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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 5143270" data-attributes="member: 11821">No, I can see the difference - and yes, it's primarily an Arcane class that channels magic and casts spells through their weapons.  It's not an armored warrior throwing an occasional fireball or what-have-you.  While they do plenty of smacking people with their weapons, the rider effects all have an arcane flavor - like Booming Blade and Greenflame Blade.  With that said, it's exactly what I wanted out of fighter/mage characters from the get-go. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Well, they can engage their targets.  In fact, when they do, they're about as effective as most other Defenders.  They're quirky in that they're most effective when they don't.  I mean, an Assault Swordmage can still teleport into flanking and attack as punishment for violating their mark.  A Shielding Swordmage will still almost negate damage when their mark attacks someone else.  Those things haven't changed.That's possible, but I can tell you from experience that the Realms stuff is very easily ignored.  Don't let it influence your opinion on the class; I haven't even needed to reskin anything.Glad to help!  Let me know if you have more questions; I think the Swordmage is a pretty remarkable and flavorful class, and one of the best new things in 4e.-O</blockquote>

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