Welp after reading the forums a bit, i came across a build that was interesting to me. Apparently you can build a Magic Knight by going Wiz>Pyro>Linker>Thau>Chrono and using a Wizards blade.
I like to take screen shots of the skill calculator on the tosbase.com but im kinda having trouble with this one. Can anyone help me make a sort of battle mage? It don’t have to follow the above build. Really im going for a durable mage who can hold his own PVE.
First off, be aware that the build isn’t good. Mage has a slow auto attack speed, can’t crit, and it’s auto attack can only hit one target. These three things that are the foundation of the auto builds of the other classes.
That said, lets optimize.
One circle of pyromancer is required for Enchant Fire. There is a high level dagger that adds 150 fire damage. If you use enchant fire, that damage is added to your auto attacks. And you will be using daggers.
Linker is helpful for farming, but not for flat auto attack damage. The Joint Penalty skill will allow you to hit 5 targets at once with your auto attack. You mostly take this as nothing else at circle 3 is useful.
Thaumaturge is where all the real auto attack damage lies. Swell Right Arm, Swell Left Arm, and Swell Brain combine for a baffling +700 to magic attack, for your entire party. This, if nothing else, will make you useful to your group.
Chrono is currently a trap, I hear. Quicken is currently glitched, and either has no effect or has a massively reduced effect.
My personal plan is wiz-pyro-link-thuam3
Your auto-attacks will still be ranged magic and based off of matk. So a “Magic Knight” is currently not possible.
I have a feeling the Wizard’s Blade item is more appropriate for Cleric classes. Perhaps there will be a Mage class released later than can do physical damage, but for now if you are a Mage you are stuck doing ranged magic attacks.
Yah i been digging around as well. I never hear anything good about it so ill ditch that effort and save me some time to focus on my other builds. Time to wait for the next classes and see hahahaha
I thought 2 handed staves had a physical attack that you can use with them? Would that still be good for a battle mage?
maybe this vid will give u some enlightenment about how magic knight will work…
credit to youtube poster Gaming Meido
In the video dex outperforms the other stats.
Dmg would be fine with trinity sword + arde I guess and the right gems. I saw some full con or full spr pyromancers blasting through the content so going full dex wont be that much difficult either. The only rly thing you have to deal with is just the leveling path.
Cant go melee until rank 4 at least.
I would go wiz c1 > cyro c1 > linker or pyro c1> Thaum c2 > necro and use an karacha and a toy hammer. There is a vid somewhere showing icewall + toyhammer deleting a boss instantly. I guess toy hammer procs off any skill hit.
Eh, dex outperforms int in melee sure.
The issue here is that even with full dex, your c1 pyromancer skills are better damage.
No1 said that you will deal more dmg with full dex just with autoattacks compared to your spells.
I said at rank 4 is the melee swap. But after reaching the max for thauma buffs + attributes it will easily outperform.
But I wont play it anyway. As melee I eat so much dmg just from glitched attacks, without heals its just disgusting. Im playing right now a priest c2 > pally , aiming for monk and Im just autoattacking my way through the content pretty easy and when I imagine that thauma will give like tons of phys dmg for free … no need to explain that further more 
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All thaum buffs apply equally to magic attack. If you go C3 thaum you also get a buff for +145 int.
(I strongly suggest you take Krivis over Pally, if you’re a full dex Cleric. Diano is pretty required, as you already have more than 5 buffs you can cast, and Zalciai will increase your crit rate and crit damage by quite a lot.)
Personal preference here. Im full solo and never having a problem with buffs since Im using only sacrament+ blessing + monstrance. The crit dmg is nice to have but not required, the 9sec cooldown double usage smite is just too good.
At the right spot I can mob like 5 and instakill them 10 levels above me. Sorry for offtopic talk here.