Fire Mage Talents

The War Within Pre-Patch

Talents in World of Warcraft define your character's gameplay. They offer active abilities for offense and defense, major cooldowns, or passive enhancements to your stats and spells. Here are the current Fire Mage talents for The War Within Pre-Patch.

Where to Find Talents

Talents can be found in the talent menu, which is accessible by pressing the N key (default) or by clicking the target icon in the micro menu:

Screenshot of the talents button in the micro menu

Class Talents

Class talents represent a common tree shared across all Mage specializations. These talents provide foundational skills and enhancements essential to the Mage class, offering a range of abilities that lay the groundwork for a Mage's overall capabilities.

Name	Cast	Effect
Blazing Barrier	Instant - 25 Sec Cooldown	Shields you in flame, absorbing 39,468 damage for 1 min. Melee attacks against you cause the attacker to take 795 Fire damage.
Ice Block	Instant - 4 Min Cooldown	Encases you in a block of ice, protecting you from all attacks and damage for 10 sec, but during that time you cannot attack, move, or cast spells. Causes Hypothermia, preventing you from recasting Ice Block for 30 sec.
Overflowing Energy	Passive	Your spell critical strike damage is increased by 10%. When your direct damage spells fail to critically strike a target, your spell critical strike chance is increased by 2%, up to 10% for 8 sec. When your spells critically strike Overflowing Energy is reset.
Incanter's Flow	Passive	Magical energy flows through you while in combat, building up to 10% increased damage and then diminishing down to 2% increased damage, cycling every 10 sec.
Winter's Protection	Passive	The cooldown of Ice Block is reduced by 60 sec.
Spellsteal	Instant - 40 Yd Range	Steals a beneficial magic effect from the target. This effect lasts a maximum of 2 min.
Tempest Barrier	Passive	Gain a shield that absorbs 6% of your maximum health for 15 sec after you Blink.
Incantation of Swiftness	Passive	Invisibility increases your movement speed by 80% for 6 sec.
Remove Curse	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 8 Sec Cooldown	Removes all Curses from a friendly target.
Arcane Warding	Passive	Reduces magic damage taken by 4%.
Mirror Image	Instant - 2 Min Cooldown	Creates 3 copies of you nearby for 40 sec, which cast spells and attack your enemies. While your images are active damage taken is reduced by 20%. Taking direct damage will cause one of your images to dissipate.
Shifting Power	Channeled - 1 Min Cooldown	Draw power from within, dealing 13,566 Arcane damage over 3.6 sec to enemies within 18 yds. While channeling, your Mage ability cooldowns are reduced by 12 sec over 3.6 sec.
Alter Time	Instant - 1 Min Cooldown	Alters the fabric of time, returning you to your current location and health when cast a second time, or after 10 sec. Effect negated by long distance or death.
Cryo-Freeze	Passive	While inside Ice Block, you heal for 50% of your maximum health over the duration.
Reduplication	Passive	Mirror Image's cooldown is reduced by 10 sec whenever a Mirror Image dissipates due to direct damage.
Reabsorption	Passive	You are healed for 3% of your maximum health whenever a Mirror Image dissipates due to direct damage.
Quick Witted	Passive	Successfully interrupting an enemy with Counterspell reduces its cooldown by 4 sec.
Mass Polymorph	1.7 Sec Cast - 1 Min Cooldown	Transforms all enemies within 10 yards into sheep, wandering around incapacitated for 15 sec. While affected, the victims cannot take actions but will regenerate health very quickly. Damage will cancel the effect. Only works on Beasts, Humanoids and Critters.
Slow	Instant - 35 Yd Range	Reduces the target's movement speed by 50% for 15 sec.
Master of Time	Passive	Reduces the cooldown of Alter Time by 10 sec. Alter Time resets the cooldown of Blink and Shimmer when you return to your original location.
Diverted Energy	Passive	Your Barriers heal you for 40% of the damage absorbed.
