Where do battle mages stand?
The class battle mage has always intriqued but I haven't had the time to level one past the 80 dating back 2-3 years ago lol. How are battle mage's bossing potenial, like in high dps or low dps? How much dmg would I do with say 500k range? I noticed how they've been getting hit with small nerfs and all but I don't mind much. Their hyper BKB looks extremely cool
November 30, 2015
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they outstand pretty much on early game, leveling, survivability, basic bosses, etc.
for end game bossing theyre average, there are plenty jobs who can do better, however after all the nerfs many classes has been thru in kms everyone from the resistance seems to have become top tier choice as cost effective classes (less funds more damage), hps pretty decent too
only cons is, as many mentioned, bossing requires much more skill than any other class (not rly too hard, just too much for the meta of this game)
Think Hero with mage properties and you're not far off.
High amount of dps with telecasting (dark shock teleport+ FB)
Takes alot to cap on mobs, about 2m-2m + 200%boss to cap on bosses. Currently ~3m clean and hit about 30m on mobs.
Overall, above average mage class with high sustain and tankiness. However, it needs a high degree of control to play this character well. I don't really know why battle mages are being nerfed, they aren't over powered persay, but they are strong if you know what you are doing.
Extremely high potential.
Not hard to fund: int gear is second cheapest (not including HP). That may change after kinesis initial bandwagon.
Requires a very high degree of control to reach the top DPS, though. Telecasting is essential. Without it, we're very mediocre.
A 500k range would be like... iunno 10m on normal bosses? maybe like 8-9m lines instead? I have a 1.2m range and I do just under 25m lines on regular bosses. I have like 25x% boss and 89% pdr ignore (90% with FB).
We have very high HP and defense. We play similar to a shad combined with aran with teleport thrown in.
We level pretty damn fast and are damned OP in 2nd and 3rd jobs. 4th job, we're either mediocre or great depending on your connection. More than half our DPS is from tele casting properly, so learn how to do it.
IMO, we're a fun decent overall class. We have good party support and good mobility.