Cryomancer
Arcane
Theautistic Russiansmodders who made Returning never understood what makes Gothic 2 great, almost every single thing that they added makes it worse like the retarded stamina system, the UI, the shit high fantasy story and so much more.
Wrong. Returning allows a lot of good things. For eg, you no longer needs to distribuite sausage in a all male monastery to learn magic, nor learn army of darkness as a sheep of innos. Xardas can teach you. Saturas too. The act 3 quest about freeing a innocent blacksmith never shows the real culprit in base game. Returning added a optional quest to investigate teh real assassin. Jharkendar? On the main story, you visit only once. On returning, you visit on chapter 2, on chapter 4 and has a huge open area to understand more about the ancients.
The mod is GREAT. Even if he has a lot of fanfic on it. Being a necromancer or a water magician is more than enough reason to play it.