Ring of Frost	2 Sec Cast - 30 Yd Range - 45 Sec Cooldown	Summons a Ring of Frost for 10 sec at the target location. Enemies entering the ring are incapacitated for 10 sec. Limit 10 targets. When the incapacitate expires, enemies are slowed by 65% for 4 sec.
Ice Nova	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 25 Sec Cooldown	Causes a whirl of icy wind around the enemy, dealing 7,649 Frost damage to the target and reduced damage to all other enemies within 8 yds, and freezing them in place for 2 sec.
Shimmer	Instant - 0.5 Sec Cooldown	Teleports you 20 yds forward, unless something is in the way. Unaffected by the global cooldown and castable while casting.
Ice Floes	Instant	Makes your next Mage spell with a cast time shorter than 10 sec castable while moving. Unaffected by the global cooldown and castable while casting.
Blast Wave	Instant - 30 Sec Cooldown	Causes an explosion around yourself, dealing 2,987 Fire damage to all enemies within 8 yds, knocking them back, and reducing movement speed by 70% for 6 sec.
Improved Frost Nova	Passive	Frost Nova duration is increased by 2 sec.
Rigid Ice	Passive	Frost Nova can withstand 80% more damage before breaking.
Tome of Rhonin	Passive	Increases Critical Strike chance by 2%.
Dragon's Breath	Instant - 45 Sec Cooldown	Enemies in a cone in front of you take 3,645 Fire damage and are disoriented for 4 sec. Damage will cancel the effect.
Supernova	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 45 Sec Cooldown	Pulses arcane energy around the target enemy or ally, dealing 2,304 Arcane damage to all enemies within 8 yds, and knocking them upward. A primary enemy target will take 100% increased damage.
Tome of Antonidas	Passive	Increases Haste by 2%.
Volatile Detonation	Passive	Greatly increases the effect of Blast Wave's knockback. Blast Wave's cooldown is reduced by 5 sec
Energized Barriers	Passive	When your barrier receives melee attacks, you have a 10% chance to be granted Clearcasting. Casting your barrier removes all snare effects.
Frigid Winds	Passive	All of your snare effects reduce the target's movement speed by an additional 10%.
Flow of Time	Passive	The cooldowns of Blink and Shimmer are reduced by 4 sec.
Temporal Velocity	Passive	Increases your movement speed by 20% for 3 sec after casting Blink and 40% for 6 sec after returning from Alter Time.
Ice Ward	Passive	Frost Nova now has 2 charges.
Freezing Cold	Passive	Enemies hit by Cone of Cold are frozen in place for 5 sec instead of snared. When your roots expire or are dispelled, your target is snared by 80%, decaying over 3 sec.
Time Manipulation	Passive	Casting Clearcasting Arcane Missiles reduces the cooldown of your loss of control abilities by 2 sec.
Displacement	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 45 Sec Cooldown	Teleports you back to where you last Blinked and heals you for 39,468 health. Only usable within 8 sec of Blinking.
Accumulative Shielding	Passive	Your barrier's cooldown recharges 30% faster while the shield persists.
Greater Invisibility	Instant - 2 Min Cooldown	Makes you invisible and untargetable for 20 sec, removing all threat. Any action taken cancels this effect. You take 60% reduced damage while invisible and for 3 sec after reappearing.
Barrier Diffusion	Passive - 100 Yd Range	Whenever one of your Barriers is removed, reduce its cooldown by 4 sec.
Ice Cold	Passive	Ice Block now reduces all damage taken by 70% for 6 sec but no longer grants Immunity, prevents movement, attacks, or casting spells. Does not incur the Global Cooldown.
Time Anomaly	Passive	At any moment, you have a chance to gain Arcane Surge for 4 sec, Clearcasting, or Time Warp for 6 sec.
Inspired Intellect	Passive	Arcane Intellect grants you an additional 3% Intellect.
Mass Invisibility	Instant - 5 Min Cooldown	You and your allies within 40 yards instantly become invisible for 12 sec. Taking any action will cancel the effect. Does not affect allies in combat.
Mass Barrier	Instant - 3 Min Cooldown	Cast Prismatic Barrier on yourself and 4 allies within 40 yds.

