Screwed-up weakling mage

[willjk57]

Maybe it's the many mods I've installed or maybe not. And yet it seems it's with the unmodded base game, also, I think, but I like to play as a mage for the most part.

What is with the DAO game's adjusting/mechanics (or whatever that word would be) in the game progression, is it flawed or just not really balanced well for a mage?

My magic seems quite useful and powerful from the start up to about the 3rd major completion of the main quests. Then when I get to the Deep roads my magic (at best) seems feeble even tho I am a 'powerful mage' by that time. Even the lowest enemies seem to be constantly resisting
my spells and no matter how much stuff I have equipped for spell resistance my immunity there also seems useless, too. Yes, I understand the darkspawn are quite nasty down there, but ****, this is ridiculous.

Btw, I don't have any difficulty mods installed and went from Nightmare back down to hard, seeing I just don't have the patience for micromanagiing my/others tactics/actions constantly. Well, I do mine of course, but...

It's all quite frustrating and I usually take control of Leliana and her archery and play her and let 'me' fend for 'himself' with his tactics which I think are best and not very useful. It's like he becomes that useless weakling Murdoch in the Redcliffe defense, and the first to fall (blehhh).

Another 'grrrr' thing, why the **** have I a constant 'Aura of Weakness' penalty on my xp bar that I cannot get rid of now? I thought it was from not getting one of the Black Vial revenants down fast enough (which is when it first appeared), and would eventually disappear. Ugh.

Another 'grrrr' thing is the ghastly blue fog surrounding me sometimes? It happens to Wynne and Morrigan, too, that takes a many transitions on the map to finally be rid of, it does go away but not my Aura of weakness!

I've also tried thru console to become an archer (that seems cool because certainly It's something the mages at the circle could have had some sport with in their spare time, no?) yet no matter what I input, I can't seem to hit the side of a barn with a semi. I guess the game is just not going let me do that effectively (dexterity). Bah! yet I can sneak and picklocks quite effectively (cunning),
go figure.

[LadyHonor]

the easiest way to get rid of the aura of weakness glitch that I've found is to give yourself the talent or spell via the console. cast it then deactivate it.