Spellblade. Lightning is my favorite element and it also seems to me as most versatile both gameplay wise (can do both melee and ranged decently while Death Caller has channeled spec ability and ult that likely can be disrupted and Evoker relies on crowd control I suspect many major bosses would be immune to) and elements wise (can synergize with Fire and Lightning abilities, synergizes even with baseline provided abilities like Arcane Shot and -Meteor Azur- Destructive Light and can use according element against vulnerable / resistant enemies easier than 2 other specs that usually have 1 favored element).
Definitely Evoker. Create black hole and stellar dust ? I say yes. I am just disappointed that the element for Evokers is cold. I would have loved for more flexibility, like making the element adjust on the element of the staff/orb
@@repusprimus2872 It seems that combat gives a big place to elemental damages. And so I assume it was simpler to go with "Space is freezing, so cold damage" rather than creating a damage type specific to that one Specialization. Even though, for something "entropic", I would have preferred to have the spells dealing the same elemental damages than the equipped weapon.
I think that you shouldnt pick companions only cause of detonation effects, we could see in some of the official videos that is good to bring lucanis for example with duelist cause he can increase the necrotic dmg on the enemy. So maybe just one character that can detonate and other companion to further improve your "elemental" dmg could be an option too. Maybe Neve can increase your cold dmg.
Probably on harder difficulties you'll want to strategize detonation effects to be efficient but I bet on normal it won't matter THAT much. I believe there are multiple ways to tweak the difficulty settings but maybe I'm thinking of another game. I think since we have one less party companion it should be more flexible to bring who you want because the classic Warrior, Rogue, Mage party is just dull and played out at this point in RPG games. We'll find out soon enough!
Originally I wanted to go for spellblade focused on frost magic, but they unfortunately chose to make specs elemtally focused instead of flexible, so likely not. Pity, I loved playing a Knight Enchanter simply because of the vibe. Not, I think I'll likely go Evoker, but I am really tempted to try Death Caller. Issue is, no heck you won't pick Mournwatch as your background if you're going Death Caller! It's the only option. I was considering playing a Veil Jumper mage, but neither the bonus for critical hits (more rogue focused imo, doubt mages can even make use of it), nor the specializations for mage are flavoured after the Veil Jumpers. That areally bums me out. I can just go Shadow Dragon for a more generic one, or Mourn Watch to go very hard into an aesthetic, but I wanted to be more focused onto magic, the fade, and elven secrets as a dalish mage... Oh well, we'll see.
Same from the backgrounds lords of fortune i like the mosf followed by veil jumpers, but i also do not want to sabotage myself with a bas passiv. I find shadow dragons just to specific background. Maybe have to read more about it, but usually this resistance moenets are very blunt and the outcome is usually worse than it was before. The quote is a bit long but in the mage errant saga there is the following quote: Many of history’s greatest advances have come after times of great disaster, and that fact has led many fools to believe that by provoking disaster, by accelerating catastrophe, they can bring better times. They think that they can harness destruction in the service of creation, rather than putting in the hard work of creation in the first place. There are no shortcuts to making the world a better place. The only path to making the world better is to work towards making the world better.”
What are the hexagon shaped skills in the tree? Is this the return of sustained effects from Origins and DA2?!? As for class, I think a Shadow Dragon spellblade. Knight enchanter and arcane warrior are my favourite subclasses from the previous games. I don’t suppose there are any force/rift mage type abilities though?
I’m torn. I like focusing on electric/lightning but have never really liked melee focused mages. So Spellblade isn’t my goto I guess if there’s plenty of skill points to nab, maybe there’s a way to grab the lightning spells and head into Evoker… If we manage to be swimming in points, maybe Death Caller
I always play rogue or warrior in prett mich every game i play. This is the first time i think I'll play as a mage first.... but probably spell blade so i can still get stabby!
Mage looks super fun and versatile so I definitely need to play as one at least on my second playthrough! All of the specializations look really fun, idk how to choose from them. Also its kind of a bummer if mages don't synergize well with other mage party members.
I will play a mage on my 2nd and/or my 3rd playthrough. Maybe a Shadow Dragon Evoker but I'll have to watch this video again to see if that makes sense. But first I'm going to cut my teeth on an Antivan Crow Rogue.