Specialization Talents

Specialization talents provide Fire Mages with unique abilities and enhancements tailored to their combat style. These talents differentiate Fire Mages from other Mage specializations, maximizing effectiveness in combat.

Name	Cast	Effect
Pyroblast	4 Sec Cast - 40 Yd Range	Hurls an immense fiery boulder that causes 10,340 Fire damage.
Fire Blast	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 0.5 Sec Cooldown	Blasts the enemy for 7,347 Fire damage. ire: Castable while casting other spells. Always deals a critical strike.
Firestarter	Passive	Your Fireball and Pyroblast spells always deal a critical strike when the target is above 90% health.
Phoenix Flames	Instant - 40 Yd Range	Hurls a Phoenix that deals 4,310 Fire damage to the target and reduced damage to other nearby enemies.
Pyrotechnics	Passive	Each time your Fireball fails to critically strike a target, it gains a stacking 10% increased critical strike chance. Effect ends when Fireball critically strikes.
Fervent Flickering	Passive	Fire Blast's cooldown is reduced by 2 sec.
Call of the Sun King	Passive	Phoenix Flames gains 1 additional charge and always critically strikes.
Majesty of the Phoenix	Passive	When Phoenix Flames damages 3 or more targets, your next 2 Flamestrikes have their cast time reduced by 1.5 sec and their damage is increased by 20%.
Scorch	1.5 Sec Cast - 40 Yd Range	Scorches an enemy for 1,639 Fire damage. Scorch is a guaranteed critical strike and increases your movement speed by 30% for 3 sec when cast on a target below 30% health. Castable while moving.
Surging Blaze	Passive	Pyroblast and Flamestrike's cast time is reduced by 0.5 sec and their damage dealt is increased by 5%.
Lit Fuse	Passive - 40 Yd Range	Consuming Hot Streak has a 4% chance to grant you Lit Fuse. it Fuse: Your next Fire Blast turns up to 1 nearby target into a Living Bomb that explodes after 1.8 sec, dealing 823 Fire damage to the target and reduced damage to all other enemies within 10 yds. Up to 3 enemies hit by this explosion also become a Living Bomb, but this effect cannot spread further.
Improved Scorch	Passive	Casting Scorch on targets below 30% health increase the target's damage taken from you by 7% for 12 sec. This effect stacks up to 2 times.
Scald	Passive	Scorch deals 300% increased damage to targets below 30% health.
Heat Shimmer	Passive	Damage from Ignite has a 5% chance to make your next Scorch have no cast time and deal damage as though your target was below 30% health.
Flame On	Passive	Increases the maximum number of Fire Blast charges by 2.
Flame Accelerant	Passive	Every 12 seconds, your next non-instant Fireball, Flamestrike, or Pyroblast has a 40% reduced cast time.
Critical Mass	Passive	Your spells have a 5% increased chance to deal a critical strike. You gain 10% more of the Critical Strike stat from all sources.
Sparking Cinders	Passive	Living Bomb explosions have a small chance to increase the damage of your next Pyroblast by 10% or Flamestrike by 20%.
Explosive Ingenuity	Passive	Your chance of gaining Lit Fuse when consuming Hot Streak is increased by 3%. Living Bomb damage increased by 25%.
Inflame	Passive	Hot Streak increases the amount of Ignite damage from Pyroblast or Flamestrike by an additional 10%.
Ashen Feather	Passive	If Phoenix Flames only hits 1 target, it deals 25% increased damage and applies Ignite at 150% effectiveness.
Alexstrasza's Fury	Passive - 45 Sec Cooldown	Dragon's Breath always critically strikes, deals 50% increased critical strike damage, and contributes to Hot Streak.
Intensifying Flame	Passive	While Ignite is on 3 or fewer enemies it flares up dealing an additional 20% of its damage to affected targets.
Combustion	Instant - 2 Min Cooldown	Engulfs you in flames for 10 sec, increasing your spells' critical strike chance by 100% . Castable while casting other spells.
Controlled Destruction	Passive	Damaging a target with Pyroblast increases the damage it receives from Ignite by 0.5%. Stacks up to 50 times.
