Dragon Age Orgins Mage Specialization

[Booze Zombie]

Speaking of which, what are some perks of being a Blood Mage? I had developed an interest during the beginning when your friend does that cool thing to escape using blood magic, but I don't actually know what it does.

Basically, you can cast with your HP instead of your magic points, siphon health off of your team mates (due to blood magic casting reducing all other healing sources to almost nothing), stun monsters and do some pretty decent damage and take control of a person or creature (with blood).

 

[UAProxy]

Blood Mage is kinda lame actually.

Clearly you don't know about Blood Wound, the spell that's practically an AoE form of Crushing Prison. Everyone within twenty feet of you stops what they're doing and just sits there taking constant damage. And then there's the spell that lets you make an enemy unit your ally. Use that on an enemy caster, and you're wiping the walls with them in no time.

IMO, go Arcane Warrior/Bloodmage. That's what I did, and it was a pretty kickass combo for me.

 

[Amnestic]

Arcane Warrior and Spirit Healer/Blood Mage on consoles.

Grab a few shapeshifting mods and go Arcane Warrior/Shapeshifting on the PC.

Pwn everything
Profit.

 

[FluffyNeurosis]

Arcane Warrior is great if you want your mage to run around in plate and hit things when out of manna. That's what I did. Blood Mage is fun but if your like me and dont pay to much attention you can kill yourself with some of the spells.

 

[Amnestic]

Shapeshifter with these mods.#1 [http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=91] #2 [http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=229] #3 [http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=84]

Don't know about #2, but #1 and #3 are definite Must Haves for any shapeshifter.

 

[Lyri]

Arcane Warrior/Bloodmage.

Best tank & dps in the game.

 

[MmmFiber]

Shapeshifter just doesn't have the damage output you need. I went Spirit Healer and then put points towards getting a ton of AOE spells for crowd control, it was a good route.

This is my advice as well. And crushing prison, while not AOE, is still pretty useful to take someone out of the battle for a while. But, it would make a difference if you were playing on the pc or console. If pc, it is more helpful. If console, it can be helpful if used correctly but you might be better served casting more heal spells or aoe/heavy damage spells.

 

[Flamezdudes]

An Arcane Warrior/Blood Mage combination is super OP. My next playthrough is going to be a Spirit Healer/Blood Mage.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Basically, you can cast with your HP instead of your magic points, siphon health off of your team mates (due to blood magic casting reducing all other healing sources to almost nothing), stun monsters and do some pretty decent damage and take control of a person or creature (with blood).

Actually, I don't think I like that at all. Really I am the party healer so taking teammates and my own health does not sound like what I want at all. But thanks for telling me this.

 

[Lusty]

I always keep Wynn in the party as a healer, so I like to use my second Mage for crowd control. Blood Wound is IMO the best spell in the game so Blood Mage is the way to go.

I'd like to have another play through as an Arcane Warrior tank though, looks like fun.

 

[cubikill]

The two best combination are 1. Blood mage/Spirt Healer, because You can activate Blood magic use some very powerful AOE spells. Once done turn off Blood magic and heal your self. And 2. Blood mage/Arcane Warrior. The Arcane warrior lets you equip heavy armor, this defend the mage when he is using his health bar and his mana pool.

 

[Hurr Durr Derp]

Shapeshifter is utterly useless without mods. It's slow, the forms are weak, and you lose access to all your spells when shifted.

Spirit Healer is pretty good, but you probably won't use all of the abilities. It's certainly worth having at least one in the group, but you can also use Wynne or Morrigan for this.

Blood Mage is great. You can get some very powerful abilities, and you can use HP in stead of Mana which is very useful if you use it right.

Arcane Warrior is grossly overpowered. With the ability to wear massive armour, a few defensive buffs, plus the entire AW ability line, you're virtually unkillable. And if you turn the AW buffs off you can cast (almost) as well as a regular mage.

One great (and obscenely overpowered) character build is to go Blood Mage + Arcane Warrior. First cast spells like a normal mage until you run out of mana, then toggle on your buffs and run into melee where you'll be untouchable. If you still need to cast spells at this point, simply activate Blood Magic you use your HP in stead of mana. This way you can take on almost any encounter with great ease.

 

[Sir Mate]

Man, im acctually beating the game as Arcane warrior/blood mage wth only the accented girl(the rogue)on Nightmare!
and its almost too easy, i havent used a single lyrium potion due to the blood mage spec.