Enigmatic_Oddity wrote:
I found mages extremely useful, but I never used them as my primary damage dealers on my playthrough (Nightmare difficulty). My main character was a dual dagger wielding rogue, who did most of the damage (over 50% of total party damage), whilst Alistair tanked. Morrigan was my offensive mage, and she was used primarily in tandem with Wynne for crowd control (Paralysis, Force Field, Crushing Prison, Glyphs of Repulsion + Paralysis). The only real 'nuking' I did with my mages were Mana Clash on enemy spellcasters, and Stonefist on frozen targets. Between all the crowd control, my rogue would run around and backstab everyone to death. You also don't have the problem of positioning that you run into using mages as damage dealers, as most of their best damage comes from area of effect type spells.
Get blood wound and spam it on anything that has blood. Mages should be both your primary damage dealers and crowd controllers.
Even without blood wound, fireball and cone of cold is enough to satisfy your nuking needs, especially with their low cooling times. And give your rogue the ranger specialization so you can summon expendable meatshields. Also, try and get two mages with haste if you can. Their effects will stack up, and you'll end up with a very fast movement and attack speed.
25 Jul 2012, 6:25 am
