This guide intends to get you through the campaign up to level 60. From this point, you can enter the monolith endgame system. While this guide will use primarily Spellblade mastery nodes it can be used on any mastery up to this level.

Playstyle and Mechanics

These skills allow for an easy close-up play style with some skill automation beginning around level 20 after mastery selection. The focus is getting up close and hitting with Mana Strike while Static triggers Lightning Blast. Flame Ward will trigger whenever you are stunned, but you can also manually trigger it for a boost in power. Enchant Weapon will continuously trigger automatically once the cooldown resets. 

For an additional boost in damage in bossing or elite encounters, you can trigger Static for a burst of damage to take their health down fast. 

Gear Suggestions

While leveling, focus on gear that enhances your lightning damage, health, and INT.

For leveling the mage with this guide either through drops or Rune of Ascendance look out for these leveling Uniques that will make your life easier

Uniques -

Humming Bee - Humming Bee is a great 1H sword that provides great survivability and additional melee elemental damage. If you come across one pair with an offhand catalyst that boosts your lighting damage or Fragment of the Enigma once you meet the level requirement

Battlemage’s Endeavor - this 2H sword is a great weapon for damage as it has the additional ability to trigger our Lighting Blast on melee attack while also providing additional melee attack speed and movement speed. This unique is useable near the middle of your leveling journey

Fragment of the Enigma - This unique off-hand gives us a great amount of damage by boosting the Spark Charge ability that we apply with our Mana Strike. It will also give an additional level to our lighting skills but isn’t available to use until later in your leveling journey

Prism Wraps - Prism Wraps is a great body armor for us as it gives us enhanced survivability and damage.

Dominance of the Tundra is a new mage focused helmet that can provide us with a great source of additional damage

Tome of Elements - This relic is a great addition as it provides us with some survivability that synergizes with Prism Wraps and helps maintain our shock on enemies.