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Spell glossary: Mage

The spells and talents of a sustained single-target Mage rotation at level 20, with their real values sourced from WoW: Forever's own Wowhead tooltips.

Abilities

Ability	Required level	Cost	Cooldown	Cast	Effect	Source
Fireball	18	95 Mana	None	3 sec	67-90 (+86% SP) 12 / 8s (3/tick)	Wowhead tooltip
Fire Blast	14	75 Mana	8s	Instant	57-69 (+43% SP)	Wowhead tooltip
Pyroblast	20	125 Mana	None	6 sec	101-131 44 / 12s (12/tick)	Wowhead tooltip

Talents

Ability	Tree	Max rank	Effect	DPS relevant?
Wake of Fire	Fire	2	Reduces Fire Blast cooldown by 1 sec/rank (2s at max); killing a non-trivial enemy grants +25%/rank crit chance (50% at max) to your next Fire Blast within 20 sec	Yes
Incineration	Fire	3	—	Not checked
Improved Fireball	Fire	5	-0.2 sec Fireball/Frostfire Bolt cast time per rank (-1 sec at max rank, per the tooltip's own description text; the raw per-rank trait values shown, -100/-200ms, imply a smaller total and weren't fully reconciled -- description text used as authoritative per this project's standing rule)	Yes
Ignite	Fire	5	Fire spell crits cause the target to burn for +8%/rank of that spell's damage over 4 sec (24% at rank 3, 40% at max rank 5)	Yes
Flame Throwing	Fire	2	—	No
Impact	Fire	3	—	Not checked
Burning Soul	Fire	3	—	No
Improved Flamestrike	Fire	3	—	No
Pyroblast	Fire	1	—	Yes
Improved Scorch	Fire	3	—	Yes
Improved Fire Ward	Fire	2	—	No
Hot Streak	Fire	1	—	Yes
Master of Elements	Fire	3	—	No
Critical Mass	Fire	3	—	Yes
Blast Wave	Fire	1	—	No
Fire Power	Fire	5	—	Yes
Combustion	Fire	1	—	Yes

What's still missing

This class isn't complete yet: here's precisely what hasn't been sourced yet, rather than leaving it silent.

Only the Fire tree's single-target rotation pieces are covered (Fireball, Fire Blast, Pyroblast, Wake of Fire, Ignite, Improved Fireball). Utility/defensive/AoE spells named in Icy Veins' guide (Frostbolt, Polymorph, Counterspell, Frost Nova, Blast Wave, Arcane Explosion, Flamestrike, Scorch, Improved Scorch, armors, wards) are not looked up.
"talents.arcane" and "talents.frost" are empty placeholders -- the real level-20 build spends 0 points in either, but a Fire Mage could in principle spend leftover points there at a higher level.
Frostfire Bolt (replaces Fireball at level 40) not looked up -- out of scope for a level-20 model anyway.
Wand damage: Icy Veins repeatedly says wand damage is very strong at low levels and should be used over spells when mana-inefficient -- not sourced, and not modeled by anything in this project yet.
No real armor-mitigation-equivalent needed here (casters ignore armor), but spell resistance / partial resists on Fire damage against resistant targets isn't sourced either.

See also: the DPS simulator and character optimizer use this same data.

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