

Alternately you could avoid damage with the dash move, conveniently replacing the normal jump function on the space bar.

Both regular and area attacks can be charged for extra damage and critical hit effects, and the shield will either reduce damage or negate it entirely and let loose a counterattack based on the type of magic you’re using if you time the defense perfectly. The left mouse button shoots a projectile, hitting right and left mouse buttons (or tab) produces a target on the ground that you can position anywhere you can see to rain down an area of effect spell, and the right mouse button by itself works the shield. Lichdom: Battlemage is an action FPS that replaces weapons with magic, and the initial fire element is great for dealing damage, but how you deal damage is more important than simply tossing off spells. You need to learn the basics to get to tactics, however. Magic is big and tricky, but once you learn how one effect feeds into another there’s a world of tactics available. There’s an army of the undead between your chosen character and their revenge, and surviving to get past their personal concerns and eventually save the world is going to take more than fireballs. He gives you some magic bracers, a few basic instructions, and then points you at the bad guy to learn as you go. You choose between a male or female character and promptly get cut down to size by an enemy who stomps the city flat, but the combination of magic potential and a thirst for revenge is too tempting for the mysterious Roth to pass up. Just because a battlemage doesn’t fall down in a handful of hits is no reason to abandon fighting smart and learning complex systems of spell crafting.Īt the start, though, you know nothing. Lichdom: Battlemage does away with the glass cannon aspect of the mage and turns it into a devastating force of unbridled power that tears through fights like an elemental-infused cuisinart, shooting bolts, raining down death, and charging up massive strikes against enemies that are more than capable of working together to hold their own in the face of what should be overwhelming force. Not just in terms of coming up with working strategies for a character class that usually epitomizes the glass cannon cliche, but also in figuring out how to best combine spells for maximized effect. If you’re going to play with magic you need to be smart.
