WoW Forever Mage Talents Guide
Mages keep all three colors of the same job and Forever adds Incineration as an early universal crit node. Fire bursts with Combustion, Frost controls with Ice Barrier and Winter's Chill, Arcane dumps mana through Arcane Power.
Mage Arcane tree in Forever
Arcane Power and Arcane Instability stack burst on burst, and Arcane Mind scales your mana pool into crit. Presence of Mind still enables the classic PoM-pyro opener people never stopped loving.
Arcane Power1 rank
Arcane Instability3 ranks
Mage Fire tree in Forever
Combustion at 30 points plus Fire Power for raw output. Incineration is a new early crit node that benefits every school, and Blast Wave keeps its AoE punch. Ignite still rewards stacked crit on long fights.
Combustion1 rank
Fire Power3 ranks
Mage Frost tree in Forever
Ice Barrier and Winter's Chill anchor the control tree, with Fingers of Frost feeding Shatter combos. This is still the safest leveling spec in the game: things die slowly and never reach you.
Ice Barrier1 rank
Winter's Chill5 ranks
What Forever changes for Mage
Incineration is a new school-agnostic crit node available to every Mage early in Fire.