Battle Mage is a unique class that combines magic with melee combat. They’re great at mobbing, crazy mobility, and access to different Auras which can really help in party bosses. Battle Mages also have a reaper helping them out and really flashy skills that look great. Great class to make and try out.
Battle Mage’s most important skills are Finishing Blow and Teleport + Dark Shock. Once you hit 5th job your mobbing ability skyrockets with the use of Altar and Aura Scythe. Make sure to keep your teleport key on something you can click easily since you’ll be using it a lot.
Battle Mage 1st Job Skill Build
For your first job you’ll want to toggle on Condemnation and rely on Triple Blow to mob.
- Condemnation (auto-maxed)
- Triple Blow (+1), Hasty Aura (+1), Combat Teleport (+1), Staff Artist (+1)
- Combat Teleport (MAX)
- Hasty Aura (MAX)
- Staff Artist (MAX)
- Triple Blow (MAX)
Battle Mage 1st Job Skill Explanation
| Skill Name | Max Lv Description | Purpose |
 Triple Blow | MP Cost: 20, Damage: 170%, Max Attacks: 3, Max Monsters Hit: 5 | Mobbing Skill |
 Combat Teleport | MP Cost: 20, Horizontal range: 210, Vertical range: 290 | Mobility Skill |
 Hasty Aura | MP Cost per sec: 8, Speed: +10, Attack Speed +1 level Cooldown: 3 sec Passive Effect: Speed: 30, Max Speed: 20, Jump: 20, Attack Speed +2 levels, Avoidability: +15% | Party + Self Buff for Attack Speed (main aura to use if you can OHKO when mobbing) |
 Condemnation | After defeating 10 enemies, inflicts damage to 7 enemies on your next attack Damage: 185 + (1% x Character Level), Number of Attacks: 7. Attacking a boss 2 times will count as defeating 1 enemy Once activated, it cannot activate again until 9 sec have passed | Passive Effect to help with mobbing |
 Staff Artist | Magic ATT: +20, Critical Rate: +15%, DEF: +150 | Passive Buff |
Battle Mage 2nd Job Skill Build
The 2nd Job is where you’ll have access to some more buffs and Dark Chain which pulls in enemies for you to hit. Stick to Hasty Aura unless you really need the HP recovery.
- Grim Contract (auto-maxed)
- Quad Blow (+1), Dark Chain (+1), Draining Aura (+1), Staff Mastery (+1)
- Staff Boost (+1)
- Staff Mastery (MAX)
- High Wisdom (MAX)
- Staff Boost (MAX)
- Quad Blow (MAX)
- Ordinary Conversion (MAX)
- Draining Aura (MAX)
- Dark Chain (MAX)
Battle Mage 2nd Job Skill Explanation
| Skill Name | Max Lvl Description | Purpose |
 Quad Blow | MP Cost: 30, Damage: 220%, Max Attacks: 4, Max Monsters Hit: 5 | Mobbing Skill |
 Dark Chain | MP Cost: 45, Damage: 600%, Max Monsters Hit: 8, Knock Down Duration: 8 sec | Mobbing Skill with longer reach to pull enemies towards you, link with Quad Blow |
 Draining Aura | MP Cost per sec: 28, 1% of damage dealt recovers to your HP. Cannot recover again for 5 sec after a recovery takes place Damage dealt by Battle Mage also recovers the party members within the range of Draining Aura Cooldown: 3 sec Passive Effect: HP recovery every 4 sec: 1000, Max HP recovery every time you eliminate an enemy: 1% | Party + Self Buff, Useful for recovery HP (Stick to yellow aura unless necessary) |
 Staff Boost | MP Cost: 40, Attack Speed increased for 200 sec | Active Buff for Attack Speed |
 Staff Mastery | Staff Mastery: +50%, Magic ATT: +30, Critical Hit Rate: +20% | Passive Buff |
 High Wisdom | Permanently increase INT by 40 | Passive Buff |
 Ordinary Conversion | Max HP: +150% | Passive Buff |
 Grim Contract | After defeating 8 enemies, inflicts damage to 8 enemies on your next attack Damage: 190 + (1% x Character Level), Number of Attacks: 8 Once activated, it cannot activate again until 8 sec have passed. | Passive Effect to help mob |
Battle Mage 3rd Job Skill Build
Dark Shock will be available at 3rd Job which is great since teleporting can now kill mobs. Best way to farm would be for Battle Burst + Blow to cover yourself Horizontally and Teleport to cover your Vertical.
- Grim Contract 2 (auto-maxed)
- Quintuple Blow (+1), Battle Burst (+1), Dark Shock (+1), Blue Aura (+1)
- Battle Mastery (MAX)
- Dark Shock (MAX)
- Quintuple Blow (MAX)
- Dark Conditioning (MAX)
- Blue Aura (MAX)
- Power Stance (MAX)
- Battle Burst (MAX)
Battle Mage 3rd Job Skill Explanation
| Skill Name | Max Lvl Description | Purpose |
 Quintuple Blow | MP Cost: 42, Damage: 235%, Number of Attacks: 5, Max Enemies Hit: 6 | Mobbing Skill (Use after Battle Burst) |
 Battle Burst | MP Cost: 25, Max Enemies Hit: 8, Damage: 900% Passive Effect: Dark Chain’s Damage: +50% | Mobbing and Mobility Skill |
 Blue Aura | MP Cost per sec: 12, Abnormal Status Resistance: +20, Damage Absorption: +15% Cooldown: 3 sec Passive Effect: Abnormal Status Resistance: +30%, Elemental Resistance: 30%, DEF: +150%, Damage Absorption: +25% | Party + Self Buff (Not useful for mobbing but can be useful bossing but, Hasty Aura is probably best) |
 Dark Shock | Extra MP Cost upon using Teleport: 15, Max Number of Hit Enemies between start and end point of teleporting: 8, Damage: 225%, Number of Attacks: 4 Duration of Darkness Emblem on enemy: 5 sec. When attacking enemies with the Darkness Emblem, consume emblems to deal 350% damage and 4 number of times Emblem-consuming attacks have 20% bonus damage when attacking a boss. | Main Mobbing Skill (Toggle On) |
 Battle Mastery | Final Damage: +10%, Critical Damage: +20% | Passive Buff |
 Power Stance | Knockback Resistance: +100% | Passive Buff |
 Dark Conditioning | Avoidability: 25%, Speed: 30, Max Speed: 10 | Passive Buff |
 Grim Contract 2 | After defeating 6 enemies, inflicts damage to 8 enemies on your next attack Damage: 195 + (1% x Character Level), Number of Attacks: 10 Once activated, it cannot activate again until 6 sec have passed | Passive Effect |
Battle Mage 4th Job Skill Build
When you reach your 4th Job you’ll get access to some important Auras. When Bossing you’ll want to use Weakening Aura till the boss is debuffed (lasts for 20 seconds) and then switch to Dark Aura for more damage.
- Grim Contract 3 (auto-maxed)
- Finishing Blow (+1), Dark Genesis (+1), Dark Aura (+1), Staff Expert (+1)
- Battle Rage (+1), Spell Boost (+1)
- Staff Expert (MAX)
- Spell Boost (MAX)
- Finishing Blow (MAX)
- Dark Aura (MAX)
- Dark Genesis (MAX)
- Maple Warrior (MAX)
- Battle Rage (MAX)
- Weakening Aura (MAX)
- Party Shield (MAX)
- Hero’s Will (MAX)
Battle Mage 4th Job Skill Explanation
| Skill Name | Max Lvl Description | Purpose |
 Finishing Blow | MP Cost: 60, Damage: 330%, Max Enemies Hit: 6, Number of Attacks: 6, Crit Rate: +25%, Bonus Ignore DEF: 20% | Mobbing Skill (Use after Battle Burst) |
 Dark Genesis | MP Cost: 200, Max Enemies Hit: 15, Damage: 520%, Number of Attacks: 8, Stun Duration: 4 sec Cooldown: 30 sec Attacking during cooldown has a 60% chance to hit a single enemy with lightning, with damage of 220% Passive Effect: +60% damage on Dark Chain, Battle Burst, and Dark Shock | Mobbing Skill (Use this skill whenever up, close to the center of the map to hit most mobs) |
 Dark Aura | MP Cost per sec: 16, Damage: +20% Cooldown: 3 sec Passive Effect: Magic ATT +15% | Party + Self Buff (Use this Aura if it helps you one-shot or two-shot a mob) |
 Weakening Aura | MP Cost per sec: 26, Enemy DEF: -20% Requires 2 sec to apply but will be in effect 15 sec after aura deactivation Cooldown: 3 sec | Party + Self Buff (Useful for bossing if you need that extra IED) |
 Battle Rage | MP Cost: 50, Damage: +40%, Critical Rate: +20%, Critical Damage: +8% Max Enemies Hit by Any Skill: 1 (Excludes Condemnation, Ambassador Scythe when enhanced by Aura Scythe, Altar of Annihilation and Grim Harvest) Passive Effects – Max HP +30%, Max MP +30% | Active Buff (toggle) (Great for fighting bosses since you can only hit 1 enemy when this is active) |
 Party Shield | MP Cost: 150, Duration 40 sec, -10% damage when hit with an attack that inflicts damage of a certain proportion of Max HP Cooldown: 180 sec | Active Skill to help you survive One-shots |
 Staff Expert | Staff Mastery: +70%. Magic ATT: +30, Critical Damage: +20% | Passive Buff |
 Spell Boost | Magic ATT: +25%, Damage: +10%, Ignore Enemy DEF: +30% | Passive Buff |
 Grim Contract 3 | After defeating 6 enemies, inflicts damage to 10 enemies on your next attack Damage: 200 + (1% x Character Level), Number of Attacks: 12 Once activated, it cannot activate again until 5 sec have passed | Passive Effect |
 Hero’s Will | MP Cost: 30, Cooldown: 300 sec | Active Buff |
 Maple Warrior | MP Cost: 70, Increases all stats assigned APs by 15% for 900 sec | Active Buff |
Battle Mage Hyper Skill Build
Battle Mage hyper skills can be done in two different ways. For mobbing/leveling or End game party bossing. Party Shield is very useful for saving your teammates when doing hard bosses. But it is otherwise useless.
Mobbing/Leveling
Dark Genesis – Cooldown Cutter- Dark Genesis – Reinforce
- Dark Genesis – Additional Reinforce
- Dark Aura – Boss Rush
- Weakening Aura – Elemental Decrease
- Master of Death
- Sweeping Staff
- For Liberty
Dark Genesis – Cooldown Cutter
Dark Genesis – Reinforce
Dark Genesis – Additional Reinforce 
Dark Aura – Boss Rush 
Weakening Aura – Elemental Decrease
Master of Death 
Sweeping Staff 
For LibertyEnd Game Party Bossing
- Dark Genesis – Additional Reinforce
- Dark Aura – Boss Rush
- Party Shield – Cooldown Cutter
- Party Shield – Persist
- Party Shield – Enhance
- Master of Death
- Sweeping Staff
- For Liberty
Dark Genesis – Additional Reinforce 
Dark Aura – Boss Rush 
Party Shield – Cooldown Cutter 
Party Shield – Persist 
Party Shield – Enhance 
Master of Death 
Sweeping Staff 
For Liberty Battle Mage 5th Job Skill Build
When you get to Lvl 200 you’ll get access to your V Matrix and new 5th job skill nodes instantly. The best way to level them up is through Nodestones and Experience nodes.
- Aura Scythe
- Altar of Annihilation
- Grim Harvest
- Abyssal Lightning (i-Frame)
Aura Scythe
Altar of Annihilation
Grim Harvest
Abyssal Lightning (i-Frame)Battle Mage Perfect Trio Nodes
The most important thing when it comes to your V Matrix are your boost nodes. The perfect trio for Battle Mage is Finishing Blow, Condemnation, and Dark Shock. The 2nd trio would be Dark Genesis, Battle Burst, and Sweeping Staff.
For Battle Mage you dont require your boost nodes right away since the 5th job skills are so good. For more damage you must get the first perfect trio. The 2nd trio is not as important.
Another really great V Skill is Resistance Infantry. It has amazing horizontal coverage and will definitely help your rates. Craft Character Building if you are planning on power leveling.
Battle Mage 5th Job Skill Explanation
| Skill Name | Max Lvl Description | Purpose |
 Aura Scythe | Combine all of your auras and become a grim specter of death | Mobbing Skill (This skill increases your range so after Grim Harvest is gone you can use this skill to keep covering the map) |
 Altar of Annihilation | Summons an altar of destructive magic. Once two or more have been placed, the 1st altar fires an orb of deadly void energy that travels between the altars, decimating all in its path Each orb can only strike a given enemy once until recharged by the next altar The orb travels faster when additional altars are placed Additional altars must be placed within range of the previous altar Enemies hit are marked with a Dark Brand Unaffected by attack reflection | Amazing Mobbing and Mobility Skill (When mobbing place them around so you can clear the whole map) (When bossing you’ll want to place two of them so you can always have them up) |
 Grim Harvest | Master the art of black magic and summon death itself to deal with your enemies The summon duration gets longer as there are more souls to be sacrificed The god of death’s attack deals damage to enemies even when they are under attack reflection | Summon Skill (Amazing Summon that covers a wide area, drop it on the left or right of a map and it will take care of it) |
 Abyssal Lightning | Immerse your surroundings in dark magic to gather up black lightning When Dark Shock is active, using Teleport will activate Abyssal Lightning instead Creates a netherworld passage around the Battle Mage periodically. Pressing a directional button will teleport you to the nearest passage in that direction, then close that passage During your teleportation, black lightning will flash in your wake, damaging any enemies in reach and afflicting them with Dark Brand Unaffected by attack reflection | Active Buff + iFrame (Once activated your Dark Shock becomes Abyssal Lightning which has guaranteed Critical Rate and increased IED. Also you’ll be invincible during initial cast and the end of skill) |