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Ignite, a Fire Mage talent in WoW Forever

Ignite is a passive talent in row 2 of the Fire tree. It needs 5 points in Fire, so the earliest you can take it is level 15 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 5 ranks. It is the same as in Classic Era.

Ignite

5 ranks

  • Requires 5 points in Fire

Your critical strikes from Fire damage spells cause the target to burn for an additional 8% of your spell's damage over 4 sec.

Every rank of Ignite

RankText
Rank 1Your critical strikes from Fire damage spells cause the target to burn for an additional 8% of your spell's damage over 4 sec.
Rank 2Your critical strikes from Fire damage spells cause the target to burn for an additional 16% of your spell's damage over 4 sec.
Rank 3Your critical strikes from Fire damage spells cause the target to burn for an additional 24% of your spell's damage over 4 sec.
Rank 4Your critical strikes from Fire damage spells cause the target to burn for an additional 32% of your spell's damage over 4 sec.
Rank 5Your critical strikes from Fire damage spells cause the target to burn for an additional 40% of your spell's damage over 4 sec.

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 1)
Row below (row 3)

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

Compared with Classic Era

Ignite is the same as in Classic Era.

It sits in the same place, has the same number of ranks and has the same rank 1 text.

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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.