User blog comment:Ryushusupercat/Creating Charas for the Elemental Clans/@comment-27022777-20151218165129/@comment-995908-20151219025417

Tacticians and Battle Mages both have wildly different fighting styles. Tacticians are strategic and combo-reliant (individual attacks aren't as powerful, hence the combos) and tend to utilize physical attacks, while Battle Mages are all about bursts of high energy-based damage.

I can understand him focusing so hard on one opponent that the other one gets free hits on him, but that's a bit of a cop-out to put as one of his weaknesses.

45 hits to be killed by a bladed weapon? That's...kind of weird to put an exact number to how many times he can be hit by a bladed weapon before perishing, especially since not every cut is created equal; not every bladed weapon is created equal, either.

Not to mention that Battle Mages and Tacticians aren't very durable in the first place; they're not like Knights or Blacksmiths, who are quite sturdy, yet relatively slow-moving.

I have no idea how powerful each "sunlight sphere" is, but I have a hard time believing that it takes only 9 of them to level an entire mountain. Unless each sphere was immensely powerful, able to decimate a small structure by itself, but more often than not there's the trade-off of each sphere taking a great deal of stamina from the user to unleash. And again, this is coming from an Element that generally isn't based around raw, destructive power.