It was also very popular in Kirkwall streets, although lacking the visual extravagance (Minrathis penchant for flair I guess). Or perhaps someone heard rumors of one Solas from using very similar magic in his time with the Inquisition.
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18 spells? LOL... Only 18? Inquisition had almost 30. That's the reason why the limited the gameplay to only 3 spells and an ultimate... So sad.
I'm not sold on how much range swapping it looks like mages will need (medium vs. melee), but not having resource generation dependent on my reflexes to block/dodge seems like an obvious choice for a first playthrough until I get a feel for the timing.
Yeah I was hoping for a viable staff/ranged mage, but all mechanics seem to incentivize melee. Staff projectile attacks have slow travel so it's easily dodged by enemies. They reeeeally don't want you to be far. Also bummed there's no ranged takedown option when DA2 had it (exclusively for Ogres tho).
I'm leaning toward playing as a mage. I've played DA as rogues in the past but I'm looking for a different experience this time around. Not sure about the specialties. I want to get a better understanding of the synergies for my Rook as well as with my companions. Still thinking about which faction or race to play as. Maybe a Qunari as that will be different for me. Here's an idea for a series of vids: Take one race at a time and go through all of the options for that race. I'd definitely watch that.
the fact that they not only removed blood magic but the replacement for blood magic as well pushes this over the red line for me. they seriously put in a "death caller" with undead minions and then told us to go to heck. ive been waiting 10 years for this i can wait 1 more to buy it 50% off next year, or borrow a copy
Lol, Inquisition didn't have blood magic. Blood Magic is cool but it has NEVER made sense for the player character to use it, especially in Dragon Age 2.
You really think a Templar running around in Tevinter, a land controlled by mages with ZERO Templars and ZERO Mage Circles, makes sense?! Come on, don't be weird about this. If they kept the exact same classes with the exact same specilizations, people would now be saying, "Same stuff as before. Does nothing new."
@@mandu6665 I’m they have templars dude. And I don’t remember people complaining about the classes in the last three games ( I know I didn’t when I picked reaver multiple times) and I was just why that is all
I love how there's literally one romance companion if you are a straight male who isn't into midgets and it basically locks you out of playing the mage class cause of the way synergies work and you have only 2 companions in the damn game. Then there's also the fact that the only cool male companion seems to be Zevran V2, so you're basically left with the game making the choice for you - be the boring ass fighter class. Yay.
Do you just go around to every video about DAV and repeat that you don’t like it? Wouldn’t it be more sensible to just move on and find something you like rather than wasting your own time repeating yourself?
@@hern7213 you’re watching a preview of the mage class to see if you’ll play it. Your comment says nobody should play the game. I concluded that you don’t want anyone to play the game, so what are you doing watching this video? There’s no point in even responding to you because you don’t have the thinking capacity to understand anyone except yourself.
The algorithm brought us together, and I'm loving your coverage of Veilguard. The STERMSurge edit made me laugh aloud. 😂 I am definitely playing a Mage first, but I'm not sure of which specialization. They each look really good. I can even see respec'ing from one to another to better adapt to the situation, though that's probably more effort than I'd generally be willing to expend.
Personally I'm leaning towards Shadow Dragon Spellblade, since throughout the games I've been a Fereldan Grey Warden, a Fereldan-borne Champion of Kirkwall, and an Ostwick Inquisitor, all of them mages, and I like the combination of physical power mixed with magical effects, and feel that Tevinter was never really physically explored in the previous games, only talked about.
I guess spellblade with some fire and lighting.. I’m disappointed there’s no Druid-like nature magic or shape shifting like from origins. Oh well I guess a Druid class would’ve been redundant with there already being a hybrid class
All mages look almost the exact same in the way they play. None of the specializations seem much different than the other. Not to mention 90% of the skill tree is passives.
Good God man! I pre ordered this game thinking that an old casual DA fan like me could enjoy it. After your video Im starting to feel like this is 20 years ago, and Im playing MTG for the first time.
Shadow Dragon Evoker! I love crowd controlling enemies so my companions can pick them off. I also planned on bringing Davrin and Lucanis for my mage so this works out perfectly!
