Mage

Mage is the first class to unlock in the game. It is a very powerful class, that specialize in dealing damage and gaining experience. The skills for mage is providing the class with a bunch of utility while also gaining more damage. This makes it obvious for mage to upgrade the wisdom attribute a lot.

## Abilities and weapons

Mage has 2 abilities and 1 weapon. The only weapon is the basic sword, and the two skills are crystal staff and intellect. Crystal staff deals 4 damage + 1 for every level, meaning that it deals 5 damage in level 1 and 14 in level 10. This is a very useful ability, since it allows you to deal damage to the enemy, without taking any damage yourself. The second skill intellect grants experience based on your current lelel. This is another very useful skill, as it allows the mage to level up much faster than it would normally take.

Often the choice is whether to save the mana in order to kill monsters with the crystal staff, or to use the mana to level up. Often, it is a good idea to level up early, but running out of mana can be dangerous, as it can result in not being able to kill certain monsters, and therefore losing loot, or even not being able to survive a boss. The solution is therefore often to use the mana to level up, if the player has enough health to survive the following monsters.

## Skills

Like all other classes, mage has 3 skills. These skills are teleport, potent magic and ethos. Teleport is the first skill, and when activated, it bring the player directly to the shop. This might immediately seem very good and even over powered, as you can skip directly to the final boss without killing any monsters. This is however not the best idea, since skipping the areas of the game will not provide you any loot such as experience or gold, which will make the player very weak against the final boss. Therefore, the best use is to skip the bosses at the end of each area, as these does not provide any loot anyways. Another use is to skip area 3 or the last part of it, as this area is very tough, and in some cases can leave the player worse of after the area, than before the area starts, since the skulls has negative loot.

Potent magic will amplify the damage of the crystal staff, by making the wisdom attribute deal an extra +2 damage when using crystal staff. This skill also costs 2 points in wisdom to unlock. This skill is very powerful, and can make the crystal staff deal huge amounts of damage. The last skill is ethos, and is also the cheapest skill only requiring 1 point in charisma. This will make all spellbooks 15 gold cheaper, which allows mage to get many good items for a lot less gold.

## Strategy

Since mage both has access to damage and experience, the primary goal of mage is to level up as much as possible during the game, by getting a ton of mana. Leveling up upgrades the crystal staff ability, which is the primary source of damage, and also the ability that should be used the most when fighting the final boss.

### Overall strategy

In the early game, leveling up is the primary point of focus. In the first areas, this is primarily done by killing monsters. The crystal staff should be utilized here, since it allows to deal damage without the class takes any damage. This is very effective against monsters with high attack such as the evil goat or stone golem, that otherwise are difficult monsters to kill. It can be a good idea not to use the crystal staff against monsters with low attack, but instead save it for these monsters.

In the later game, intellect becomes gradually stronger and stronger, since the experience gained from this ability gets higher and higher depending on the player level. It should therefore be prioritized to use this ability in this stage of the game.

When reaching the final boss, the mage should have gained a lot of mana and level, so that the boss almost entirely can be killed by using the crystal staff. Since mage only has a singe basic sword, using melee attacks to kill the boss is seldom desired.

### Skills and attributes

Since mage is going to be using the abilities often, taking a lot of points in the wisdom attribute seems to be favorable, since it will increase the damage on crystal staff, but also allow the intellect ability to deal damage. This will also unlock potent magic, which is a very important skill to unlock, in order to deal the most damage.