Wake of Fire

Mage · Fire · available from the first tier · 2 ranks

Wake of Fire works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.

Wake of Fire ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 1 sec. Killing a non-trivial target increases the critical strike chance of your next Fire Blast cast within 20 sec by 25%.
  2. Rank 2 Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 2 sec. Killing a non-trivial target increases the critical strike chance of your next Fire Blast cast within 20 sec by 50%.

What Wake of Fire does in Classic Era

Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side. It has 3 ranks in Classic Era rather than 2.

  1. Rank 1 Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 0.5 sec.
  2. Rank 2 Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 1 sec.

Where Wake of Fire sits in the Fire tree

Wake of Fire is a Fire talent for Mage. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away.

How often people take Wake of Fire

29 of the 109 public Mage builds saved here — 27% — put at least one point in Wake of Fire. Counted across the 1498 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.

Builds that take Wake of Fire

6 of the public Mage builds written up here spend points on Wake of Fire.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

  • Forever client build 1.60.1.69893