Alright, so… allow me to cook here.
Warlord might not seem like much at first glance, it’s just strength and weapons, however there’s actually a lot that comes into that.
First off, you got your average fighting styles. By itself, it’s pretty decent, you can rush in on your opponent, and all that jazz. Then you have the weapons, some are decent, and my lord some are just somewhat busted, but let’s go away from that for now.
The point is, if you combine those two, along with lost knowledge, you get something called “Mult stacking.” This ends up creating insanely large AoE attacks that have super high power and are really hard to dodge if you can at all. Let’s put mage into an example, mage is the ranged guy who goes at far ranges and snipes their opponents, occasionally defending themself with explosion, and uses some AoE attacks. Sounds fun and all, but mage doesn’t have access to the same kind of mult stacking that warlord does, meaning their attack’s damage ends up being way less.
To make an example of the shenanigans I must deal with when it’s warlord vs mage, a warlord did 1000 damage in a single hit with a huge attack. The average health is like 2000 to 2250, so that’s like 2-3 hits to kill someone. Meanwhile, sure, I have some good AoE attacks, but they don’t NEARLY do as much damage as that, and I have 240 power, while he had 150. I even tested my explosion later and it still only did 500.
Though, there’s another stupidly big strength warlord has over mage: The ability quickly move towards you. No matter what I did as a mage, may it be construct tower, leap, hover, dodge reflex and dashing, I just can’t outpace warlord in that regard. If anything, warlord 2x’s my agility just as base, and combined with his ridiculous base AoE? Absolutely not. Also, another very simple thing that plays extremely bad for us, warlord can enchant their weapons and thus making it more powerful without focusing gear stats, but we can’t necessarily enchant our spells (Unless lost knowledge). That puts mages at a disadvantage, because that means we have to rely a lot on gear for our power while warlord’s are able to focus a lot more on defense and size while having the same power as a mage, giving them a massive advantage.
TL,DR: Warlord’s have way too much power because they have way too many ways to increase their power compared to mages. Now, if mages had something that could also increase their power, size, and whatnot, like for example a mage staff (Where they could channel their magic energy into) that would definitely even the playing field a little. Though, as it stands, Warlord is not only better than being a mage but entirely outclasses them in a whole another league.
