Battle mages =/= Spellblades
Going of simple terminology, a battle mage is a mage brought into battle. Any spell caster can be a battle mage, but not all spell casters are battle mages.
Spellblade and Spellbreaker are the typical arcane melee in WoW. You see them in blood/high elves and nightborne NPCs. Suramar is full of them. Anasterian also went into combat with sword and staff Gandalf style against Arthas using both melee attacks and spells.
And yes, they should be made playable and Midnight is the perfect time for it since they are predominately elves.
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Warcraft should add an arcane styled battlemage - the Spellbreaker.
Would be 100% on board for that.
Otherwise, we already have a battlemage: Enhance Shaman.
As if we don’t have enough classes already
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They remind me of the horribly overpowered mage hunter builds you could build as a mage in Dragon Age Origins; Arcane Warrior with Mana Clash meant you could go toe to toe in melee and also could basically wipe out most mages on sight (there’s a reason that spell got deleted in the later games)
Just use your own mana to sustain passives and you’re set.
IIRC FFXIV’s version of red mage also plays a bit with the idea that the lesser magic you use as a spellblade is specifically tailored so you’re using your own lifeforce (i.e. blood magic) rather than draining from ambient mana.
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We have one already enhancement shaman…
Honestly i want s holy dps spec for priest thats not disc
Perhaps the gutting of Arcane that is currently ongoing portends a rework of it as a Melee spec.
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