100% playing a mage and at the moment i'm leaning towards Spellblade, i love lightning affinity in every game and a spellcaster that is affective in close range and long range is right up my alley
So like all the previous classes, the best companions are...(antecipation) the companions that are from a diferent class (SURPRISE!) I hope there is still some reason to bring them along, because with combat being such a big focus, if they suck at fighting you will probably have to leave them at camp. That all being said, I think this is the first time in a long time that the mage class looks fun to me.
I was waiting to see how mages would play to decide if I was going to get this game… I’m not going to get this game. Dodging and melee weapons as a mage? Get the fuck out of here. Why can’t they just make an RPG, why force action gameplay into everything???
I find it very odd that they want to give players the freedom to pick any background but they flavour the specialisations in a way that seems to completely ignore your decision...? 🤨
@@TragoudistrosMPH You're 100% free to choose any specialisation. I'm just talking about the text descriptions of some of the abilities/specialisations. They lean very heavily towards certain backgrounds. For example 6:41 "Trained on Minrathous streets, the Shadow Dragon Evoker..."
Ooh interesting. Mage has an interesting core moveset and different weapon sets that looks fun. But the skills here are I think a bit limited unfortunately. For example, the first ultimate ability is just a more powerful version of the normal ranged ability, and I was expecting some sort of fire-based offensive ult, but the only offensive ult is Spellblade. Wasn't expecting Evoker ult to be crowd control. In comparison to the Warriors, Reaper has a tornado ult that both siphons health and pulls them close, which basically is the equivalent of the Evoker and Death Caller ults . Not to mention it looks like 3 of the mage skills is a version of a Rogue / Warrior skill (corrupted ground for example has a warrior version), and one skill (Frost Nova) can be equipped by any class as a rune ability. It looks like Warriors got the fire abilties. Ngl I'm gonna miss mage abilities from the DAI. I was really hoping for an ult similar to Firestorm. Compared to Warriors and Rogues, the mage abilities looks basic and less varied.
From the captures we have seen, all the ultimates deal the same amount of damage, so there's no such thing as offensive vs cc ults. Their only difference between them is how that damage is delivered (amount of hits) and the extra effects (such as different afflictions or pulling enemies, etc.) And BTW, mages do get a Meteor spell that will have great synergy with the spellblade kit.
I agree with you! Mage combat looks fun and very active. At the same time I would have wanted to have an option to be more of like a caster class. I kinda wish evoker to be more focused on offensive elemental spells ala sorcerers in dragon’s dogma but I guess it would be hard to implement based on how they made combat in Veilguard since they seem to be really focused on it being more action melee combat regardless of what role you choose. Still very excited for the game though!! I hope they give us a chance to play a demo to try out the different classes before release but for now I’m leaning towards warrior for my first playthrough based on what I’ve seen of combat! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@SethKyros Yes there are no labels, but there are clearly ults that lean on one or the other though. My point was only one of the mage ults is a burst offensive ult for mages, unlike say for Warriors that has two (Slayer and Champion). Firestorm like the focus ability in Inquisition feels like it's begging to be an ult, but I guess they gave a version of it to the Champion ult.
@@Mythos131 That’s funny I played DA since DAO do people forget that this series was a medevil dark fantasy that theses new peeps turned this game into is sad I just hope the story is good and long.
@@fliplife67 I didn't find it overly dark--I certainly didn't play that way but I'm sure one could play more that way if they chose to. Even with Veilguard, we don't know how dark one will be able to play, but I will be playing chaotic good so I don't care myself.
What specialization are you picking?
Spellblade all day.
Death Caller, for life drain... though Evoker looks cooler (and I live control) and Spellblade looks more fun because I like agility 😅
Spellblade. Lightning is my favorite element and it also seems to me as most versatile both gameplay wise (can do both melee and ranged decently while Death Caller has channeled spec ability and ult that likely can be disrupted and Evoker relies on crowd control I suspect many major bosses would be immune to) and elements wise (can synergize with Fire and Lightning abilities, synergizes even with baseline provided abilities like Arcane Shot and -Meteor Azur- Destructive Light and can use according element against vulnerable / resistant enemies easier than 2 other specs that usually have 1 favored element).
I really, wanted to be a spellblade; but, I prefer swords, to daggers. Can a spellblade, use swords too?
