However, there are some small ways you can improve both your damage and your general usefulness to the raid, some of which aren’t even specific to the mage class itself. The general mechanics of a fire mage are quite simple- find a (safe) place to stand and start firing upon your enemy. Please see the FAQ for full explanations of when that is, and more importantly why that is. There are specific gear sets and group compositions in which another spec will grant you more damage- the most well known of these is Arcane. As a whole, fire is the most versatile and reliable of the three mages specs and tends to do the most overall damage throughout all gear levels.
You’ll notice that despite that claim, this is a fire mage compendium. Here I hope to dispel some of those rumors and teach you how to be the best mage you can be, even if you’ve never even played mage at all. Mages, as a class, tend to have a distinctly unique amount of useless misinformation left fallow among messages boards both old and new.
