Patch notes

[Vialli]

I saw something interesting on the patch notes about how mage is still the most used but not so much staff.
I take this another way.

A lot of players I see are using typical mage spells but are not mages. They are melee but they drop totems and use mage cc.

[GorethMolier]

Those are channeling spells. As long as you have a channeling weapon you can cast spells if you meet the weapon/armor requirements.