Monsters and Memories Spellblade Guide

01The Spellblade at a Glance

The Spellblade is the magic swordsman of Monsters and Memories — a light-armored melee fighter who loads their weapon with arcane, electric or telekinetic energy and turns every swing into a spell. Blink behind your target, slash, discharge your infusion as a burst, and teleport out before the mob can answer.

The official class page puts it plainly: the Spellblade "channels arcane force through their weapon rather than directly," and "the fight rewards attention and timing rather than a fixed rotation." If you play it on autopilot it is an average melee class; if you manage your infusions and cooldowns well it hits hard and never stands still.

02Is the Spellblade Right for You?

For a new player, the Spellblade starts simple — one infusion, Infused Slash and Arcane Spear — and adds layers every few levels. By the time Conduit (level 8) and your third infusion (level 10) arrive, you'll have a feel for the basics. It's a good first class for someone who likes to be busy.

03Choosing Your Race

The official site lists six Spellblade races; four are playable at Early Access. Here are each race's base values for the stats that matter most — your class adds its own bonus on top at creation, and you get 10 bonus points to spend.

Spending your 10 bonus points

Our Spellblade class page lists Intelligence and Agility as primary and Strength and Stamina as secondary. Intelligence powers your Kinetic Ward (the deep dive says it "scales with your Intelligence") and the spell half of your kit; Agility helps you avoid hits in light armor; Strength feeds your weapon damage.

• Recommended for most players:+5 INT / +5 AGI.
• Gnomes and Deep Elves already have high INT — lean AGI or STR (+3 INT / +4 AGI / +3 STR).
• Humans and Dwarves start with less INT — push it harder (+6 INT / +4 AGI).
• If you die a lot early, a few points of STA are never wasted on a light-armored melee class. Avoid WIS and CHA.

Deep Dwarf and High Elf are listed as Spellblade races on the official site but aren't playable at Early Access. Race base stats are from our New Player Guide.

04Recommended Traits

You pick one trait from each of four categories at creation (see the New Player Guide for the full lists). For a Spellblade:

05Getting Started

Your starter quest

Every Spellblade begins with a class starter quest that teaches the basics and hands out your first gear. For the full step-by-step walkthrough, with every NPC, location and reward, see our Spellblade Starter Quest Guide. Individual quest pages: Spellblade Starter Quest (Night Harbor).

Where to buy spells and abilities

• Night Harbor: Spellblade spells and abilities are sold by vendors. Start at the Spellbinders Spire with Njau Hansou and ask a guard for the Spellblade vendor.
• Gnome and Deep Elf Spellblades starting in the Underdocks or Ail’Vorith: ask a guard for your trainer, and see our Underdocks and Ail’Vorith pages. The starter quest itself is in Night Harbor.
• Martial abilities like Infused Slash and Phase Strike are bought from the vendor too — check back every few levels for new ranks.

06Your Toolkit

Spellblade abilities come in lines: you learn one, then buy stronger versions every few levels. Levels shown are when the first version (and each upgrade) becomes available. Everything revolves around your active infusion — it changes what your slashes, Conduit, spells and even your parries do.

07Abilities to Prioritize, Levels 1–28

You won't be able to afford every rank as soon as it unlocks. This is the order that matters most for a new Spellblade:

Past level 28, the pattern continues: upgrade Infused Slash and Kinetic Ward first, then your spell damage lines (Arcane Spear, Discharge), then fields. Deflection arrives at 30 and Maelstrom at 57.

08Playing in a Group

In a group you are damage with a twist: every fight you choose the infusion that helps most, soften the target for everyone, and use your mobility to stay alive without the healer's help.

Before the pull

• Buff up: Aura of the Arcane for the group (casters love it), Spellshield and Kinetic Ward on yourself.
• Pick your infusion for the fight. Arcane lowers magic resist for your casters; Electric adds stuns against casters and runners; Telekinetic steals the target's speed and agility and cheapens your ward.
• Ask the group who is handling crowd control, and which mobs not to touch.

