Any guesses or preferences for the remaining classes in the Mage Archetype?

crimsonmid

What classes would you like to see in the Mage Archetype apart from the Elementalist, Warlock and the Pyromancer? I was recently playing Allods Online and i really liked the Psionicist mechanics.

A melee mage like the HoX from AoC would also be interesting to see.

Whats your preference-guess?

sloeber

some sort of a melee battle mage would be cool imo.

arieste

I never play mages, so a completely un-biased opinion:

 

I'd bet good money that one is a Necro.  The devs have been very clearly looking at popular classes both in their own previous games and around other games.  Necro is a staple of the genre, so I'd expect it.  Plus, the tie to the plane of death is obvoius.

 

Given the massive popularity of the HoX class from AoC as one of the greatest classes in any game, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a melee mage.  Expect a new name for this class that speaks to it's calling, it might even be as simple as "Battlemage".

 

I'd also expect a support / crowd-control class like Enchanter and a very traditional Wizard-type nuker with large single-target spells. 

So that's

Necro

Battlemage

Enchanter

Wizard

? - probably some kind of hybrid class, possibly with drains or heals (Bloodmage-type class would be awesome).

 

Those are my guesses anyway.

Silverthorn8

Illusionist (use of  mind boggling distractions, mirror images etc)

Demonologist (summoner version of warlock - bit like wow's version)

Necromancer

Spellsword (caster that melee's with magically summoned weapons (preferably lightsabers :P), uses heavy magical barrier type shields)

Frost wizard - counterpart to pyromancer

charlionfire

New info from PAX indicates:

-Storm Caller, some sort of ice mage.

-A nameless healing mage.