EE:Magician
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This feature is part of the Extreme Edition fan-made expansion. |
| Magician | |
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| Tier 4 Class | |
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 Human Magician]]
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| Building: Mage Tower Level 4 Mage Tower]] |
"Most Magicians were once more reputable Wizards who got sick of being poor. Despite possessing actual magical talent, they usually just con people to get by. Fortunately the threat of judicial action is enough to get them adventuring from time to time."
The Magician is a special tier 4 class introduced in the Extreme Edition mod. Like other classes from the Mage Tower, efficient use of the class revolves around glyphs.
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Strategy
Like most casting classes, the Magician specializes in killing monsters without having to worry about their damage stat or traits. The Magician is particularly good at this as the class has the tools necessary to avoid problematic traits for other casters. The 
WEYTWUT glyph given by TELEPORTATION allows the Magician to not worry about monsters with 
Retaliate: Fireball, while SMOKE AND MIRRORS lets you handle enemies such as Beholders, which inflict a debilitating debuff against every other character by means of the Riposte trait. This ability to ignore many enemy traits also allows the Magician to safely weave in melee attacks in combat without worrying about traits such as 
Mana Burn.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS, however, is a very limited trait, as in most cases it can only be used 5 or 6 times in a run. As such, Magician particularly benefits from worshipping a god that gives a free glyph, since even if the glyph itself does not have much utility, it can still give a large amount of value just by being converted for 0 CP. As SMOKE AND MIRRORS is so limited in use, the Magician benefits from planning which enemies will be fought later in the dungeon. Using the free WEYTWUT, one can assemble up to 7 targets adjacent to one space (leaving one tile to walk through) before converting one glyph. By deciding in advance which monsters will be fought or need to be stripped of debuffs (for example, popcorn Beholders), the Magician can enjoy an easy leveling phase while still keeping several glyphs available for casting and eventually extra damage to the boss.
Aside from these details, the Magician is a fairly straightforward fireball caster class that most often relies on 
BURNDAYRAZ, and benefits from the same items, gods, and glyphs as other casters. FLASH is a dual-purpose trait. When fighting a lower-level target, the +20% melee damage helps the Magician kill bulkier popcorn in fewer hits, which helps with the typical caster's difficulty in making use of the whole popcorn bowl. On the other hand, when fighting a higher-level target, it allows for significantly increased damage through the heavy fireball, which deals +4 damage per level and maximizes burning stacks. Functionally, maximized burning stacks cause future fireballs to deal +2 damage per level, making the magician a powerful fireball caster who particularly benefits from being able to cast as many fireballs in a row as possible. Magicians should always pre-slow a target with WEYTWUT before a fight. In a boss fight or for a particularly big leveling kill, additional slows from SMOKE AND MIRRORS can be used for additional damage and, against the final boss, one can convert the BURNDAYRAZ glyph for one extra melee attack.
Races
Elf: Magicians need a lot of mana, so elf makes a natural fit. Combined with helpful gods to get your mana up or slow things for free, an Elf Magician can rely on intense burn damage to smite high level monsters with relative ease.
Gnome: A decent alternative for players not relying on gods, Gnomes shine as Magicians because they are in no real hurry to convert, so there's very little from stopping you from hoarding all your glyphs until the ending boss spike, converting them next to the boss for free slows paying for the actual fireballs with the mana potions generated from the conversions themselves.
Deities
The Earthmother is a no-brainer, given her 
Entanglement boon is the single most useful tool to a Magician (AND she offers mana restores to boot) but she's not the only one worth thinking about. 
Mystera Annur and 
Jehora Jeheyu also make fantastic picks, the former for offering more mana and additional restores of said mana, and the latter for increasing mana and generally paying generous amounts of piety for slowing things, as you want to anyway, not to mention his free glyph counts for SMOKE AND MIRRORS.
