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Blast Wave, a Fire Mage talent in WoW Forever

Blast Wave is an active talent in row 5 of the Fire tree. It needs 20 points in Fire, so the earliest you can take it is level 30 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 1 rank. It has changed since Classic Era.

Blast Wave

1 rank

  • 215 Mana
  • Instant
  • 45 sec cooldown
  • Requires 20 points in Fire

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.

Every rank of Blast Wave

RankText
Rank 1A 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.

Where it sits in the Fire tree

Wake of FireIncinerationImproved FireballIgniteFlame ThrowingImpactBurning SoulImproved FlamestrikePyroblastImproved ScorchImproved Fire WardHeating UpMaster of ElementsCritical MassBlast WaveFire PowerCombustion
Needs
No prerequisite talent
Unlocks
No talent needs it
Same row
Row above (row 4)
Row below (row 6)

Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Blast Wave.

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text.

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

A wave of flame radiates outward from the caster, damaging all enemies caught within the blast for 160 to 192 Fire damage, and dazing them for 6 sec.

WoW Forever

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.

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All Fire talents

  1. Wake of Fire
  2. Incineration
  3. Improved Fireball
  4. Ignite
  5. Flame Throwing
  6. Impact
  7. Burning Soul
  8. Improved Flamestrike
  9. Pyroblast
  10. Improved Scorch
  11. Improved Fire Ward
  12. Heating Up
  13. Master of Elements
  14. Critical Mass
  15. Blast Wave
  16. Fire Power
  17. Combustion

The other Mage trees: Arcane and Frost. Everything that changed for the Mage since Classic is on the changes page.

Game data from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70291, as published by talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0) on 2026-10-08 and reformatted by us. Numbers can still change before launch.