A Look Back at Fire Mage in Dragonflight & War Within Wishlist - Editorial

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With the sun setting on Dragonflight and The War Within on the horizon, our Fire Mage Writer, Preheat, offers a retrospective highlighting Fire's journey in Dragonflight and shares their hopes for the spec's next evolution with a War Within Wishlist.

Dragonflight Retrospectives & War Within Wishlists

Dragonflight Fiery Post-Mortem & a War Within Wishlist

Now that Dragonflight is coming to a close, and The War Within is close approaching it is time to consider how Hero Talents and other potential changes may shape Fire Mage in the years to come. But before we look forward, let's take a moment to recap Dragonflight. The evolution of Fire Mage gameplay throughout the duration of Dragonflight is best summarized by looking at the talent tree and changes to it over the expansion. By looking at these changes, we can see the direction Fire has taken and perhaps make some predictions about Hero Talents, too.

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Fire Mage Gameplay

Fire Mage gameplay is simple at first glance, the goal is to cast as many Pyroblasts (or Flamestrikes) as possible while maintaining various buffs and having as much uptime on your cooldown, Combustion, as possible. Hot Streak is the primary vehicle for shipping Pyroblast into your enemies' faces and casting spells with Combustion alongside Fire Blast usage is the best way to generate crits to convert Heating Up into Hot Streak. This is the core gameplay loop of Fire, and has been since before this talent system.

Dragonflight Talent System
Dragonflight introduced the new talent tree system and we have had plenty of time to get familiar with it. Overall, the system has been a success, but it wasn't always this way. Mage talents had a very rocky start in Dragonflight but