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Fire Mage First Impressions: Sunfury Hero Talents
Sunfury is now playable on The War Within Alpha. This is the shared Hero talent for Fire and Arcane Mages.
What is Sunfury?
Sunfury is the last hero talent revealed for Mage, and arguably the most exciting. No NPC embodies the concept of Sunfury more than Kael'thas Sunstrider and his followers. Prince Kael'thas is heavily associated with the Phoenix, a mythological firebird with the power of Rebirth. Every time we strike him down he somehow comes back into the story.
This «Hero Spec» revolves around generating Spellfire Spheres and summoning an Arcane Phoenix to consume these spheres to deal incredible amounts of damage with powerful Arcane and Fire spells. It also empowers Phoenix Flames to call down storms of Meteorites, and has access to a stun with Gravity Lapse. Sunfury adds an incredible amount of burst to Fire Mage and helps move it away from being an uptime spec with a flat damage profile. Sunfury also adds a lot of visual flavor to Mage.
Core Components
Spellfire Spheres
Spellfire Spheres is the first node in the Sunfury Hero Talent tree. Spellfire Spheres are passively conjured out of combat, but can also be generated by consuming Hot Streak. The animation for Spellfire Spheres can be seen below:
Spellfire Spheres contain elements of Fire and Arcane in their models while they slowly oscillate.
Arcane Phoenix
The Spellfire Spheres look incredible, but they look even cooler when the Arcane Phoenix is consuming them to unleash a barrage of flashy spells. This is possible once we unlock our next talent. Invocation: Arcane Phoenix causes Combustion to summon our new best friend, the Arcane Phoenix. This little bird packs a punch!
The spells cast by the Arcane Phoenix are mostly random, but there is a little logic to them. There are two tiers of spells cast by the
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