Coming into the game, I didn’t know what kind of build I wanted to do at first. After playing for a while, I decided to invest my points into intelligence and try playing a mage. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that even though I was a mage, the gameplay was super different from what I was expecting. Mages are still melee in this game. You need to hit attacks or parry targets to get focus, and then you can back up and shoot spells, until you need to repeat the process again. I find this gameplay loop really fun and I want to hear what others who have been playing as a mage think.
This post is feedback for the devs to know that I want you to continue to do things like this, and to let you know you are on the right track with this stuff.