Burning Soul

Mage · Fire · opens at 10 points spent · 3 ranks

Burning Soul works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.

Burning Soul ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Gives your Fire spells a 23% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage and reduces the threat caused by your Fire spells by 10%.
  2. Rank 2 Gives your Fire spells a 70% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage and reduces the threat caused by your Fire spells by 30%.
  3. Rank 3 Gives your Fire spells a 70% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage and reduces the threat caused by your Fire spells by 30%.

What Burning Soul does in Classic Era

Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side. It has 2 ranks in Classic Era rather than 3.

  1. Rank 1 Gives your Fire spells a 35% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage and reduces the threat caused by your Fire spells by 15%.

Where Burning Soul sits in the Fire tree

Burning Soul is a Fire talent for Mage. You need 10 points in Fire before the row it sits on opens.

How often people take Burning Soul

24 of the 114 public Mage builds saved here — 21% — put at least one point in Burning Soul. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

  • BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage