Black Mage is viable?

[Lord Commander Dante]

I wanted to know if pure caster is a thing in this game and how strong is it to go black mage and nuke s*** from afar?
Or spells are just something you shove in between melee attacks ?

[Hanzo]

Mages are powerful. But to get MP in the game start you need to hit enemies. If you have DLC and get some gun, you could shoot from afar and then use magic. So it could be pretty much doable with long range. Don't forget, when you play you use 2 jobs in battle, which you could switch. Each job has their skills, passives, equipment. So you could use magic and then quickly switch job mid battle to hit enemy with axe, katana or spear. So switching jobs gives you better control on situation and gives you more options to defeat enemies

[Lord Commander Dante]

Originally posted by Hanzo:

Mages are powerful. But to get MP in the game start you need to hit enemies. If you have DLC and get some gun, you could shoot from afar and then use magic. So it could be pretty much doable with long range. Don't forget, when you play you use 2 jobs in battle, which you could switch. Each job has their skills, passives, equipment. So you could use magic and then quickly switch job mid battle to hit enemy with axe, katana or spear. So switching jobs gives you better control on situation and gives you more options to defeat enemies

thanks alot for the information :)

[F[K]ilm[ill] the moment]

You can customize any class to be powerful after the main story. But the game is easy anyway, so you can win even by being a white mage.

[Katitoff]

Casters are very strong and it is perfectly viable build.
I personally went furthest with my white mage(not for buffs, for damage).

In campaign your main ways to recover mana is through melee and soul shielding, but eventually you will be able to build affinities and command abilities, which grant you mana on potion, passive mana regen at full health(or at the cost of mana bar for X time) and mana back when you hit a weakness.

At the later end game(rift) you can go pure caster, spamming spells and never running out.

[⭕TheSodaman]

Originally posted by Lord Commander Dante:

I wanted to know if pure caster is a thing in this game and how strong is it to go black mage and nuke s*** from afar?
Or spells are just something you shove in between melee attacks ?

First playthrough, a little slower without the DLC weapon for gun or aggressive soul shielding.

Post-game and into the DLC onward, options become available to have more aggression, higher risk-reward, and/or more sustainability.

Example of a super glass cannon, high risk-reward route at endgame using Black Mage (it could have been any of its spells, but what I felt like at the time I recorded. Ignore the narration, clipped it out of a longer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIBLFbzhEPY