New Dragon's Dogma 2 Videos Put the Mage and Archer Vocations in Focus | MMORPG.com

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• Angrakhan Member EpicPosts: 1,748

  February 19

  Mage seems to have an annoyingly long cast time to their spells. Hopefully there's some way to shorten that windup. Definitely seems like a class that would struggle with melee enemies that rush you.
• Sovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,779

  February 19

  
  

  Angrakhan said:

  
  

  Mage seems to have an annoyingly long cast time to their spells. Hopefully there's some way to shorten that windup. Definitely seems like a class that would struggle with melee enemies that rush you.

  
  

  
  
  In the first game some spells did take quite a bit but you could upgrade to the next level. I don't believe it made them "instant cast" but they were fast.
  
  Ultimately you have 3 pawns as your party members and they can help you if you are a mage. While you don't literally control them you can call them to you and they can take care of your enemy as you reposition yourself.

  

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• Warlyx Member EpicPosts: 3,367

  February 19

  ugh archer looks amazing , mage however .....that water spell looks lame, i dont mind invocations , but it has to take so much screen? u can barely see anything ...they dont want cast bars , and i can understand but ugh....
  
  
• Sovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,779

  February 19

  
  

  Warlyx said:

  
  

  ugh archer looks amazing , mage however .....that water spell looks lame, i dont mind invocations , but it has to take so much screen? u can barely see anything ...they dont want cast bars , and i can understand but ugh....
  
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  I think it's supposed to be large enough to not only push the enemy but also be a barrier. That is if you are talking about the first ice spell?

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• Neoyoshi Member RarePosts: 1,450

  February 19 edited February 19

  Angrakhan said:

  Mage seems to have an annoyingly long cast time to their spells. Hopefully there's some way to shorten that windup. Definitely seems like a class that would struggle with melee enemies that rush you.

  
  Yep, just like in the first game, hehe. It's a bit annoying, but you get used to it, and forming a party around the magic-users is pretty exciting- having frontliners to take on the enemies while your mage gets it's 1-2 shot death spell ready is part of a bigger learning process.
  
  Enemy mages have the same weakness, they have long-casts; so when encountering more dangerous groups, you always look for the enemy mage casting something, cause usually it's a kill spell if it takes long, -so striking a mage while casting interrupts the cast.
  
  Whoever was creating these demonstration videos didn't exactly showcase a mage in larger party make-ups; which is where the mage truly shines; but i'm guessing they were trying to keep the demonstrations simple and not show too much.

  
  
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• xdave78 Member UncommonPosts: 121

  February 20 edited February 20

  Mage looks lame af - the movement and animation reminded me of my neighbour when he flamed away the weeds on his footpath...