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Archmage
Metaclass	Mage
Locked	Yes
Starting Life	100
Life Rating	-4
Stat Modifiers
Strength	0
Dexterity	0
Constitution	0
Magic	+5
Willpower	+3
Cunning	+1

Locked Description

Hated, harrowed, hunted, hidden...

Our ways are forbidden, but our cause is just.

In our veiled valley we find solace from the world's wrath, free to study our arts.

Only through charity and friendship can you earn our trust.

Description

An Archmage devotes his whole life to the study of magic above anything else. Most Archmagi lack basic skills that others take for granted (like general fighting sense), but they make up for it by their raw magical power.

Archmagi start with knowledge of many schools of magic. However, they usually refuse to have anything to do with Necromancy.

Most Archmagi have been trained in the secret town of Angolwen and possess a unique spell to teleport to it directly. Their most important stats are: Magic and Willpower

Starting Equipment

Elm Staff
Linen Robe
Manasurge Rune

Starting Talents

Talent Categories

Type	Name	Mastery	Locked	Talents
Class
Spell	Arcane	1.3	No	Arcane Power	Manathrust	Arcane Vortex	Disruption Shield
Spell	Fire	1.3	No	Flame	Flameshock	Fireflash	Inferno
Spell	Earth	1.3	No	Stone Skin	Pulverizing Auger	Mudslide	Stone Wall
Spell	Water	1.3	No	Glacial Vapour	Freeze	Tidal Wave	Shivgoroth Form
Spell	Air	1.3	No	Lightning	Chain Lightning	Feather Wind	Thunderstorm
Spell	Phantasm	1.3	No	Illuminate	Blur Sight	Phantasmal Shield	Invisibility
Spell	Aether	1.3	Yes	Aether Beam	Aether Breach	Aether Avatar	Pure Aether
Spell	Wildfire *	1.3	Yes	Blastwave	Burning Wake	Cleansing Flames	Wildfire
Spell	Stone *	1.3	Yes	Earthen Missiles	Body of Stone	Earthquake	Crystalline Focus
Spell	Ice *	1.3	Yes	Ice Shards	Frozen Ground	Shatter	Uttercold
Spell	Storm *	1.3	Yes	Nova	Shock	Hurricane	Tempest
Spell	Meta	1.3	Yes	Disperse Magic	Spellcraft	Quicken Spells	Metaflow
Spell	Temporal	1.3	Yes	Congeal Time	Time Shield	Time Prison	Essence of Speed
Generic
Type	Name	Mastery	Locked	Talents
Spell	Conveyance	1.3	No	Phase Door	Teleport	Displacement Shield	Probability Travel
Spell	Divination	1.3	No	Arcane Eye	Keen Senses	Vision	Premonition
Spell	Aegis	1.3	No	Arcane Reconstruction	Shielding	Arcane Shield	Aegis
Cunning	Survival	0.9	Yes	Heightened Senses	Charm Mastery	Piercing Sight	Evasion

(*) Requires achievement

Strategy

For the comprehensive guide to Wildfire Archmage, see this forum topic: http://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=42019

A general shell for any race or element of Archmage should be similar to the above build, but without the expenditure in Fire or Wildfire, reprinted here as follows:

Spell/Arcane: 1/1/1/4

Disruption Shield, while tedious, provides an incredible amount of shielding with correct use and allows Archmage to survive sudden unexpected damage without your other shields up.

Spell/Earth: 1/1/1/4

Stone Wall allows you to isolate yourself, a problem enemy, or to block off sight or passages.

Spell/Meta: 3/1/5/4

Disperse Magic allows you to get rid of powerful and annoying sustains on opponents; Quicken Spells lowers the CD on your important utility spells; Metaflow allows you to just reset their cooldowns, all very strong.

Spell/Temporal: 1/5/1/5

The category that should probably be your first unlock. Time Shield is an instant, high strength, long duration shield; Time Prison allows you to wait out unexpected explosions from your Disruption Shield and save escorts; Essence of Time is global speed, though it's best saved for near the end of the game when the very high sustain is more manageable.

Technique / Combat Training: 0/1/0/0

Spell/Conveyance: 4/4/0/0

Level 4 is both when Phase Door and Teleport allow you to choose where you want to land

Spell/Divination: 4/3/1/0

Arcane eye and Vision allow you to know what's coming and Keen senses allows you to see invisible and stealthed enemies and gives you more crit chance.

Spell/Aegis: 4/5/2/4

Is your bread and butter way to survive - Arcane Reconstruction + Arcane Shield gives you large shields, Shielding makes your shields stronger, and aegis buffs already strong shields into unbreakable ones.

Classes

*Classes with a non-white background need to be unlocked or may have other requirements*
Classes
Warrior	Rogue	Mage	Afflicted	Defiler	Celestial	Wilder	Chronomancer	Psionic	Adventurer	Tinker	Demented
Bulwark	Rogue	Alchemist	Cursed	Reaver	Anorithil	Summoner	Paradox Mage	Mindslayer	Adventurer	Sawbutcher	Writhing One
Berserker	Shadowblade	Archmage	Doomed	Corruptor	Sun Paladin	Wyrmic	Temporal Warden	Solipsist	Wanderer	Gunslinger	Cultist of Entropy
Archer	Marauder	Necromancer		Doombringer		Stone Warden		Possessor		Psyshot
Arcane Blade	Skirmisher			Demonologist		Oozemancer				Annihilator
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 ==Strategy==
-===Mobility===
+===Strategy===
-:''Excerpts from very old notes (circa beta 13):''
+For the comprehensive guide to Wildfire Archmage, see this forum topic: http://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=42019
-IMHO [[Teleport (talent)|Teleport]] is not really that useful if you don't mess up severely. It teleports you a large range. Analogously to PD it will allow you to choose a target area and teleport others. However, the target area you can specify is huge! This reduces the use of TP to basically nil except absolute emergency "I gotta get out of this place - no matter where!" situations.
+A general shell for any race or element of Archmage should be similar to the above build, but without the expenditure in Fire or Wildfire, reprinted here as follows:
-[[Phase door (talent)|Phase Door]] at level 4/5 or 5/5 is absolutely necessary because its utility will not only save your butt several times but also allows for advanced tactics and can save the butt of others (e.g. [[escorts|escort quest]] if the guy goes suicidal again, phase door him behind you and seal the passage. That stops him from running in certain death). PD is a must have for any character that has access to the skill!
+Spell/Arcane: 1/1/1/4
-In beta 13, Phase Door was nerfed twice:
+Disruption Shield, while tedious, provides an incredible amount of shielding with correct use and allows Archmage to survive sudden unexpected damage without your other shields up.
-*If the target is not in line of sight there is a 35% chance that the spell fizzles.
-*The radius of the target area is now (7 - raw talent level), i.e., at least 2.
-PD is not anymore a safe escape spell, and the precision is lowered. The tactics mentioned above must be adapted to the new situation.
+Spell/Earth: 1/1/1/4
-[[Probability travel (talent)|Probability Travel]] in short just rocks. With it you can avoid hard situations, can get away quickly, can hop through obstacles that break LoS while a tough monster (e.g. a boss) has to walk around it etc etc. As a mage I usually try to get it as soon as possible. With my winner I started to keep it permanently active since level 18-19 - what meant that I had only ~100 maximum mana left in my manapool. That hurts but can be compensated with clever tactics - and PT allows you access to tons of clever tactics.
+Stone Wall allows you to isolate yourself, a problem enemy, or to block off sight or passages.
+Spell/Meta: 3/1/5/4
+Disperse Magic allows you to get rid of powerful and annoying sustains on opponents; Quicken Spells lowers the CD on your important utility spells; Metaflow allows you to just reset their cooldowns, all very strong.
+Spell/Temporal: 1/5/1/5
+The category that should probably be your first unlock. Time Shield is an instant, high strength, long duration shield; Time Prison allows you to wait out unexpected explosions from your Disruption Shield and save escorts; Essence of Time is global speed, though it's best saved for near the end of the game when the very high sustain is more manageable.
+Technique / Combat Training: 0/1/0/0
+Spell/Conveyance: 4/4/0/0
+Level 4 is both when Phase Door and Teleport allow you to choose where you want to land
+Spell/Divination: 4/3/1/0
+Arcane eye and Vision allow you to know what's coming and Keen senses allows you to see invisible and stealthed enemies and gives you more crit chance.
+Spell/Aegis: 4/5/2/4
+Is your bread and butter way to survive - Arcane Reconstruction + Arcane Shield gives you large shields, Shielding makes your shields stronger, and aegis buffs already strong shields into unbreakable ones.
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