Fire Mage endgame PvE build (20/31/0)

How to play it

• Scorch to 5 stacks, Fireball with Accelerant, Fire Blast on cooldown; Heating Up shortens Pyroblast after crits. Fire Power scales with how many of your Fire effects are on the target: Ignite, Scorch vulnerability, Pyroblast dot.
• Combustion into Pyroblast is the opener; Blast Wave for groups.

Talents taken

Arcane (20)

• Improved Channeling 2/5: Gives your Arcane Missiles spell a 40% chance and your Arcane Blast and Arcane Wrath spells a 28% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage.
• Arcane Resilience 3/3: Increases your Armor by an amount equal to 75% of your Intellect.
• Arcane Subtlety 2/2: Reduces your target's resistance to all your spells by 15 and reduces the threat caused by your Arcane spells by 30%.
• Magic Absorption 2/2: Increases all your resistances by 10 and causes all spells you fully resist to restore 2% of your total mana. Cannot trigger more often than 1 time per sec.
• Arcane Concentration 5/5: Gives you a 10% chance of entering a Clearcasting state after any damage spell hits a target. The Clearcasting state reduces the mana cost of your next damage spell by 100%.
• Arcane Impact 3/3: Increases the critical strike chance of your Arcane spells by 6%.
• Arcane Meditation 3/3: Allows 50% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.

Fire (31)

• Incineration 3/5: Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire Blast, Ice Lance, Arcane Blast, and Scorch spells by 6%.
• Accelerant 5/5: Reduces the casting time of your Fireball, Frostfire Bolt, and Arcane Wrath spells by 0.5 sec.
• Ignite 5/5: Your critical strikes from Fire damage spells cause the target to burn for an additional 40% of your spell's damage over 4 sec.
• Burning Soul 2/3: Gives your Fire spells a 47% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage and reduces the threat caused by your Fire spells by 20%.
• Pyroblast 1/1: Hurls an immense fiery boulder that causes 101 to 131 Fire damage and an additional 44 Fire damage over 12 sec.
• Improved Scorch 3/3: Your Scorch spell has a 100% chance to cause your target to be vulnerable to Fire damage. This vulnerability increases all Fire damage you deal to your target by 3% and lasts 30 sec, stacking up to 5 times.
• Heating Up 1/1: Non-periodic critical strikes with Fireball, Frostfire Bolt, Fire Blast, and Scorch reduce the cast time of your next Pyroblast cast within 20 sec by 25%, stacking up to 3 times. Fire Blast grants an additional stack every time it deals damage.
• Master of Elements 3/3: Your Fire and Frost critical strikes will refund 30% of their base mana cost.
• Critical Mass 3/3: Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire spells by 6%.
• Blast Wave 1/1: A wave of flame radiates outward from the caster, damaging all enemies caught within the blast for 154 to 184 Fire damage, and Dazing them for 50% reduced movement speed for 6 sec.
• Fire Power 3/3: Increases the damage done by your Fire spells by 3% per your Fire effects on the target, up to a maximum increase of 12%. Effects which mix multiple schools of magic do not qualify.
• Combustion 1/1: When activated, this spell causes each of your Fire damage spell hits to increase your critical strike chance with Fire damage spells by 10%. This effect lasts until you have caused 3 non-periodic critical strikes with Fire spells.

Point order by level

First point at level 10 (set the Talented perk in the calculator if you start earlier).