Mage

Game: Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Specializations: Death Caller, Evoker, Spellblade
Ultimate: Destructive Light

Mages rain down fury with spells that incinerate, freeze, electrocute, and crush. Some cast from afar, while others prefer close-quarters combat.

The mage retains the previous games’ magic recuperation mechanic, which means magic will simply replenish over time. Of course, there will be skills and passive abilities that will ameliorate the rate of magic return. This means that mages that are more focused on ranged combat can gain magic from safety — away from the heated battle.

Mages also have a weapon that we haven’t seen before in the series, the orb and dagger. The orb will float and collide with enemies to do damage, and build up “arcane mark”. When “arcane mark” is full, then the dagger does critical damage. They can still use their magic staff for ranged combat, but now they can switch to the dagger and orb for when enemies close the gap. Most of the subclasses typically cater more towards one of the class’s weapons.

  • Mortal Concentration
    • Sustaining your Ranged attack gradually increases its damage output the longer it is active, to a maximum of 3 seconds.
  • Mind Blast
    • While Defending, consume 50 Mana to unleash a shockwave 6 meters in all directions. Deals damage based on your equipped Staff.
  • Fade Strike
    • Use your speed to unleash a powerful attack with any weapon after using Fade Step.
    • Also unlocks an additional follow-up attack while Sprinting.

Damage: 2,416 Fire
Summon a concentrated beam of primal elemental energy.
Deals damage each second to all enemies caught in the beam while applying Burning.

Share this article:
Mila Grish
Mila Grish

Dedicated contributor at EIP Gaming and a part-time collector of books she will never have time to actually read. Jumps on the newest releases just as quickly as on the uncovered dusty collections from the basement. For her, shiny graphics can never be an excuse to not have a polished player experience or an immersive story.

Articles: 459
Subscribe
Notify of
guest

0 Comments
Most Voted
Newest Oldest
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments