Instant · 3 min cooldown
Combustion ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 When activated, this spell causes each of your Fire damage spell hits to increase your critical strike chance with Fire damage spells by 10%. This effect lasts until you have caused 4 non-periodic critical strikes with Fire spells.
What Combustion 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.
- Rank 1 When activated, this spell causes each of your Fire damage spell hits to increase your critical strike chance with Fire damage spells by 10%. This effect lasts until you have caused 3 critical strikes with Fire spells.
Where Combustion sits in the Fire tree
Combustion is a Fire talent for Mage. You need 30 points in Fire before the row it sits on opens. It also requires Critical Mass first.
- Requires: Critical Mass
How often people take Combustion
23 of the 114 public Mage builds saved here — 20% — put at least one point in Combustion. 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