Combat-Mage Tips

[Laura]

I don’t play one myself, but there’s been a couple of threads recently…

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Battlemages

Fringe benefit: you’re fragile. You know you’re fragile. Thus, you avoid plugging gaps in shieldwalls during messy retreats because doing that is just a liability, so if you’re inclined to do that otherwise it can actually help you survive longer. Of my three fighty-type characters, the two armour-and-shield types died on their second battle; the battlemage survived like two years until I retired him for unrelated reasons. (Now on shield-user take three. It’ll be interesting to see if the patt…

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Advice for a new Battle Mage?

So my new character will be a battle mage with at least half their points . Does anyone have any advice on good tactics to use, useful equipment and anything else I should know? I’m thinking of holding a point over and then picking up shield after E3. Alternatively is using a staff decent? I’m afraid I’m going to feel a bit naked without full plate .

Any use?