Flame Patch	Passive	Flamestrike leaves behind a patch of flames that burns enemies within it for 2,071 Fire damage over 8 sec. Deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
Quickflame	Passive	Flamestrike damage increased by 25%.
Convection	Passive	When a Living Bomb expires, if it did not spread to another target, it reapplies itself at 100% effectiveness. A Living Bomb can only benefit from this effect once.
Master of Flame	Passive	Ignite deals 15% more damage while Combustion is not active. Fire Blast spreads Ignite to 2 additional nearby targets during Combustion.
Wildfire	Passive	Your critical strike damage is increased by 3%. When you activate Combustion, you gain 2% additional critical strike damage, and up to 4 nearby allies gain 1% critical strike for 10 sec.
Improved Combustion	Passive	Combustion grants mastery equal to 75% of your Critical Strike stat and lasts 2 sec longer.
Spontaneous Combustion	Passive	Casting Combustion refreshes up to 3 charges of Fire Blast and up to 3 charges of Phoenix Flames.
Feel the Burn	Passive	Fire Blast and Phoenix Flames increase your mastery by 4% for 5 sec. This effect stacks up to 3 times.
Mark of the Firelord	Passive	Flamestrike and Living Bomb apply Mastery: Ignite at 100% increased effectiveness.
Fevered Incantation	Passive	Each consecutive critical strike you deal increases critical strike damage you deal by 2%, up to 8% for 6 sec.
Kindling	Passive	Your Fireball, Pyroblast, Fire Blast, Scorch and Phoenix Flames critical strikes reduce the remaining cooldown on Combustion by 1.0 sec. Flamestrike critical strikes reduce the remaining cooldown of Combustion by 0.2 sec for each critical strike, up to 1 sec.
Fire's Ire	Passive	When you're not under the effect of Combustion, your critical strike chance is increased by 5.0%. While you're under the effect of Combustion, your critical strike damage is increased by 5.0%.
Pyromaniac	Passive	Casting Pyroblast or Flamestrike while Hot Streak is active has an 6% chance to repeat the spell cast at 50% effectiveness. This effect counts as consuming Hot Streak.
Molten Fury	Passive	Damage dealt to targets below 35% health is increased by 7%.
From the Ashes	Passive	Phoenix Flames damage increased by 15% and your direct-damage spells reduce the cooldown of Phoenix Flames by 1 sec.
Fiery Rush	Passive	While Combustion is active, your Fire Blast and Phoenix Flames recharge 50% faster.
Meteor	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 45 Sec Cooldown	Calls down a meteor which lands at the target location after 3 sec, dealing 16,373 Fire damage to all enemies hit reduced beyond 8 targets, and burns the ground, dealing 3,780 Fire damage over 8.5 sec to all enemies in the area.
Firefall	Passive	Damaging an enemy with 15 Fireballs or Pyroblasts causes your next Fireball or Pyroblast to call down a Meteor on your target.
Explosivo	Passive	Casting Combustion grants Lit Fuse and Living Bomb's damage is increased by 40% while under the effects of Combustion.
Hyperthermia	Passive	While Combustion is not active, consuming Hot Streak has a low chance to cause all Pyroblasts and Flamestrikes to have no cast time and be guaranteed critical strikes for 6 sec.
Phoenix Reborn	Passive	When your direct damage spells hit an enemy 25 times the damage of your next 2 Phoenix Flames is increased by 100% and they refund a charge on use.
Sun King's Blessing	Passive	After consuming 10 Hot Streaks, your next non-instant Pyroblast or Flamestrike cast within 30 sec grants you Combustion for 6 sec and deals 260% additional damage.
Unleashed Inferno	Passive	While Combustion is active your Fireball, Pyroblast, Fire Blast, Scorch, and Phoenix Flames deal 60% increased damage and reduce the cooldown of Combustion by 1.25 sec. While Combustion is active, Flamestrike deals 35% increased damage and reduces the cooldown of Combustion by 0.25 sec for each critical strike, up to 1.25 sec.
Deep Impact	Passive	Meteor now turns 1 target hit into a Living Bomb. Additionally, its cooldown is reduced by 10 sec.
Blast Zone	Passive	Lit Fuse now turns up to 3 targets into Living Bombs. Living Bombs can now spread to 5 enemies.

