Role

BattleMage Classes

The BattleMage role covers classes that fight in melee range but draw their damage from magic rather than a weapon swing. BattleMage itself opens fights with Leap and layers Unstable Magic into Arcane Onslaught, Necromancer raises Army of the Dead and detonates Dread Praetorian, and Reaper (which also carries the Skirmisher tag) turns Soul Feast life-drain into Blood Rend combos. All three are Magic or Hybrid damage classes that fight up close (melee or melee/range) instead of kiting, which is the opposite trade-off from a pure Mage.