During the fight

1. Let the tank establish threatGive the tank a few seconds. A light-armored Spellblade with aggro is in trouble.
2. Phase Strike inTeleport behind the kill target — you'll avoid frontal attacks and trigger your infusion on arrival.
3. Weave your attacksInfused Slash on cooldown, with Arcane Spear or Discharge between slashes. Match the spell to your infusion to save mana.
4. Soften the targetPut Implosion on it: lower block, dodge and parry help every melee in the group, and it implodes for extra damage.
5. Burst with ConduitSpend your infusion when the group needs damage now — or when a runner needs stopping with the Electric stun. Then swap to another infusion while it recovers.
6. Get out when you pull aggroSeclusion drops your threat, roots the mob and teleports you away. Don't wait for the healer to notice.

09Soloing

The Spellblade solos comfortably for a melee class, because it has a ranged pull, a damage shield and ways to escape.

• Open at range. The deep dive suggests softening enemies with Arcane Spear before they reach you, then finishing in melee.
• Choose kiting or mitigation. Telekinetic Infusion's Kinetic Siphon slows your target and speeds you up — good for kiting. Or stand and fight behind a fresh Kinetic Ward.
• Stop runners with the Electric Conduit stun or the Telekinetic Conduit immobilize, so they don't bring friends back.
• Seclusion is your reset. Immobilize the mob, teleport away, and recast your ward or spellshield before re-engaging with Phase Strike.
• Phase Strike breaks stuns and roots — save it for when a caster mob locks you down.
• Sit between pulls once you have Meditation (hybrids get it at level 8) — your spells and wards eat mana.

10Leveling Path

A suggested route for a Spellblade. You can solo more than most melee, but groups level faster and let you use your fields and Implosion to full effect.

See Where to Level in the New Player Guide for more spots, and each zone page for maps and named mobs. Resting near a campfire builds a 15% Rested experience bonus.

11Gear to Look For

Wear light armor and look for Intelligence and Agility first, then Strength and Stamina, with mana and health as a bonus. Your weapon matters a lot — Infused Slash and Phase Strike scale with weapon damage — so upgrade it whenever you find a better damage-to-delay ratio. Weapons that carry INT and STR are ideal.

Early gear (roughly levels 1–16)

Upgrades for later

Stats from our item database. Item levels aren't published, so "early" is based on where they drop, and some Night Harbor and Tel Ekir named are tougher than the zone around them. Browse the database for more gear your class can use.

12Infusions and Conduit

• One infusion at a time. Your active infusion decides your proc damage type, the secondary effect, which spell is cheaper, what Infused Slash adds, and what Conduit becomes.
• Arcane: magic damage procs and Arcane Frailty (lower magic resist). Pick it in groups with casters, and when you're opening with Arcane Spear. Conduit: a big magic detonation.
• Electric: electric procs and a chance to stun. Pick it against casters and runners. Conduit: an electric arc that stuns the target and jumps to a second one.
• Telekinetic: physical procs and Kinetic Siphon (slow the target, speed yourself up). Pick it for soloing and kiting; it also makes Kinetic Ward cheaper. Conduit: a knockback and immobilize.
• Conduit is a decision, not a button. It puts your current infusion on a long cooldown and the others on a short one — so after you Conduit, you'll be fighting with a different infusion for a while. Plan which one you want to be left with.
• Before a pull, set the infusion you want to finish the fight with, not just start it with. The deep dive notes Spellblades can make important decisions "even before it, if a pull doesn't go to plan."
• Mana still matters. Infused Slash and Phase Strike cost none, so if you run low, lean on them and save mana for Kinetic Ward.

13Common Spellblade Mistakes

• Playing it like a fixed rotation. The class is built to reward choosing the right infusion and timing.
• Using Conduit the moment it's ready without thinking about which infusion you'll be left with.
• Breaking crowd control with Electric Conduit arcs, Static Field or Implosion near a mezzed mob.
• Knocking mobs out of position with the Telekinetic Conduit when the tank has them lined up.
• Standing in front of the mob. Phase Strike puts you behind it — stay there.
• Letting Kinetic Ward drop in light armor. Keep it and Spellshield up.
• Forgetting your aura. Aura of the Arcane lasts until you cancel it — make sure it's on.

14Spellblade FAQ