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The Mage was the most played class in the June 2026 focus group test. Here is what the developers have shown of it, and what is still unknown.

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Illustration — not in-game footage
Weapons
magic staff, elemental staff
Popularity
most played class at the June 2026 focus group test
Confirmed
Last updated
2026-09-03
Evidence
3 source records
Page status
Editorial available
Category
Classes

What is confirmed

The Mage is one of the four classes XLGAMES has named, and the one testers picked most often in June 2026. Beyond that ranking and a class video, the studio has published far less about it than about the Warrior or the Ranger.

The Mage appears by name on the official infographic XLGAMES published on 3 July 2026, summarising its June focus group test. That graphic ranks the four classes by popularity: Mage first, then Ranger, Warrior and Berserker, across 165 testers and 2,006 hours of play.

The same infographic lists the three most used weapons of the test — the elemental staff, the wavesword and the longsword — which is the only official statement so far linking staves to the class that uses them.

Documented facts

Each entry keeps the level of certainty recorded in the source data.
Confirmed
Mage
The records below document this identity. No additional structured attributes are published on this page.
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The documented account

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What has only been reported

Massively Overpowered reported on 30 July 2026 that XLGAMES had published a video for the Mage class alongside one for housing, and had gone into detail on the Warrior and the Ranger. The Mage video itself has not been turned into a written class profile the way those two were.

The magic staff is described in an official weapon post of 4 December 2024 — “Cast powerful spells with your Magic Staff … become a mage that is feared by all enemies by dominating the battlefield with your spells” — but that post predates the naming of the classes and does not tie the weapon to a class by name.

What is still unknown

No skill list, no weapon paths, and no resource or cooldown mechanics have been published for the Mage. Where the Warrior and Ranger each received a written path structure in July 2026, the Mage has not — so any list of Mage abilities circulating today does not come from the developers.

The studio has said progression is level-based and class-based, with each class carrying its own weapon proficiencies and skill trees, but it has not detailed what the Mage’s tree contains.

What this page establishes

Available evidence
Documented
  • 2 confirmed source records.
  • 1 reported source records.
Scope
Method
  • Statements retain the source level shown below.
  • Coverage is dated 2026-08-31; later changes require a new review.

Chain of evidence

3 source records · 2 confirmed · 1 reported · How we establish what we publish
Every source this page rests on, with its recorded date and confirmation level. 3 source(s). These documentary notes remain in the language in which they were collected; they are not necessarily verbatim quotations.
Source note — wording preservedSourceDateStatusContext
CLASS POPULARITY — 1 MAGE · 2 RANGER · 3 WARRIOR · 4 BERSERKER (infographie officielle du Focus Group Test de juin 2026)x.com ↗ConfirmedOfficial communication
In addition to videos for housing and the Mage class, the team has deep-dived the Warrior and — most recently — the Ranger.massivelyop.com ↗ReportedPress report
Cast powerful spells with your Magic Staff!x.com ↗ConfirmedOfficial communication
Source note — wording preserved
CLASS POPULARITY — 1 MAGE · 2 RANGER · 3 WARRIOR · 4 BERSERKER (infographie officielle du Focus Group Test de juin 2026)
Source
x.com ↗
Date
Status
Confirmed
Context
Official communication
Source note — wording preserved
In addition to videos for housing and the Mage class, the team has deep-dived the Warrior and — most recently — the Ranger.
Date
Status
Reported
Context
Press report
Source note — wording preserved
Cast powerful spells with your Magic Staff!
Source
x.com ↗
Date
Status
Confirmed
Context
Official communication

Source timeline — Mage

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