Hero Talents

Hero talents allow for deeper customization of the Fire Mage class fantasy, further enhancing its combat effectiveness.

Sunfury

Name	Cast	Effect
Spellfire Spheres	Passive	Every 6 times you cast Arcane Blast or Arcane Barrage, conjure a Spellfire Sphere. While you're out of combat, you will slowly conjure Spellfire Spheres over time. pellfire Sphere Increases your spell damage by 2%. Stacks up to 3 times.
Mana Cascade	Passive	Casting Arcane Blast or Arcane Barrage grants you 1.0% Haste for 10 sec. Stacks up to 10 times. Multiple instances may overlap.
Invocation: Arcane Phoenix	Passive	When you cast Arcane Surge, summon an Arcane Phoenix to aid you in battle. rcane Phoenix Your Arcane Phoenix aids you for the duration of your Arcane Surge, casting random Arcane and Fire spells.
Burden of Power	Passive	Conjuring a Spellfire Sphere increases the damage of your next Arcane Blast by 30% or your next Arcane Barrage by 30%.
Merely a Setback	Passive	Your Prismatic Barrier now grants 5% avoidance while active and 5% leech for 5 seconds when it breaks or expires.
Lessons in Debilitation	Passive	Your Arcane Phoenix will Spellsteal when it is summoned and when it expires.
Gravity Lapse	Passive	Your Supernova becomes Gravity Lapse. ravity Lapse The snap of your fingers warps the gravity around your target and 4 other nearby enemies, suspending them in the air for 3 sec. Upon landing, nearby enemies take 3,281 Arcane damage.
Glorious Incandescence	Passive	Consuming Burden of Power causes your next cast of Arcane Barrage to grant 4 Arcane Charges and call down a storm of 4 Meteorites on its target.
Savor the Moment	Passive	When you cast Arcane Surge, its duration is extended by 0.5 sec for each Spellfire Sphere you have, up to 2.5 sec.
Sunfury Execution	Passive	Arcane Bombardment damage bonus increased to 130%. rcane Bombardment Arcane Barrage deals an additional 100% damage against targets below 35% health.
Codex of the Sunstriders	Passive	Over its duration, your Arcane Phoenix will consume each of your Spellfire Spheres to cast an exceptional spell. Upon consuming a Spellfire Sphere, your Arcane Phoenix will grant you Lingering Embers. ingering Embers Increases your spell damage by 2%.
Rondurmancy	Passive	Spellfire Spheres can now stack up to 5 times.
Ignite the Future	Passive	Generating a Spellfire Sphere while your Phoenix is active causes it to cast an exceptional spell.
Memory of Al'ar	Passive	While under the effects of a casted Arcane Surge, you gain twice as many stacks of Mana Cascade. When your Arcane Phoenix expires, it empowers you, granting Arcane Soul for 3 sec, plus an additional 0.5 sec for each exceptional spell it had cast. rcane Soul: Arcane Barrage grants Clearcasting and generates 4 Arcane Charges.

