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Wake of Fire, a Fire Mage talent in WoW Forever

Wake of Fire 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 2 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era. It was called Improved Fire Blast in Classic.

Wake of Fire

2 ranks

Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 1 sec. Killing a non-trivial target increases the critical strike chance of your next Fire Blast cast within 30 sec by 25%.

Every rank of Wake of Fire

RankText
Rank 1Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 1 sec. Killing a non-trivial target increases the critical strike chance of your next Fire Blast cast within 30 sec by 25%.
Rank 2Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 2 sec. Killing a non-trivial target increases the critical strike chance of your next Fire Blast cast within 30 sec by 50%.

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 Wake of Fire.

Compared with Classic Era

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

Name

Classic Era

Improved Fire Blast

WoW Forever

Wake of Fire

Position

Classic Era

Fire, row 2, column 3

WoW Forever

Fire, row 1, column 1

Ranks

Classic Era

3 ranks

WoW Forever

2 ranks

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 0.5 sec.

WoW Forever

Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Blast spell by 1 sec. Killing a non-trivial target increases the critical strike chance of your next Fire Blast cast within 30 sec by 25%.

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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.