I advise beginners to read IV's fire guide for 6.0 first, and then come back and read this thread if you still got any questions. (http://www.icy-veins.com/wow/fire-mage-pve-dps-guide" target="_blank)
Table of contents:
- When can I go fire?
- What gems should I use? Should I go for socket bonuses?
- What trinkets should I use?
- Two piece t16 or four piece t16? What offpiece(s)?
- How do I combust most optimally now?
- Living Bomb? Blast wave? Unstable Magic? What do I use when?
- Stat priorities?????
When can I go fire?
Minimum ~35% self buffed crit & 4pc t16. If you don't have 4pc t16, you should have at least like 50% self buffed crit, preferably more.
What gems should I use? Should I go for socket bonuses?
Red: http://wod.wowhead.com/item=76659" target="_blank or http://wod.wowhead.com/item=76681" target="_blank (Same gem, doesnt matter which one you pick.)
Yellow: http://wod.wowhead.com/spell=107713" target="_blank
Blue: http://wod.wowhead.com/item=76636" target="_blank
Go for socket bonuses which are a minimum of 4 intellect per red socket. Always go for yellow/blue socket bonuses.
Example: http://wod.wowhead.com/item=99401" target="_blank has 2 red sockets, for an 8 int bonus. This is 4 int per red socket, so you should go for this bonus.
There's one exception, and this is when you're less than 20% haste. At this point, you want to ignore all red sockets and just gem pure crit. (Except obvious ones, like 1 red socket for 11 int, still go for those)
What trinkets should I use?
Always use http://wod.wowhead.com/item=105422" target="_blank aslong as it's within 2 "tiers" of your other available trinkets. (So use flex PBOI over heroic other trinkets. But use heroic warforged trinkets over PBOI)
Then take your highest item level trinket between http://wod.wowhead.com/item=105540" target="_blank and http://wod.wowhead.com/item=105648" target="_blank.
If both are equal item level, use http://wod.wowhead.com/item=105540" target="_blank.
All other trinkets suck.
Two piece t16 or four piece t16? What offpiece(s)?
Use four pieces of tier 16.
Most optimal offpiece: http://wod.wowhead.com/item=105420" target="_blank
Second most optimal offpiece: http://wod.wowhead.com/item=105464" target="_blank
Third/fourth most optimal offpiece: http://wod.wowhead.com/item=105613" target="_blank equal to http://wod.wowhead.com/item=105604" target="_blank, gloves being better on fast kills, chest on long kills.
How do I combust most optimally now?
Get something that tracks ignite values. I personally use weakauras for this, but addons like combustionhelper or mybigignite work as well if they're updated.
My weakaura:
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What you want to do is the following:
- Get at least 1 trinket proc, preferably both.
- Get a heating up proc -> inferno blast. (for 4pc)
- Keep casting fireballs until you got a new heating up proc, so you have both pyroblast! and Heating Up.
- While fireball is in the air, start spamming pyroblasts. If you get a bit lucky, you should get 3 pyros in a row, all during your intellect procs. If you get even more lucky, you get some (double) multistrikes from your pyros. During your pyro spam, take note of your ignite value, and watch it going up/down a bit. At the peak of your ignite, use combustion.
- If during the 3 pyroblasts your ignite LOWERED from the third pyroblast hitting the boss, cast inferno blast (and a new pyroblast if it procs) after it, and use combustion off of that.
The biggest thing to note is, your high/low points of ignite. You need to start understanding what a "high" ignite is for your character, and what a low ignite is for your character, and judge your combustions off of that. In general, if you get 3 pyroblasts in a row during 2 intellect procs, that will be your best moment to combustion. However, multistrikes make it a lot more random, so watch for random ignite spikes.
An example ignite from my character (587 ilvl, decent mastery, not super high though) a high ignite is like 12k, whereas an acceptable one for combustion is 9k+. If I see 15k+ ignite I instantly combust, because that's very high for my character. My rank 1 parses were all done with less than 13k ignites, so it's not that big of a deal to aim extremely high.
Living Bomb? Blast wave? Unstable Magic? What do I use when?
NEVER use Living bomb on a pure single target fight! It is a DPS LOSS to use Living Bomb in a single target scenario.
- For pure single target, use unstable magic.
- For AoE DPS for short periods of time use Blast Wave.
- For prolonged periods of cleaving between 2+ targets, use Living Bomb, and make sure you spread it before it explodes.
Stat priorities????
Crit > mastery = haste till ~20% > multistrike > haste = int > spellpower > versatility.
Mastery = haste till ~20% only applies when using t16 2pc.
Being less than 20% haste is fine, but crit becomes even more valuable then, and you will want to ignore all socket bonuses and go for pure crit. (Except very obvious socket bonuses, like 1 red socket for 11 int)
