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Burning Soul, a Fire Mage talent in WoW Forever

Burning Soul is a passive talent in row 3 of the Fire tree. It needs 10 points in Fire, so the earliest you can take it is level 20 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 3 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era.

Burning Soul

3 ranks

  • Requires 10 points in Fire

Gives your Fire spells a 23% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage and reduces the threat caused by your Fire spells by 10%.

Every rank of Burning Soul

RankText
Rank 1Gives your Fire spells a 23% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage and reduces the threat caused by your Fire spells by 10%.
Rank 2Gives 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%.
Rank 3Gives your Fire spells a 70% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage and reduces the threat caused by your Fire spells by 30%.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

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 2)
Row below (row 4)

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

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text, its position and its rank count.

Position

Classic Era

Fire, row 3, column 4

WoW Forever

Fire, row 3, column 1

Ranks

Classic Era

2 ranks

WoW Forever

3 ranks

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Gives your Fire spells a 35% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage and reduces the threat caused by your Fire spells by 15%.

WoW Forever

Gives your Fire spells a 23% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage and reduces the threat caused by your Fire spells by 10%.

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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.