Mage PvE Fire/Torment The Weak DPS
While there are other specs that can be used in PVE, Fire/TTW is widely considered the best and most viable spec for high level raiding.
How to Play
- Glyphs
- Glyph of Fireball
- Glyph of Living Bomb
- Glyph of Molten Armor
- Key Stats
- 14% (368) Hit rating
- Spell Power
- Crit rating
- Haste rating
- Intellect and Spirit are also useful stats but not ones you should gem for
- Buffs
- Molten Armor
- Focus Magic (Cast on someone who will crit often to increase your crit as well)
- Arcane Intellect
- Amplify Magic (Cast on VDW to increase healing on her)
- Flask
- Flask of the Frostwyrm
- Key Cooldowns
- Mirror Images is your main damage CD. Note that 4 piece Tier 10 set bonus significantly improves it.
- Combustion
- Blink is extremely useful for a number of situations where you need to move during a fight
- Rotation
- Ensure Scorch or equivalent debuff is on the target (Demo Lock)
- Keep Living Bomb on the target but make sure you allow it to finish (explode) before you recast it
- Cast Fireball when you don't have anything else to do
- When you gain the Hot Streak buff, use Pyroblast which becomes an instant cast with Hot Streak
- Utilities
- Ice Block - use it to save yourself from taking damage. Also works to prevent Flames on BQL, and being thrown around on BPC.
- Ritual of Refreshment, AKA Mage Table. Feed yourself and your raid members.
- Evocation - restore mana quickly