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.