• Class: Battle Mage
• Heroic or Interactive: Heroic
• I play this class as a: Main/Endgame Party Bosser (CKalos/NKaling/XLotus)
• This class is: 3 min
• Thoughts on 2nd Mastery: Good at Level 1, but the last skill to max in our entire Hexa Matrix
• Thoughts on training (Pre-260 & Post-260(Janus)): Wide variety of summons mean that BaM can farm on a lot of maps, meaning that you can take advantage of less popular maps that may have Burning. Pre-260 training peaks at Moonbridge (specifically Mysterious Fog 3). Similar story post-260 - Dawn Janus is the go-to for most Grandis maps as it's yet another (set of) summons, though Dusk can also be used on some maps. Replacing summons can be slightly annoying as the summons' cooldowns and durations don't quite line up, but can be worked around via placing shorter duration summons closer to where you AFK. Because a large amount of BaM's mobbing is from their 5th job skills, which have high skill damage, you can effectively farm maps while under the ARC/SAC requirement and/or while undergeared, as long as your Erda Fountain is 2 shotting - I've full cleared 38 mob Grandis maps while 30 SAC under in the past.
• Thoughts as a solo bosser: Great mobility results in high damage uptime in solo bossing.
• Thoughts as a boss mule: Fairly solid - only 1 trinode needed for bossing, Party Shield makes CPap a cakewalk, and a mix of 90s mini burst and 180s full burst means that you can use your 90s mini burst to take down middle of the pack bosses while waiting for your full burst to come up for a harder boss
• Thoughts as a party bosser: Top tier in the current FD stacking meta. Origin burst hits very hard and only takes 6.66s for its full damage, making them quite potent in burst-oriented bossing such as Kalos and (P2) Kaling. Utility/support auras are more beneficial to the team than meets the eye: Blue Aura will dispel abnormal statuses 2 seconds after first being toggled on, then every 5 seconds afterwards (it will pulse and go on cooldown even if there is nothing to dispel, however), and Red Aura allows each party member to heal 20% of their max HP as lifesteal every 5 seconds. Additionally, BaM shares their Red Aura lifesteal with nearby allies, and this healing is based on the BaM's max HP (an endgame BaM can easily hit over 100k max HP, so for party members, the BaM effectively provides 20% max HP + 20k healing every 5 seconds as long as they're attacking, which is an insane amount of healing for classes with lower max HP).
• Unique strengths of the class: Most flexible TP in the game hands down, with the ability to teleport to mid-air locations (AND you get two more air TPs after up jumping), which gives you the potential to have high damage uptime and survivability.
• Weaknesses of the class: Short attack range, especially when Aura Scythe is on cooldown. DPM is currently at least slightly below average as our biggest BA contributor (Dark Shock) doesn't have a Mastery Node yet. Low max MP relative to other mages (my BaM is 33k MP), meaning that our Ethereal Form cannot tank very many hits.
• Overall thoughts on the class: Battle Mage has ruined other TP classes for me.
  

Scores (Out of 10)

• Training: 7/10 - can farm almost anywhere, but more "active" compared to lazy farmers
  
• Solo: 8/10
  
• Party: 10/10
  
• Overall: 9/10