Yes
Definitely Evoker.
Create black hole and stellar dust ? I say yes.
I am just disappointed that the element for Evokers is cold. I would have loved for more flexibility, like making the element adjust on the element of the staff/orb
I really like cold or any element that slows down enemies compared to any other element
Evoker looks very much like the Mass Effect 2 Adept, which was easily the best class in that game.
I'm so confused by it being cold dmg. It looks more like chaos or shadow dmg.
@@repusprimus2872 It seems that combat gives a big place to elemental damages. And so I assume it was simpler to go with "Space is freezing, so cold damage" rather than creating a damage type specific to that one Specialization.
Even though, for something "entropic", I would have preferred to have the spells dealing the same elemental damages than the equipped weapon.
Spellblade Antivan Crow
Love it! spellblade looks really fun.
let's goooooooo
Who you romancing?
Definitely spellblade 🙌 annoyed we can't use a sword though
11:23 Dagger & Orb Takeoldown!
I think that you shouldnt pick companions only cause of detonation effects, we could see in some of the official videos that is good to bring lucanis for example with duelist cause he can increase the necrotic dmg on the enemy. So maybe just one character that can detonate and other companion to further improve your "elemental" dmg could be an option too. Maybe Neve can increase your cold dmg.
Probably on harder difficulties you'll want to strategize detonation effects to be efficient but I bet on normal it won't matter THAT much. I believe there are multiple ways to tweak the difficulty settings but maybe I'm thinking of another game. I think since we have one less party companion it should be more flexible to bring who you want because the classic Warrior, Rogue, Mage party is just dull and played out at this point in RPG games. We'll find out soon enough!
I thought I'd go with Spellblade but Evoker also looks really nice. I'll have to play and see whether I like staff or melee more
Originally I wanted to go for spellblade focused on frost magic, but they unfortunately chose to make specs elemtally focused instead of flexible, so likely not. Pity, I loved playing a Knight Enchanter simply because of the vibe.
Not, I think I'll likely go Evoker, but I am really tempted to try Death Caller. Issue is, no heck you won't pick Mournwatch as your background if you're going Death Caller! It's the only option.
I was considering playing a Veil Jumper mage, but neither the bonus for critical hits (more rogue focused imo, doubt mages can even make use of it), nor the specializations for mage are flavoured after the Veil Jumpers. That areally bums me out.
I can just go Shadow Dragon for a more generic one, or Mourn Watch to go very hard into an aesthetic, but I wanted to be more focused onto magic, the fade, and elven secrets as a dalish mage... Oh well, we'll see.
In the progression video, runes can change the elemental damage of abilities. Not sure if this includes ults though.
Same from the backgrounds lords of fortune i like the mosf followed by veil jumpers, but i also do not want to sabotage myself with a bas passiv.
I find shadow dragons just to specific background. Maybe have to read more about it, but usually this resistance moenets are very blunt and the outcome is usually worse than it was before.
The quote is a bit long but in the mage errant saga there is the following quote:
Many of history’s greatest advances have come after times of great disaster, and that fact has led many fools to believe that by provoking disaster, by accelerating catastrophe, they can bring better times. They think that they can harness destruction in the service of creation, rather than putting in the hard work of creation in the first place. There are no shortcuts to making the world a better place. The only path to making the world better is to work towards making the world better.”
Spellblade :D melee and magic are so cool when combine in one
Spellblade shadow dragon it is.
Btw you just earned a new sub. ;)
Welcome to the club! 👍
What are the hexagon shaped skills in the tree? Is this the return of sustained effects from Origins and DA2?!?
As for class, I think a Shadow Dragon spellblade. Knight enchanter and arcane warrior are my favourite subclasses from the previous games. I don’t suppose there are any force/rift mage type abilities though?
Can’t wait to be a spell blade from the crows! Always wanted to be an Antivan Crow after meeting Zevran
Great video I can’t wait to see what you can make
That Spellblade unltimate which conjures an exploding eagle of lightning is Rule of Cool.
first time mage on the channel, love the info and vibes. but how do you expect me to NOT bring Neve and Bellara everywhere!? have you seen them!?
Neve is my favourite companion, I totally understand!
