Old info, but some of it you may have forgotten.

• Battlemages:
  • Frequency of double "dancing blade" hits lowered.
  • Hit roll of scythe and dancing blade lowered.
  • Effect of item stats on "dancing blade" slightly modified
    to prevent extremes.
  • Dam roll of both dancing blade and scythes lowered to some
    extent.
• What this means:
  • Due to the way dancing blade and scythes attacks are made, the changes above have greatest impact on level 50 mages. Most of the changes should be practically un-noticeable for lower level Battlemages.
  • Scythes should be actually blockable at level 50 now, They both now damage less, even though still a very respectable amount of damage.
  • Dancing Blade now should force you to look for a bit more high powered weapons to be truly devastating, and even at high skill its double hits should be less frequent. Also some safeties were put in for cases of extreme weapons which would result in enormous power.
• Finally defenses have been tweaked to not have such powerful advantage in cases where bmg. has rank advantage.
  
• What All that means:
  • The raw damage output of bmg has been decreased for level 50, it should force you to begin using some other things they have to even out the odds.
  • Blades are excellent all around spell, they swing, deflect and should have offense potential of average hits made by an average level 50 warrior class.
  • Dancing Blade is harder to use then blades, and requires proper weapons for it to do some useful damage. In return you also get some goodies like its special attacks, AND ability to match vulnerabilities. (Scythes vs. Giants do squat for damage for example).
  • Hopefully all of this will force you guys to consider more of their very useful and powerful arsenal, the class should be a little weaker against mobs now, unless they punch.
• Finally they will be getting a skill called "sequencer" in next few days, which should make your life easier while not really adding to their power at all.