9/10 (if you have a patient guild) Volgen Rating: 2/10 (if you play solo) Ian Grimm’s Rating: “Delete it.” Have a Volgen story? Share your best “Phase Recall” save or fail in the comments below. And don’t forget to check out our complete guide to the Raven’s Banquet Fishing Tournament (yes, it’s still bugged).

But when you land that perfect Phase Recall, pulling an entire enemy team back into a collapsing dungeon hallway while your party spams the laughing emote? There is no better feeling in gaming.

Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet has always been a game about creativity over brute force, and no class embodies that philosophy more than the Volgen. It is clunky. It is infuriating. It requires you to think like a game designer, not a player.

The Volgen struggles against the Druid (who has too many low-cooldown abilities to forget) and the Bard (whose songs are considered “passive auras,” not “active abilities,” thus immune to Unstable Mnemonic). Why You Should Play Volgen in Season 4 With the upcoming Ashes of the Storytree expansion, leaked patch notes suggest a new Volgen talent tree called “Gaslight” — allowing the Volgen to make an enemy see false health values for 5 seconds. Imagine a boss showing 10% health when it actually has 40%. Chaos.

In gameplay terms, the Volgen is a . It does not tank, nor does it heal. Instead, it manipulates “positional memory” — a unique resource bar called Resonance . Core Mechanics: The Resonance System Unlike Mana, Rage, or Focus, Resonance builds passively when the Volgen is near action but not directly involved. Standing next to a Warrior blocking three mobs? Resonance ticks up. Hiding behind a pillar while a Cleric casts a massive AoE heal? Resonance spikes.

Top-tier PvP guilds like Raven’s Shadow and Banquet Breakers run exactly per raid team. Their role is not damage or healing — it’s disruption . A skilled Volgen can single-handedly dismantle a coordinated enemy push by making the tank forget their taunt or the mage forget their teleport.

In Season 2, Episode 5 (“Backstory!”), we learn that the Volgen was actually the passion project of a junior designer named (a character created for the show’s internal lore). After she left the company, Ian tried to nerf the class into irrelevance, only for the player base to revolt. The episode ends with a hilarious mock patch note: “Volgen: Now properly forgets its own identity. Working as intended.” How to Play the Volgen (Without Raging) If you’re new to Raven’s Banquet and want to main a Volgen, here is the brutal truth: You will be useless for your first 20 hours. The class requires a level of battlefield prediction that feels less like an action RPG and more like playing chess against a cat.

By IGN Gaming Staff