The ultimate kinda reminds me of comet azur! im definitely picking mage but i can’t decide between evoker or spellblade
I’m torn. I like focusing on electric/lightning but have never really liked melee focused mages. So Spellblade isn’t my goto
I guess if there’s plenty of skill points to nab, maybe there’s a way to grab the lightning spells and head into Evoker… If we manage to be swimming in points, maybe Death Caller
Evoker since I like the spell effects and cold spells lol
Evoker for the first run for sure. It’s the mage class closest to my preference.
I always play rogue or warrior in prett mich every game i play. This is the first time i think I'll play as a mage first.... but probably spell blade so i can still get stabby!
Mage looks super fun and versatile so I definitely need to play as one at least on my second playthrough! All of the specializations look really fun, idk how to choose from them. Also its kind of a bummer if mages don't synergize well with other mage party members.
"MAY-lay."
Spellblade skill kinda looking like a Chidori for a sec
Lightning elemental spell blade 👍🏾
I will play a mage on my 2nd and/or my 3rd playthrough. Maybe a Shadow Dragon Evoker but I'll have to watch this video again to see if that makes sense. But first I'm going to cut my teeth on an Antivan Crow Rogue.
I'm going Rogue first as well. What specialization are you picking?
@@norzza Leaning Dualist
Crazy that they teach you how to summon a black hole on the streets of Minrathous
It was also very popular in Kirkwall streets, although lacking the visual extravagance (Minrathis penchant for flair I guess). Or perhaps someone heard rumors of one Solas from using very similar magic in his time with the Inquisition.
18 spells? LOL... Only 18? Inquisition had almost 30. That's the reason why the limited the gameplay to only 3 spells and an ultimate... So sad.
Yeah it's shit I can't lie, just hope it feels good when playing
Spellblade but only for the spells and defensive perks since I plan on focusing on the staff
Evoker Veil Guard, let's go
The detonates are all basicly the same just a big bomb doesn't matter which primer and detonator you used?
I'm not sold on how much range swapping it looks like mages will need (medium vs. melee), but not having resource generation dependent on my reflexes to block/dodge seems like an obvious choice for a first playthrough until I get a feel for the timing.
Yeah I was hoping for a viable staff/ranged mage, but all mechanics seem to incentivize melee. Staff projectile attacks have slow travel so it's easily dodged by enemies. They reeeeally don't want you to be far. Also bummed there's no ranged takedown option when DA2 had it (exclusively for Ogres tho).
Spellblade for sure
I'm leaning toward playing as a mage. I've played DA as rogues in the past but I'm looking for a different experience this time around.
Not sure about the specialties. I want to get a better understanding of the synergies for my Rook as well as with my companions.
Still thinking about which faction or race to play as. Maybe a Qunari as that will be different for me.
Here's an idea for a series of vids: Take one race at a time and go through all of the options for that race. I'd definitely watch that.
spellblade for sure
Spellblade shadow dragon
the fact that they not only removed blood magic but the replacement for blood magic as well pushes this over the red line for me. they seriously put in a "death caller" with undead minions and then told us to go to heck.
ive been waiting 10 years for this i can wait 1 more to buy it 50% off next year, or borrow a copy
Lol, Inquisition didn't have blood magic. Blood Magic is cool but it has NEVER made sense for the player character to use it, especially in Dragon Age 2.
@@mandu6665 you couldnt even read the 2nd half of my 1st sentence bro why even bother responding
No, makes are never fun to play in these games
I don’t know why got rid of their classic classes from the three previous games to something similar to Lost Ark or DFO?
You really think a Templar running around in Tevinter, a land controlled by mages with ZERO Templars and ZERO Mage Circles, makes sense?! Come on, don't be weird about this. If they kept the exact same classes with the exact same specilizations, people would now be saying, "Same stuff as before. Does nothing new."
@@mandu6665 I’m they have templars dude. And I don’t remember people complaining about the classes in the last three games ( I know I didn’t when I picked reaver multiple times) and I was just why that is all
1:29.... is that Cole?
How did rpg comabt turn into an arcade game? It's such a shame.
Decided to pass on this one.
But no blood mago...
Blood mage should be its own class. Hope we see it again one day.
As in any dragon age game really meh on the subclasses i guess evoker.
