7.0.3 Fire Mage Changes [8/1/2016]

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Documentation
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A lot of this was done by testing on the three Training Dummies within Warspear, for 5 minutes each.

My Character: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/stormreaver/Melaniari/advanced
I'm not entirely BIS- so you'll get better results if you are.

2,357 Critical Strike, or 42%
1,893 Haste, or 19%
2,178 Mastery, or 21%
392 Versatility, or 3%

[745] Tome of Shifting Words
[725] Sandman's Pouch [6/6]

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Talents
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T15
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- Pyromaniac is unchanged, and should be used on single target / burn fights that are quick / burst in general.
- Conflagration was buffed by about ~15%-20%, and should be used for fights with adds / AoE, or 3+ targets.
- Firestarter is unchanged, and worthless.

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T30
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- Shimmer is your 'GTFO' or high movement talent. Take if you're comfortable with avoiding mechanics, or you know how to avoid them / control your movement. Unchanged.
- Cauterize is your 'progression', 'idc' talent. Use during progression when you're learning a fight. Unchanged.
- Cold Snap gives you two charges of Ice Block and causes it to heal you. Unchanged beyond fixing the bug where wiping or completing a boss was not resetting all two charges of Ice Block- eg, Mythic Mannoroth.


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T45
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- Mirror Image is unchanged. The mirror images will benefit from your haste, mastery, and crit- but only cast Fireball. Thus, when Time Warp and Combustion are rolling- they do fairly decent damage. This is a 'I don't care' talent- and mainly for lessening the work the mage does on CD usage.
- Rune of Power is unchanged. It is your best talent / CD- providing a massive 50% boost to damage for 10 seconds. Requires management, however. Not many mechanics in Legion or WoD have you moving around constantly- so you can usually stay inside the rune for 10 seconds, easily.
- Incanter's Flow is worthless, and worse then Mirror Image.


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T60
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- Blast Wave seemingly seems unchanged. No clue.
- Flame On is unchanged, and arguably your best talent- giving you a larger opener, with more access to Pyroblast.
- Controlled Burn is too random to be worthwhile. Worthless at the moment.

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T75
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- Ice Floes is essentially your best talent- allowing movement and casting, keeping spell uptime up.
- Ring of Frost is unchanged. Only good for some trash mobs that require stun / root within the instance. Otherwise you use Ice Floes.
- Ice Ward is worthless, and unchanged.

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T90
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- Living Bomb was seemingly buffed- and may pull ahead on fights like Iskar, Assault, or Xhul.
https://i.gyazo.com/d54ab719deea82108edefb8c8c0c5925.png
Seemed to do about 10% of my damage after 5 minutes, on 3 targets, and while being used on CD / for Rune of Power and other CDs.

- Unstable Magic is unchanged- but not a very good talent choice.
https://i.gyazo.com/c731797d1e4d7068a8c711f5f48ce543.png
Seemed to only do about ~3% of my damage after 5 minutes, on 3 targets. Definitely not worth it for single target, or multiple targets.


- Flame Patch is massively changed- but still seems to pull ahead Unstable Magic and Living Bomb. It was nerfed by about ~59% damage.
https://gyazo.com/7b0b20f02f21d5eb3082773031a8c395
Seemed to do about 20% of my damage after 5 minutes, on 3 targets, while using my Hot Streak! on Flamestrike.
https://i.gyazo.com/65004be42f07dea922956f0d3e0ddea5.png
Seemed to do about 11% of my damage after 5 minutes, on 3 targets, while using my Hot Streak! on Pyroblast, and having Flamestrike come as normal from Tome of Shifting Words


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T100
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- Kindling is unchanged. Not currently worth it while the legendary ring exists.
- Cinderstorm is unchanged, and I did not test it. It's safe to say it's best for single target / cleave, however.
- Meteor is slightly changed, and does slightly more damage- and is good for cleave / AoE
Meteor was doing about 2% of my damage after 5 minutes, on 3 targets, on CD. I would need to test Cinderstorm.

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Spell Changes
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- Pyroblast was definitely buffed in damage.
- Dragon's Breath was slightly buffed or nerfed- can't tell.
- Fire Blast was unchanged.
- Fireball was unchanged.
- Flamestrike was definitely nerfed a bit- but I'm not sure by how much.
- Scorch was unchanged.

Anything else mentioned here wasn't changed, or is irrelevant and not used anyways by mages.


It's more worth it now to use Pyroblast on a fight with multiple targets over Flamestrike now. Before, you would use a Hot Streaked Flamestrike on any fight with 2+ targets, because of Flame Patch. Now that Pyroblast has been seemingly buffed- Ignite is higher damage as a result, and obviously spreads itself.