Mage

The best area damage, but it no longer farms the world like before.

Damage

A

For levelling

Levelling

It still has the best area damage in the game and lots of control, but Blizzard and Permafrost were reduced and dungeons give less experience per mob. In the hands of a good player it is still one of the strongest classes.

Strengths

Best area damage (Arcane Explosion, Blizzard)
Blink, Ice Block and lots of control
Food, water, portals and teleports

Weaknesses

Weaker open-world area farming
Depends on mana
Fragile if not Frost

The three talent trees

Arcane
Damage
Fire
Damage
Frost
Damage
Best for levelling (in the beta)

Talent trees

The class's three trees as they are in the game: each row unlocks after spending 5 points in the tree, and the number in the corner is the talent's maximum rank.

Arcane

2

5

5

2

5

5

2

3

1

2

2

3

1

5

3

1

Fire

5

5

5

2

3

2

3

1

2

3

2

3

3

1

5

1

Frost

2

5

3

5

3

2

3

3

1

3

2

3

5

1

3

5

1

Talent builds

This class's talent builds arrive with the launch, once the trees are final.

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