If you have the warden class, it has access to a lot of major and minor buffs just from its class abilities and passives, as well as strong healing. Other classes can definitely achieve these too through potions, guild skills, etc, though, but having them all through your class is easier and makes wardens pretty survivable in pve content.

Magblade intereste me in terms of spells but a friend told me that the leveling was very complicated before level 40. what do you think?

As for magicka ranged: Either magicka sorcerer or magicka Nightblade. As you rejected magicka sorcerer, magNB is it than. Nice mobility for PvE, awesome dps and nice self-sustain.
Magicka warden is rather behind the two, and magicka templar just loses too much damage by going ranged in comparism with it's melee version.

Magicka melee: MagickaDK and magicka templar belong here. You stated that you wanted to do dungeons, both are good for that. But if you want to do trials in the future I recommend not picking any of these because solid trial groups tend to not invite magicka melee characters. Trial groups have limited slots for melee characters and stamina toons just do so much more dps than magDK or magplar, so by picking any of these two the leader is limiting the group from the start.

Prodiosounds wrote: »

Magblade intereste me in terms of spells but a friend told me that the leveling was very complicated before level 40. what do you think?

I don't think there's anything 'complicated' about Magblade leveling. Just make sure you have at least one skill from each skill line present on the bar you're using and when you turn in quests- that way your XP gains go towards leveling all three lines. Your 'sustain' skill is "Siphoning Strikes morphed to Siphoning Attacks" but you don't have access to it until you get the skill line to level 30... so for me getting the Siphon skill line leveled was a priority.

What I love about Magblade is that YOU choose when to fight, and once you get to high CP, the XP gained from kills really is irrelevant- which means I can use Shadowy Disguise to move past mobs when I don't want to fight through every single enemy to get to the end of a delve or quest. When I do fight, I can choose to fight from either melee or range... therefore giving the class a lot of versatility and variety.

As for those suggesting Templar... Templars are also a great all-around class allowing you to range or melee. Unfortunately for me, I found playing a Templar to be quite boring after awhile. It's all JABS...JABS...JABS... after 100+ hours, it gets old real quick.

and no sorc.

Then definitly NB. Yes, the class is hard to get the most of, but Funnel Health and Refreshing Path makes it mistakes more forgiving. Plus, they can be played 100% Ranged, which helps a lot to avoid the reds.

I'm biased, so I'd go with magplar. Magblade may be better later on, but I personally feel it's the most difficult class to play.

Prodiosounds wrote: »

Magblade intereste me in terms of spells but a friend told me that the leveling was very complicated before level 40. what do you think?

I have a magtemplar and a magblade. Those are my 2 characters. I don't think that the magblade was "very complicated" under level 40. They're definitely different from each other.

If you compare a magblade to a templar I do believe that they're more complex simply because the templar can go so far with just the first ability of each class skill line.

As far as leveling up, my templar was the first character I had to hit 50 and get the CPs so it was naturally a little more difficult. I started the NB after I had 350 CPs and it melted everything around it. I can't really give you an accurate comparison, but I think if you understand the mechanics of each one and what makes them survivable, either one is a great choice.