I am not sure if Kindling is worth it, I do enjoy the play style it brings but it might be sub optimal)
My current iLvL is 843 and my stats are at the following values:
Crit 51.10% (8786)
Haste 4.98% (1619)
Mastery 17.57% (5401)
I have 2 terrible Flat Stat trinkets from world quests, one giving Intellect and flat Mastery, the other Intellect and flat Versatility (terrible I know).
Unfortunately I have no logs to share as I have not directly brought the Mage to Emerald Nightmare yet, however as this isn't directly about boss DPS I am not sure if it would be helpful in the first place.
Here is a "link" to my armory profile (Sorry I don't post enough to provide an actual link): eu . battle . net/wow/en/character/kazzak/Astralilly/simple
Edit=Adjusting crit values from listed armory value to in-game displayed value.