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Incineration, a Fire Mage talent in WoW Forever

Incineration is a passive talent in row 1 of the Fire tree. It needs no points in Fire, so you can take it from level 10 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 3 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era. It was called Incinerate in Classic.

Incineration

3 ranks

Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire Blast, Ice Lance, Arcane Blast, and Scorch spells by 2%.

Every rank of Incineration

RankText
Rank 1Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire Blast, Ice Lance, Arcane Blast, and Scorch spells by 2%.
Rank 2Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire Blast, Ice Lance, Arcane Blast, and Scorch spells by 4%.
Rank 3Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire Blast, Ice Lance, Arcane Blast, and Scorch spells by 6%.

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
None: this is the first row
Row below (row 2)

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

Compared with Classic Era

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

Name

Classic Era

Incinerate

WoW Forever

Incineration

Position

Classic Era

Fire, row 3, column 1

WoW Forever

Fire, row 1, column 2

Ranks

Classic Era

2 ranks

WoW Forever

3 ranks

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire Blast and Scorch spells by 2%.

WoW Forever

Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire Blast, Ice Lance, Arcane Blast, and Scorch spells by 2%.

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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.