Not playing this game. Playing Origins again
Thanks for informing us about 15 years too late. Move along, tourist.
@@mandu6665 Thanks, gatekeeper.
I really am not even sure i want this game at all after all the bullshit in it like the woke everything
I love how there's literally one romance companion if you are a straight male who isn't into midgets and it basically locks you out of playing the mage class cause of the way synergies work and you have only 2 companions in the damn game. Then there's also the fact that the only cool male companion seems to be Zevran V2, so you're basically left with the game making the choice for you - be the boring ass fighter class. Yay.
You should not play at all - that's the ultimate answer.
Do you just go around to every video about DAV and repeat that you don’t like it? Wouldn’t it be more sensible to just move on and find something you like rather than wasting your own time repeating yourself?
@@bambi5738 How did you manage to conclude I follow every video?
@@hern7213 you’re watching a preview of the mage class to see if you’ll play it. Your comment says nobody should play the game. I concluded that you don’t want anyone to play the game, so what are you doing watching this video? There’s no point in even responding to you because you don’t have the thinking capacity to understand anyone except yourself.
@@bambi5738 I feel obligated to open other people's eyes to the crap they are doing - pushing deviated agendas in games.
@@hern7213please explain what agenda is being pushed that has not been in each game since origins, quickly.
The algorithm brought us together, and I'm loving your coverage of Veilguard.
The STERMSurge edit made me laugh aloud. 😂
I am definitely playing a Mage first, but I'm not sure of which specialization. They each look really good. I can even see respec'ing from one to another to better adapt to the situation, though that's probably more effort than I'd generally be willing to expend.
Thanks! 😊
I love that we can freely respec, I'll be trying all the specialization as well.
Personally I'm leaning towards Shadow Dragon Spellblade, since throughout the games I've been a Fereldan Grey Warden, a Fereldan-borne Champion of Kirkwall, and an Ostwick Inquisitor, all of them mages, and I like the combination of physical power mixed with magical effects, and feel that Tevinter was never really physically explored in the previous games, only talked about.
Why didn’t you show the traits? That’s the number one thing I want to see from the skill trees and nobody is posting it.
Spellblade Lord of Fortune - Ready to bring the wrath of the storm to those wannabe Elvhen gods XD
I guess spellblade with some fire and lighting.. I’m disappointed there’s no Druid-like nature magic or shape shifting like from origins. Oh well I guess a Druid class would’ve been redundant with there already being a hybrid class
All mages look almost the exact same in the way they play. None of the specializations seem much different than the other. Not to mention 90% of the skill tree is passives.
Good God man! I pre ordered this game thinking that an old casual DA fan like me could enjoy it.
After your video Im starting to feel like this is 20 years ago, and Im playing MTG for the first time.
Shadow Dragon Evoker! I love crowd controlling enemies so my companions can pick them off. I also planned on bringing Davrin and Lucanis for my mage so this works out perfectly!
Going as a Evoker Mage with the Shadow Dragon background. To fully exploit companion combos and buff the mana regen.
100% playing a mage and at the moment i'm leaning towards Spellblade, i love lightning affinity in every game and a spellcaster that is affective in close range and long range is right up my alley
Oh these videos were great! Can u do the same for the companion abilities? Wanna see what synergies there are for each class.
You might want to check back tomorrow 😉. (or the day after, I haven't finished putting it together yet!)
Death caller for me, i do like anything that deals necrotic/poison type damage
OK, the fact that I get a Kamehameha as my initial ultimate sold me. Mage it is. Going battle mage
i think i will be grey warden spellblade
Spellblade
So like all the previous classes, the best companions are...(antecipation) the companions that are from a diferent class (SURPRISE!)
I hope there is still some reason to bring them along, because with combat being such a big focus, if they suck at fighting you will probably have to leave them at camp.
That all being said, I think this is the first time in a long time that the mage class looks fun to me.
The caveman in me will bring three warriors for that BIG BONK. I'm tired of Tank, DPS, Magic in RPG games.
Spellblade, Shadow Dragons.
Neve is gonna love you!
@@norzza HA! Will she now? I'm for it.
Spellblade MournWatch
I'll gladly take Harding along :3
3:35 true what screams more secret resistance armee than evoker.