Frostfire

Name	Cast	Effect
Frostfire Mastery	Passive	Your damaging Fire spells generate 1 stack of Fire Mastery and Frost spells generate 1 stack of Frost Mastery. Fire Mastery increases your haste by 1%, and Frost Mastery increases your Mastery by 1% for 14 sec, stacking up to 6 times each. Adding stacks does not refresh duration.
Imbued Warding	Passive
Meltdown	Passive	You melt slightly out of your Ice Block and Ice Cold, allowing you to move slowly during Ice Block and increasing your movement speed over time. Ice Block and Ice Cold trigger a Blazing Barrier when they end.
Frostfire Bolt	2 Sec Cast - 40 Yd Range	Launches a bolt of frostfire at the enemy, causing 6,144 Frostfire damage, slowing movement speed by 50%, and causing an additional 2,445 Frostfire damage over 8 sec. Frostfire Bolt generates stacks for both Fire Mastery and Frost Mastery.
Elemental Affinity	Passive
Flame and Frost	Passive
Isothermic Core	Passive	Comet Storm now also calls down a Meteor at 100% effectiveness onto your target's location. Meteor now also calls down a Comet Storm at 150% effectiveness onto your target location.
Severe Temperatures	Passive	Casting damaging Frost or Fire spells has a high chance to increase the damage of your next Frostfire Bolt by 10%, stacking up to 5 times.
Thermal Conditioning	Passive	Frostfire Bolt's cast time is reduced by 10%.
Frostfire Infusion	Passive	Your Frost and Fire spells have a chance to trigger an additional bolt of Frostfire, dealing 1,660 damage. This effect generates Frostfire Mastery when activated.
Excess Frost	Passive	Reaching maximum stacks of Frost Mastery causes your next to also cast Ice Nova at 125% effectiveness. When you consume Excess Frost, the cooldown of is reduced by 5 sec.
Frostfire Empowerment	Passive	Your Frost and Fire spells have a chance to activate Frostfire Empowerment, causing your next Frostfire Bolt to be instant cast, deal 50% increased damage, explode for 80% of its damage to nearby enemies, and grant you maximum benefit of Frostfire Mastery and refresh its duration.
Excess Fire	Passive	Reaching maximum stacks of Fire Mastery causes your next to apply Living Bomb at 150% effectiveness. When this Living Bomb explodes, .
Flash Freezeburn	Passive	Frostfire Empowerment grants you maximum benefit of Frostfire Mastery and refreshes its duration. Activating Combustion or Icy Veins grants you Frostfire Empowerment.

PvP Talents

PvP talents are tailored for player-versus-player combat scenarios. Activated in arenas, battlegrounds, and the open world with War Mode enabled, these talents optimize a Fire Mage 's performance in PvP encounters. They provide specialized enhancements that give players an edge in combat against other players.

Name	Cast	Effect
World in Flames		Empower Flamestrike, dealing up to 100% more damage based on enemies' distance to the center of Flamestrike.
Greater Pyroblast		Hurls an immense fiery boulder that deals up to 35% of the target's total health in Fire damage.
Ring of Fire		Summons a Ring of Fire for 8 sec at the target location. Enemies entering the ring burn for 18% of their total health over 6 sec.
Ice Wall		Conjures an Ice Wall 30 yards long that obstructs line of sight. The wall has 40% of your maximum health and lasts up to 15 sec.
Glass Cannon		Increases damage of Fireball, Scorch, and Ignite by 30% but decreases your maximum health by 15%.
Master Shepherd		While an enemy player is affected by your Polymorph or Mass Polymorph, your movement speed is increased by 25% and your Versatility is increased by 12%. Additionally, Polymorph and Mass Polymorph no longer heal enemies.
Ethereal Blink		Blink and Shimmer apply Slow at 100% effectiveness to all enemies you Blink through. For each enemy you Blink through, the cooldown of Blink and Shimmer are reduced by 1 sec, up to 5 sec.
Improved Mass Invisibility		The cooldown of Mass Invisibility is reduced by 4 min and can affect allies in combat.
Fireheart		Blazing Barrier's damage is increased by 800%.