ninjafish Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 Well, a couple weeks ago I played through DA:O as a dual-wield warrior with high attack speed (hasteless) and high stamina so I could spam out 4-5 skills then auto attack until my healers rejuvenation filled my stamina back up for more skill spamming. I mainly made this to transfer over my save to DA2 (This was a mistake. Such a waste of time since it doesn't really make many references or change much...) and when I noticed I hated DA2, I went back to Origins to continue my character through Awakening. I had done a re-install since my last time playing and going back to my DW warrior, and realized, for whatever reason, my blood skills from the Warden Keep DLC didn't exist anymore... On my skill page it showed the skill tree, but said it couldn't find it or whatever... since one of those skills was key to my crazy attack speed, I kinda need to remake a new character.. bleh. So now, here is what I mainly want to ask:: Since I am making a new character, I was debating maybe just going human-mage, as I don't want to replay the exact same kind of character. Now I am mainly wondering how different dialog // story is as a mage compared to warrior (since mages are frowned upon by all those ignorant people. pfft :P). Now this brings me to my next question.. what build should I go? I'v heard people talking about "Arcane Warrior is OP and the best" but I really don't feel like going auto-attack after spamming skills going into each fight. I would prefer going hybrid for control//damage or support//damage. Any build suggestions (For the record, I am getting all Glyphs because the combination mass paralyze it can cause, ontop of being amazing by themselves makes me love them). My other real question is how does arcane warrior//blood mage spec fair together? I mainly ask because I played DA2 and Merrill with her Dalish abilities + high constitution + sustainables make her an absolute crazy damage resistant, high health girl who casts 1:3 hp:mana ratio which lets her cast forever. I assume it's something they brought over from DA:O, however I never really put any thought into mages on this game. But I feel like going with this build will cause me to end up in a state where i'm only auto attacking and casting a single blood mage skill that hits stuff (just my thought). Well, thats all i'm wondering. Thanks for any advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isensol Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 The mage compared to the warrior storyline is interesting because your feared and people won't go "oh I knew your dad!" :P the mage storyline to me gives much more info on demons and such and allows interesting dialogue with Wynne and other mages because well you are a mage as well. as for specializations that's totally up to you blood mage has one of the best CC spells and if built for it can cast without worrying about dying the arcane warrior does feel over powered when buffed up because you become untouchable and if hit you'll have insane armor rating but you'll just be auto attacking, but does require forthought for spells to take spirit healer is great for support for others and yourself and any caster can do well here. shapeshifter is my personal favorite you can tank dps and CC very well with the forms but I recommend getting a mod for it first because the vanilla version just doesn't work well~http://social.bioware.com/project/1317/ this makes it more vaible for any mage build while still being very balanced the dragon form is a drake or such and isnt overpowered at all its very well made. My build suggestion would be shapeshifter//blood mage which is my current one and tons of fun but arcane warrior//blood mage is also tons of fun, it just depends on playstyle. as for the blood mage//arcane warrior combo the idea is to boost your con and magic and some willpower turn on all your buffs using up the puddle of willpower you have (since you boost con and magic) buffs would be misma, arcane shield, stone skin, and any weapon buffer ex. flame weapons. You can take spell might as well but it just makes your casts stronger and makes misma harder to resist. Then turn on blood magic and you can cast like a normal mage and still hack and slash with auto attack. Your armor and defense will be insanely high only other build that would come close would be a high dex rogue. well thats my advice sorry if anything wasn't clear or if I missed a question but whatever you do have fun :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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