Fire Mage PvE Guide Cataclysm

didnt play OG cata makes a cata class video makes sense

The guide is awesome and I still parse 40 because somehow top mages do like 15mil dmg in 1 combust on 4 targets on like halfus 🤔🤷

i just gotta say, that after playing this game for 20 years, more or less, i think its sad that THIS is the state the game have gotten to...

Logs?
Parses?`
min/max?
Guildes which needs to be followed @ 100%, so you play your character to the max?

Why couldnt people just play the game and leave it casual, instead of making this "lal you cant parse 99% and lol you dont stream wut bro geeze gtfo"


Game got wrecked many years ago by those people who decided this was their job.

The guide is kind of incorrect for AoE, no? Or at least, underexplained. Usually you want to target 1 mob and try to get a massive ignite + combust and then spread it, which will do so much more damage than blast wave + dragons breath.
Especially in raids where all the mobs have time to run out the combust spread, your DPS will be a lot higher than just spamming AoE spells.

Not listing the yellow or blue gems was a mistake.

Do you really need 17% hit?

What if I got no hit trinket im lacking the hit with only running +40 int gems

Approximately how much Pre-Raid Critical percentage does a mage need? And since we're at it, approximately how much Critical would it be with a full bis?

I think I'm doing something wrong, and that is that I have 15% hit, 9% haste, and 20% critical, without using the fire shield.

Awesome guide thanks! May i ask if your Weakaura link works? Its returning with an error

dont u have to use flamestrike first then blast wave? o.O

I normally don’t comment on these but you deserve more follows. You helped me with 1-2 things and that says a lot since I’ve played mage since 05. Such a great video thank you.

hey! ty for the guide - how come some mages use Flame orb before a combust? And why do we wait to combust before using flame orb?

How much haste will I need if my 10man has no spell haste buff?

cauterize is generally a dps increase cause u dont have to move for mechanics at times

How high should your ignite be in order to hit combust? Like what's the optimal number? That's where I'm struggling. Usually I hit combust at 11-12k ignites and sometimes when rng hates me I see 25-26k ingites while my combust is down

I'm very rusty at mage in general and have only really played Frost previously. Being completely new to Fire, and after watching WAY too many videos, this is hands down the best guide I've found to make sense of all of this. I had to turn the play speed down to 50% though, as I felt like I was vibrating out of my chair trying to keep up. Bonus of half speed playback, Sardaco is totally understandable but sounds like he's falling off his barstool smashed! 😆 Thank you very much for the excellent guide! Subscribed.

Question
Is fire better than arcane
I new to mage so all the help is appreciated

Couple of questions. First, is there a reason we are casting Flame Orb right after combustion? Second, when is the best time to pop gloves/racials?

Do you recommend to use combustion already on the first ignite crit? Dont you have to try to stack ignite as high as possible?

Bro the question ist how to get big ignite

i wouldnt suggest using comubstion before you had a pyro proc because the debuff is missing and the ignite can be bigger

Sardaco did u just figure out how to get views ? ❤

Just a tip, once you are looking at people's rotation, it's better to use the "Cast" timeline. At least it is for me.

Does remaining time on dots affect the dmg of combustion?

torn between goblin or troll, I think both are cool, i'm currently bloodelf but i forgot they don't have 1% crit yet, is there any debate on that? getting 15 and then 25% haste can be nice, but popping berserking during a Combustion can be evern more juicy than anything a goblin will ever pull off, i'm not a BIG NUMBAS guy but i care about overall results, and what i've learnt is comboing spells + trinket procs + cds = good results, i'd love to hear suggestions / arguements for those reading

The main reason I subscribed (in addition to your great guides) is that your intro is literally 5 seconds long and not 2 minutes of begging to subscribe and buy various guides.

Thank you!!!

Man i gotta say thanks for being the first class guide ive ever seen that took the time to explain warcraft logs, wish all the other guide creators did the same and then we could all be better for it

when do u use Engi gloves?

High-powered Bolt gun is a great mention as well for situational DPS output and can help DPS overall on fights.

what unit frames are you using?

Thanks for this! I’ve been looking for a high parsing guide for mage. Just picked it up this expac and was only able to get one 99 parse (pure luck), the rest blues. I’ve been completely stating incorrectly and not utilizing my CDs on opener. This made everything so much more clear ❤

why i need hit rating on mage?
should be intellect crits and haste

One thing I would keep in mind when you're looking at the logs for top fire mages, is how much variance there is in Fire Mage with combustions. Since you're looking at the absolute top logs, it's going to be mostly pulls with the crazy slightly greedier combusts, which might not be the play every pull.