Hello and welcome mages and other players seeking to learn about Fire Mage PvP.This post will teach you the basics and some tricks in PvP as a Fire Mage.
I myself am a Fire Mage, to see some of my gameplay visit youtube.com/TheXenos21.
Lets get started!
Buffs:
[LIST][*]Molten Armor: 5% Crit Chance & -6% Physical Damage Taken - More Hot Streak procs and less phys damage taken[*]Arcane Brilliance: +10% Spell Power & +5% Crit - More Damage
Spec:
T1 - Lvl 15: Scorch
T2 - Lvl 30: Ice Barrier
T3 - Lvl 45: Frostjaw
T4 - Lvl 60: Cauterize
T5 - Lvl 75: Living Bomb
T6 - Lvl 90: Incanter's Ward
Glyphs:
Major:
Glyph of Combustion: Increases the Direct Damage, duration of DoT effect and cooldown of Combustion by 100%. -MAJOR damage boost (MUST GET)
Glyph of Evocation: Causes Evocation to heal you for 60% of your total health over its duration. -Only heal you will have. lol
Glyph of Deep Freeze: Takes Deep Freeze off the Global Cooldown. -Important because you only have 1-2 freezes and you can't miss the freeze.
Minor:
All of these are optional, I do NOT recommend Glyph of Momentum, also, do NOT get Glyph of Mirror Image as fire because you want them to cast Frostbolt to slow your enemy, Fire has no benefit besides the simple damage it does.
Stat Priority:
6% Spell Hit > Crit Chance > Haste = Mastery
This is telling you that you must get 6% spell hit first, then focus gems enchants and reforging on crit, reforge any gear that already has crit to mastery or haste, whichever you prefer, but do NOT reduce the crit.
Typical Rotation:
Frostjaw/Frost Nova > Deep Freeze > Living Bomb > Scorch > Inferno Blast > Alter Time > Pyroblast (Should Proc, if not use Scorch then use the proc) > Cooldowns and Trinkets > Combustion > Pyroblast (After Alter Time ends) >> Repeat
What this enables you to do is get off an immediate CC triggering you Shatter giving you an almost guaranteed crit chance (2x your crit +50%) causing your Scorch to crit then your Inferno Blast's 100% crit chance to trigger Hot Streak, before using Pyroblast use Alter Time to reset your Buff in 6 Seconds. After using Alter Time use Pyroblast, pop all trinkets/damage increasing cooldowns, and use Combustion then use your Pyroblast from your Alter Time reset.
Tips and Tricks:
- Dragon's Breath + Pyroblast - Use Dragon's Breath and quickly do a Hard Cast Pyroblast, if the enemy uses a trinket to get out of the Breath immediatley stop and switch to Scorch.
- Mage Armor + Casters - Against other casters, IF your crit is above 30% without Molten Armor, then you can freely use Mage Armor to increase survivability against them and increase the damage of Ignite (Mastery)
One Shot Macro/Rotation:
Rotation:
Frostjaw/Frost Nova > Scorch > Inferno Blast > Pyroblast (Hot Streak proc) > One Shot Macro
Macro:
/cast "PvP Trinket"
/cast Mirror Image
/cast Combustion
Because Mirror Image damage is scaled off of Spell Power it is essential to use your PvP Trinket first to maximize your damage output.
That is all for now! Thanks so much for reading this and hope you learned and improved from it, if you have ANY questions at all feel free to PM me or leave a comment below. Don't forget to check back to youtube.com/TheXenos21 to see some of my Fire Mage PvP videos!
Rozenzo - Anvilmar Alliance