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Mage · Fire · row 4

Heating Up

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Heating Up

Rank 1/1Fire

Requires 15 points in Fire Talents

Requires Pyroblast

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.

Every rank of Heating Up

Rank	Effect	Source
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.	client

Requirements and position

Tree: Fire, row 4, column 3. Needs 15 points in Fire first. The earliest you can finish all 1 rank is level 25 if you put every point into this tree.
Prerequisite: Pyroblast at 1/1.
Competes with: Improved Scorch, Improved Fire Ward, Master of Elements in the same row.

Classic comparison

Heating Up is new in WoW Forever. Nothing in Classic 1.12 does this for Mages.

Spells this talent affects

Fire Blast · 7 ranks, learned at 6
Fireball · 12 ranks, learned at 1
Frostfire Bolt · 3 ranks, learned at 40
Pyroblast · 8 ranks, learned at 20
Scorch · 7 ranks, learned at 22

Builds that take Heating Up

Fire Mage endgame PvE build (20/31/0) · 1/1

Questions players ask

Where is Heating Up in the Mage talent tree?

Fire tree, row 4, column 3. You need 15 points spent in Fire before you can learn it, and Pyroblast must be at full rank first.

Is Heating Up new in WoW Forever?

Yes. Heating Up has no Classic 1.12 counterpart.

Snapshot 2026-11-03, client 1.60.1.70753.