First of all, Archmages get 3 points of innate Siphon, which means that each monster kill restores 6 mana. The Archmage has two other innate abilities. This was going to take some careful play at the start of this run.
And it wasn't as if I could cast my way through every problem either, as the typical spell costs 15 MP and I only had 150 max mana to play around with. Only 50 maximum hit points to begin? Only 12 damage per swing of the sword? Yikes! Talk about a brutal start. The 150 mana was quite nice, but otherwise this was almost entirely bad news. ( You can compare here to the starting image from my Paladin run to see this in action.) The picture above demonstrates the various stat penalties/bonuses in action. The default starting values for a Paladin are 100 health, 100 mana, 25 strength, and 25 intelligence. Here's a look at the stats for a Level 0 mage: You're essentially forced to rely on casting spells at a distance, since you can't survive very many hits, and trading with your melee weapon (which also gets a 50% penalty to damage) just isn't very attractive as an option. The very low health of this character class makes the Archmage extremely fragile, and that would be a real issue throughout this quest. This is a bit of a raw deal, since you suffer a 50% penalty to health and physical damage, while only getting a 25% bonus to magic damage on spellcasts. For the Archmage, the following stats have these permanent modifiers:
All classes in this game (other than the Paladin) have bonuses and penalties to certain stats. This is a job that focuses heavily on casting spells as opposed to attacking physically, and would be very different indeed from the previous Paladin undertaking. This allowed me to investigate the ins and outs of the gameplay for the Paladin in much more detail, as well as customize my upgrades and equipment choices specifically for that class, and I hoped to do the same thing here for the Archmage. Earlier, I had done the same thing for the Paladin class: play as a single job type with each venture through the dungeon, killing off any heirs who didn't randomly roll the designated class. I decided to do another playthrough of Rogue Legacy, this time focusing on the Archmage class.
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