The complete presentation of the Mage class on Last Epoch, with spells and masteries SpellBlade and Sorcerer!

The magician in a nutshell

As the name suggests, this class will be suitable for all spellcaster fans. You can decline it on the three available elements, Fire, Lightning and Ice. You can also choose a life or energy barrier version that will take the damage before your life. Two masteries are currently available, the Sorcerer version to specialize in spells and the Spell Blade version to orient it in melee with magic attacks.

Mage, Sorcerer, and Spellblade Passives

Here are the important points for the mage to consider:

1. Arcanist for intelligence bonus
2. the Barrier part if you play this version
3. crit chance and multiplier
4. the winter rune only if you play the Lightning Blast and Volcanic Orb spells

Here are the important points to consider for wizarding mastery:

1. the barrier and/or intelligence
2. the damage of your choice fire, lightning or ice
3. the upper part for the barrier and / or lower for the critical chance
4. choose the chances of shock, burn or freeze

Here are the important points to consider for the Spellblade mastery:

1. barrier and/or melee attack
2. the chances of burning, freezing or shock
3. being able to carry two swords if needed
4. lower melee damage, upper heal, and barrier gains as needed

Mage, Sorcerer and Spellblade skills

Basically with leveling you will have access to these skills:

• Lightning Blast: launches a ball of lightning
• Fireball: throws a fireball
• Snap Freeze: cone-shaped gel
• Elemental Nova: makes a nova of fire, lightning and ice around you
• Mana Strike: melee attack that restores mana
• Flame Ward: Gives barrier boost and reduces damage
• Teleport: teleports on your cursor
• Static: Charge a lightning attack by moving or taking damage

Spells to unlock from the mage branch:

• 5 - Glacier: creates three successive explosions of ice
• 10 - Desintegrate: channel a ray of lightning
• 15 - Volcanic Orb: launches a fire orb with projectiles
• 20 - Focus: channel your mana regeneration

Spells to unlock from the wizarding branch, the first with the choice of mastery:

• 0 - Meteor: drops a fire meteorite
• 5 - Static Orb: Launches a lightning orb that pulls enemies in and then explodes
• 15 - Ice Barrage: launches ice spikes
• 30 - Arcane Ascendancy: prevents you from moving while boosting your damage
• 40 - Black Hole: creates a black hole that attracts enemies by doing cold damage

Unlockable spells from the Spell Blade branch, the first with the choice of mastery:

• 0 - Shatter Strike: smack ice in a circle around you and kill frozen enemies with a certain level of life
• 5 - Flame Reave: melee attack that launches a cone of flame in front of you
• 15 - Enchant Weapon: Enchants your weapon to increase your elemental damage
• 30 - Firebrand: fire melee attack that stacks to deal more damage
• 40 - Surge: a dash that does lightning damage

Synergy with other classes

Even if the mage has all the advantages to be played solo, he also has many buffs that can be useful in a team:

• Lightning Blast, with the Closed Circuit node to boost allies' damage and critical chance
• Flame Ward, with the Selfless Sorcery node, allowing it to be used on allies
• Focus, with the Friendly Focus node to spread your buffs to allies
• Static Orb, with Charged Allies node, increase effect and shock chance

You can thus have a very good synergy:

• Lightning Blast with any critical damage based build, like the Rogue Bladedancer
• Flame Ward with any other build using Barrier
• Focus in priority with builds using a lot of mana
• Static Orb with other Lightning builds, e.g. Primalist Shaman