Trial by Fire
Shaman · Elemental Combat · opens at 15 points spent · 2 ranks
Trial by Fire works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Trial by Fire ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases the damage done by your Fire Nova spell by 10% and reduces its cooldown by 2 sec, and increases the duration of your Magma Totem by 10 sec.
- Rank 2 Increases the damage done by your Fire Nova spell by 20% and reduces its cooldown by 4 sec, and increases the duration of your Magma Totem by 20 sec.
What Trial by 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. In Classic Era it is called Improved Fire Totems.
- Rank 1 Reduces the delay before your Fire Nova Totem activates by 1 sec. and decreases the threat generated by your Magma Totem by 25%.
- Rank 2 Reduces the delay before your Fire Nova Totem activates by 2 sec. and decreases the threat generated by your Magma Totem by 50%.
Where Trial by Fire sits in the Elemental Combat tree
Trial by Fire is a Elemental Combat talent for Shaman. You need 15 points in Elemental Combat before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Eye of the Storm, Earthbound
How often people take Trial by Fire
22 of the 223 public Shaman builds saved here (10%) put at least one point in Trial by Fire. Counted across the 1500 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 Trial by Fire
One of the public Shaman builds written up here spends points on Trial by Fire.
- Shaman Enhancement 16/19/11 · 2/2 , 2 up
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- Forever client build 1.60.1.70532
- the beta client's hotfix cache, 22 October 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70450)