Mage Fire Rotation & Opener

First ~12 casts of actual top-ranked kills. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Pyroblast 2 Time WarpOff-GCD 3 Fire BlastOff-GCD 4 Fireball 5 Pyroblast 6 Pyroblast 7 Fire BlastOff-GCD 8 Pyroblast 9 Fire BlastOff-GCD 10 Pyroblast 11 Fire BlastOff-GCD 12 Pyroblast 13 Meteor 14 Empowering VenomOff-GCD 15 Light's PotentialOff-GCD

1 Pyroblast 2 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 3 Fire BlastOff-GCD 4 Fireball 5 Pyroblast 6 Pyroblast 7 Meteor 8 CombustionOff-GCD 9 Fire BlastOff-GCD 10 Pyroblast 11 Pyroblast 12 Emberwing HeatwaveOff-GCD 13 Pyroblast 14 Fire BlastOff-GCD 15 Pyroblast

1 Pyroblast 2 Time WarpOff-GCD 3 Fire BlastOff-GCD 4 Fireball 5 Pyroblast 6 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 7 Pyroblast 8 Fire BlastOff-GCD 9 Pyroblast 10 Fire BlastOff-GCD 11 Pyroblast 12 Fire BlastOff-GCD 13 Fireball 14 Pyroblast 15 Pyroblast

#showtooltip Pyroblast
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Fire Blast
/cast Pyroblast

Ability	Top-player CPM
Pyroblast	29.2
Fire BlastOff-GCD	21.1
Scorch	6.9
Fireball	6.4
Meteor	1.8
Blazing Barrier	1.1
CombustionOff-GCD	1.0
ShimmerOff-GCD	1.0
Empowering VenomOff-GCD	0.4

CPM = median casts per minute across the sampled top kills. If you're far below on a core ability, that's usually the first thing to fix.

First ~12 casts after the pull starts, taken from actual top key runs: the AoE opener is the first pack of the run, the single-target opener is the first boss. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Mirror Image 2 Fire BlastOff-GCD 3 ShimmerOff-GCD 4 Fire BlastOff-GCD 5 Fireball 6 Pyroblast 7 Pyroblast 8 Fire BlastOff-GCD 9 Pyroblast 10 Fire BlastOff-GCD 11 Pyroblast 12 Alter TimeOff-GCD 13 Time WarpOff-GCD 14 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 15 Fire BlastOff-GCD

1 Greater Invisibility 2 Greater Invisibility 3 The King's Unyielding Wind 4 ShimmerOff-GCD 5 Time WarpOff-GCD 6 Meteor 7 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 8 CombustionOff-GCD 9 Flamestrike 10 Fire BlastOff-GCD 11 Flamestrike 12 Fire BlastOff-GCD 13 Flamestrike 14 Fire BlastOff-GCD 15 Flamestrike

1 Fireball 2 Mirror Image 3 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 4 Time WarpOff-GCD 5 Meteor 6 Fire BlastOff-GCD 7 CombustionOff-GCD 8 Fireball 9 Flamestrike 10 Empowering VenomOff-GCD 11 Flamestrike 12 Fire BlastOff-GCD 13 Flamestrike 14 Fire BlastOff-GCD 15 Alter TimeOff-GCD

#showtooltip Fireball
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Fire Blast
/cast Combustion
/cast Fireball

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#showtooltip Combustion
/cast Ancestral Call
/cast Berserking
/cast Blood Fury
/cast Combustion
/use 13
/use 14

#showtooltip Flamestrike
/cast [@cursor] Flamestrike

#showtooltip Meteor
/cast [@cursor] Meteor

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast Blink

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cancelaura Ice Block
/cast Ice Block

/cancelaura Ice Block

/cancelaura Alter Time

#showtooltip
/cast [target=mouseover,exists] Remove Curse; Remove Curse

Keybinds are personal — this is not a layout to copy wholesale. What it does say is which abilities you press most, measured from the same top parses above: the more often an ability is cast, the less effort its key should take. Interrupts, defensives and movement are deliberately left out; they barely register in cast data yet must always be within reach, so choose those yourself.

Rows marked Passive are not pressed at all — they fire on their own (auto-attacks, procs) and get no key, even though they top the casts-per-minute table.

Key	Ability	Top-player CPM
1	Pyroblast	29.2
2	Fire BlastOff-GCD	21.1
3	Flamestrike	10.5
4	Scorch	6.9
5	Fireball	6.4
Z	Meteor	1.8
X	Blazing Barrier	1.3
C	CombustionOff-GCD	1.0
V	ShimmerOff-GCD	1.0
R	Empowering VenomOff-GCD	0.4