Battlemage

Battlemage is the last weapon class in the game, which can easily be seen, since it has 4 weapons as the only class in the game, and it makes the battlemage the master of melee fighting! Battlemage costs 180  to unlock.

## Abilities and weapons

Battlemage has 4 weapons, which separates this class from all other classes, since the other classes only has 3 either abilities or weapons at their disposal, and a maximum of 2 melee weapons, which also makes battlemage differ from the other weapon-classes. The 4 weapons are the basic sword, nature blade, fire blade and mana blade. It is debatable whether the mana blade is a melee weapon or an ability, since it requires mana in order to be used, but have its damage increased by other items that increases attacks on melee weapons, such as upgrade-hammer. It is however also affected from the wisdom attribute, which only works on abilities.

Another big difference between battlemage and all other classes, is that battlemage has to unlock the weapons before they can be used (except for the basic sword). This adds another layer of strategy, since the player has to decide which weapon to upgrade in what order. Upgrading weapons is done by leveling up, and the player start by being able to upgrade 1 weapon. This means that all weapons can be upgraded in level 3.

The 3 weapons work great together, and all weapons combined are necessary for a successful battlemage run. Nature blade allows battlemage to heal, but it has a very low attack. Fire blade can deal a lot of damage, but only when the health of the enemy monster is high, and mana blade allows battlemage to deal a very high amount of damage, when a lot of mana is accumulated. The traditional combination of weapons is to first use fire blade to deal the most damage, then use the basic sword or mana blade to deal some more damage, and end the monster of by using the nature blade.

## Skills

The 3 skills are Enchantment: grass, enchantment: flames and enchantment: ice, and they are each upgrading their respective battlemage weapon. The grass enchantment upgrades nature blade, the flames upgrade the fire blade, and the ice upgrades the mana blade. Each of the skills improves the damage of the weapons, however the enchantment: ice only gives you a chance to gain more mana, but since the more mana means more damage, the skill will indirectly make the weapon deal more damage.

All of the skills requires 1 point of charisma + 1 point of another attribute to unlock. Grass requires the luck attribute, flames requires the strength attribute and ice requires the wisdom attribute. All skills can therefore be unlocked by having one point in each attribute.

## Strategy

There are a lot of things to consider when playing battlemage, that allows for many different strategies. The main problem with battlemage however, is that it can not deal damage, without also taking damage itself (battlemage only has melee weapons). This makes health a scarce resource, which is why saving health is very important. Mana blade will be the primary source of damage against the final boss, which means that a lot of mana is required to defeat the final boss.

### Overall strategy

One of battlemage's greatest weaknesses, is the early game. The first area is going to very tough to battlemage, since it has no access to damage from abilities or healing. Surviving this area is one of the greatest challenges when playing battlemage. This means, that the battlemage should only be killing monsters that are absolutely necessary to kill, which are monsters that provides health and EXP. Fortunately, there are some monsters that are easier to kill, if the player has unlocked the fire blade as the first weapon. These are monsters like goat and stone golem, which both have a high health. Thanks to fire blade, battlemage is good at dealing with monsters that has a high health.

Once the battlemage reaches level 3, the battlemage should begin to really utilize the nature blade, since its healing really becomes effective at this stage. The battlemage player should always aim to kill the monsters with the nature blade, since this is a great way for battlemage to heal back up, which is important when you only have melee weapons.

Throughout the game, the battlemage should try and collect as much mana as possible, as this will make the mana blade deal a lot more damage. The player should only use mana when necessary, in order to keep the mana level as high as possible. This will make killing powerful monsters like the blob and other bosses a lot easier, since it often is possible to one-shot these monsters, if the player has enough mana. This is also going to be very useful against the final boss, since the fire blade (unfortunately) can not be used against this boss.

### Skills and attributes

The earlier the battlemage can unlock all skills the better, since the skills to battlemage has a huge impact on the game. Unlocking the enchantment: grass as the first skill can be very useful, since it makes it a lot easier to kill of monsters when the weapon has 2 attack instead of 1. The second skill to unlock depends on the playstyle on the player, and how much the player likes to use the mana blade. If the mana blade is being used a lot, it might be a good idea to unlock the enchantment: ice early, since it will save you a lot of mana. Otherwise this skill could be upgraded last.

The best attribute to get many points of is wisdom, since it will make the mana blade deal a lot more damage.

### Items

Since battlemage likes to have a lot of mana, items that gain mana are very good. This is items like sapphire, mana potion and mana siphon. Items that makes killing monsters easier by dealing damage to the are also very good, such as rifle and fire charge, though it should be noticed, that earth spike is not as good as it might seem, since battlemage likes to last-hit monsters with the nature blade as much as possible, as this will increase the healing. Rifle is especially a good choice, since you can use this item to deal the remaining damage to the monster, until it has 1 or 2 health, where the monster can be killed with the nature blade, and thus heal.

## History

The battlemage has received some changes since the game initial release. Battlemage used to have a 5th weapon (thunder sword), which was removed from the game after skills and attributes were introduced. This weapon would deal extra damage against flying monsters.
The latest chance is the fire blade, which was changed from having 25% chance to annihilate the enemy, to instead deal 33% of the monsters current health as damage.