Fire Mage

Fire Mage puts 46 points into Fire, 3 points into Frost and 2 points into Arcane by level 60, with no respec on the way.

No talent ability is worth building around here: the points go to passive bonuses.

By our sim, this build gets you from 10 to 60 in about 18% less time than playing with no talents.

At level 40 most of your ability damage comes from Fireball + wand (61%), Fire Blast (24%) and Pyroblast (Hot Streak) (15%).

Each talent gets a tier for how much it helps this build level, by our sim: S best, A strong, B solid, C small, Filler needed to reach deeper talents.

1. 10-11
   

   Improved Fireball 1-2 A

   Fire. A tier: a strong point for leveling.
2. 12-13
   

   Wand Specialization 1-2 A

   Arcane. A tier: a strong point for leveling.
3. 14-16
   

   Improved Fireball 3-5 A

   Fire. A tier: a strong point for leveling.
4. 17-28
   First, filler points:

   • Incineration 1-3C
   • Wake of Fire 1-2C
   • Ignite 1-5
   • Pyroblast 1

   

   Hot Streak 1 B

   Fire, at level 28. B tier: a solid point for leveling.
5. 29-31
   

   Elemental Precision 1-3 B

   Frost. B tier: a solid point for leveling.
6. 32-44
   First, filler points:

   • Flame Throwing 1-2
   • Impact 1-3
   • Burning Soul 1-3

   

   Fire Power 1-5 S

   Fire, at level 40. S tier: one of this build's best points for leveling.
7. 45-47
   

   Critical Mass 1-3 B

   Fire. B tier: a solid point for leveling.
8. 48-50
   

   Improved Flamestrike 1-3 Filler

   Fire. Filler: little value on its own, but it moves you down the tree.

1. 
   Fireball + wand

   filler, wand when low on mana
2. 
   Fire Blast

   on cooldown
3. Pyroblast (Hot Streak)

   after 3 crits (Hot Streak makes it a fast cast)

Share of your ability damage

• Fireball + wand61%
• Fire Blast24%
• Pyroblast (Hot Streak)15%

What our sim found levels best at this level with this build: DoTs once per mob, cooldowns on cooldown, and the rest on your best filler. Auto attacks are always on, so they are not listed.

Spell power > Intellect > MP5 > Stamina > Spirit

• Spell power1.00
• Intellect0.86
• MP50.60
• Stamina0.21
• Spirit0.14

1% crit is worth about 1 Spell power.

Stat values like Pawn: point for point, your best stat is 1.00 and the rest are worth that share of it. MP5 is mana regen per 5 seconds, as item tooltips show it. Your own gear shifts these: the Character page works them out for you.

• Wand mobs down when you run low on mana: it beats drinking more often.
• Watch for Pyroblast (Hot Streak): it only lights up after 3 crits (Hot Streak makes it a fast cast), and it is cheap damage.
• At level 40, for the same item budget, spell power helps most, then Intellect. Look for gear with those first.
• Some points (Ignite, Hot Streak and Flame Throwing and others) are filler to reach the next tier; they do little for leveling on their own.

How this is made: a typical character at each level (Classic-like stats, quest greens for gear) pulling same-level mobs one at a time, with downtime counted. It is an early version, refined as players’ combat logs measure what each talent really does.