Improved Fire Blast, a WoW Forever Mage talent, in words

What it does Fire row 1

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  Improved Fire Blast2 ranks · passiveLevel 10.Rank 1: Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 1 sec and increases its range by 8 yards.Rank 2: Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 2 sec and increases its range by 15 yards.Changed from Classic (was Fire row 2, was 3 ranks, now 2). Classic rank 1: Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 0.5 sec.

What changed from Classic

• Classic rank 1Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 0.5 sec.
• WoW Forever rank 1Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 1 sec and increases its range by 8 yards.
• Alsowas Fire row 2; was 3 ranks, now 2.

Who takes it pick rates from this site's builds

• 44% of Mage buildsTaken in 44% of the 9,540 Mage builds with 41 or more points planned here, since the Oct 15 patch (build 70425).
• 38% of Arcane buildsTaken in 38% of the 3,010 builds that lead in Arcane.
• 70% of Fire buildsTaken in 70% of the 3,003 builds that lead in Fire, its own tree.
• 27% of Frost buildsTaken in 27% of the 3,527 builds that lead in Frost.
• How it is countedEach build counts once, the way the calculator's pick-rate badges count. Recounted a few times a day, last on 2026-10-19.

Beta build history

• Build 1.60.1.70425, 2026-10-15Improved Fire Blast is the new name of Wake of Fire. Blizzard: "Wake of Fire: Talent reverted back to Improved Fire Blast and no longer grants a bonus when the Mage kills a target. It also now increases the range of Fireblast by 8/15 yards." (notes for build 70425)
• Build 1.60.1.70425, 2026-10-15Ranks 1 and 2 text changed. Now: Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 1 sec and increases its range by 8 yards. Was: Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 1 sec. Blizzard: "Wake of Fire: Talent reverted back to Improved Fire Blast and no longer grants a bonus when the Mage kills a target. It also now increases the range of Fireblast by 8/15 yards." (notes for build 70425)
• Build 1.60.1.70009, 2026-09-24As Wake of Fire: Ranks 1 and 2 text changed. Blizzard: "Wake of Fire buff duration has been increased to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds)." (notes for build 70009)

Around it in the Fire tree

• Same row (level 10)Incineration, Improved Fireball.
• Row below (level 15)Ignite, Flame Throwing, Impact.

Every Fire talent 17

• Improved Fire Blastrow 1
• Incinerationrow 1
• Improved Fireballrow 1
• Igniterow 2
• Flame Throwingrow 2
• Impactrow 2
• Burning Soulrow 3
• Improved Flamestrikerow 3
• Pyroblastrow 3
• Improved Scorchrow 4
• Improved Fire Wardrow 4
• Heating Uprow 4
• Master of Elementsrow 4
• Critical Massrow 5
• Blast Waverow 5
• Fire Powerrow 6
• Combustionrow 7

The other two trees

• Arcane talents19
• Frost talents19