Sometimes Mage fight reminds me Harry Potter game :D
This is the video I have been waiting on.
STERM! 😂 Love your videos! I'm leaning towards spellblade when I play as a mage. Mage is the class I feel most uncertain about though.
Sterm surge is my favourite ability 😉. Spellblade is definitely my Mage pick as well!
Lord of Fortune Evoker but idk what race to be yet
Elf! 👍
Evoker but spellblade looks intesting too. Reminds me of mystic spearhand in Dragon's Dogma 2
I can see that! Spearhand was my favourite class in DD2.
@@norzza i liked the sorceror so the evoker is similar. I liked the magic archer as well.
I was waiting to see how mages would play to decide if I was going to get this game… I’m not going to get this game. Dodging and melee weapons as a mage? Get the fuck out of here. Why can’t they just make an RPG, why force action gameplay into everything???
Love Gish characters so leaning towards the spellblade.
I find it very odd that they want to give players the freedom to pick any background but they flavour the specialisations in a way that seems to completely ignore your decision...? 🤨
Wouldn't we not be free to choose if the specialization was closely tied to our background?
@@TragoudistrosMPH You're 100% free to choose any specialisation. I'm just talking about the text descriptions of some of the abilities/specialisations. They lean very heavily towards certain backgrounds. For example 6:41 "Trained on Minrathous streets, the Shadow Dragon Evoker..."
Ooh interesting. Mage has an interesting core moveset and different weapon sets that looks fun. But the skills here are I think a bit limited unfortunately. For example, the first ultimate ability is just a more powerful version of the normal ranged ability, and I was expecting some sort of fire-based offensive ult, but the only offensive ult is Spellblade. Wasn't expecting Evoker ult to be crowd control. In comparison to the Warriors, Reaper has a tornado ult that both siphons health and pulls them close, which basically is the equivalent of the Evoker and Death Caller ults .
Not to mention it looks like 3 of the mage skills is a version of a Rogue / Warrior skill (corrupted ground for example has a warrior version), and one skill (Frost Nova) can be equipped by any class as a rune ability. It looks like Warriors got the fire abilties. Ngl I'm gonna miss mage abilities from the DAI. I was really hoping for an ult similar to Firestorm. Compared to Warriors and Rogues, the mage abilities looks basic and less varied.
From the captures we have seen, all the ultimates deal the same amount of damage, so there's no such thing as offensive vs cc ults. Their only difference between them is how that damage is delivered (amount of hits) and the extra effects (such as different afflictions or pulling enemies, etc.)
And BTW, mages do get a Meteor spell that will have great synergy with the spellblade kit.
I agree with you! Mage combat looks fun and very active. At the same time I would have wanted to have an option to be more of like a caster class. I kinda wish evoker to be more focused on offensive elemental spells ala sorcerers in dragon’s dogma but I guess it would be hard to implement based on how they made combat in Veilguard since they seem to be really focused on it being more action melee combat regardless of what role you choose. Still very excited for the game though!! I hope they give us a chance to play a demo to try out the different classes before release but for now I’m leaning towards warrior for my first playthrough based on what I’ve seen of combat! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@SethKyros Yes there are no labels, but there are clearly ults that lean on one or the other though. My point was only one of the mage ults is a burst offensive ult for mages, unlike say for Warriors that has two (Slayer and Champion). Firestorm like the focus ability in Inquisition feels like it's begging to be an ult, but I guess they gave a version of it to the Champion ult.
The mage is so different now, such a different animal compared to Inquisition. I love it
Dont buy this crap
BioWare failed to evolve the game play this mage class U should be able to use magic without a wand and staff also where is black magic.
Black magic? Looks like we got a dedicated fan here - a true apostate so it seems
@@41r39 Well this series was a dark fantasy so maybe they should have brought it back.
@@fliplife67 No thanks, maybe you should go follow another game more to your liking.
@@Mythos131 That’s funny I played DA since DAO do people forget that this series was a medevil dark fantasy that theses new peeps turned this game into is sad I just hope the story is good and long.
@@fliplife67 I didn't find it overly dark--I certainly didn't play that way but I'm sure one could play more that way if they chose to. Even with Veilguard, we don't know how dark one will be able to play, but I will be playing chaotic good so I don't care myself.