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[LeviathanZero]

Hrm. My Merrill is a bit in Entropy, maxed Spirit, and bits in her specialisation, but I've barely even touched her Blood Magic side, her being able to use all those sustained spells will be damned handy. Could even take the place of Anders as party buff monkey
I may just do this swap and see what I end up with . I'm thinking of respeccing Hawk to Fire rather than Primal so I can make use of all the +Fire damage staves I keep finding, so maybe I should do Merrill at the same time

*Edit*
Anyone know if the Spirit tree's upgrade Death Siphon healing works for Blood Mages?

Modifié par LeviathanZero, 28 mars 2011 - 05:41 .

[Sentox6]

LeviathanZero wrote...
*Edit*
Anyone know if the Spirit tree's upgrade Death Siphon healing works for Blood Mages?

No, it doesn't :\\

Anyway, Merrill is a lot more useful now. Just need a decent build for Anders.

[Swordfishtrombone]

I've tended to use Merrill as a nature/entropy caster, with the cold spells from primal. She's pretty good that way, and if you go the rivalry road with her, she gets great damage resistance too, making her quite durable.

Won't probably hold a candle against a blood mage Merrill, properly specked, though. May have to try that.

[Lumikki]

I don't use blood magic skill in any of my characters ever. It's agaist lore of world setup, for good lawfull characters. So Merril is for me more primal and elemental caster.

Modifié par Lumikki, 29 mars 2011 - 12:19 .

[spudrow2005]

yeah if u try playing her as a conventional mage like say bethany she will get killed really easily if ur not careful since unlike other mages her max dps also needs her to sit in the fray for her AOE nature spells. but if u give her lots of health and plenty of blood mage items (that ur not using if ur blood mage hawke) her casting pool can seriously eclipse a willpower centric build. that being said i usually invest a decent amount of stats into willpower and when that burns out i switch to blood

[DirewolfX]

Use Goad and Armistice with proper tactics on your NPC rogues and BM Merrill can even tank. XD

[Lemmy Kil Hawke]

I never saw Merril as a good choice for the party...looks like i was wrong:).
Its incredible the ways you can build characters, until i red this all i cared about was the main character, i auto lvl up the others.
Guess i´ll look for posts on this matter.
Oh by the way, great post!!

[Blaze_Henryson]

My party will consist of a Rouge Hawke, Isabella (interchangeable when I have to change characters), Anders, and a Blood Mage Merrill.
 
I am currently unsure what path towards spells I should chose for Merrill and Anders...mainly Merrill. For Anders he will be a support, healer (spells for support will include: heal, greater heal, heroic aura, valiant aura, haste, great haste, I am unsure on the offensive side of the ball....I was thinking of e maxing him out in primal).
 
For Merrill she's really not that important till level 7 roles around. For her of course I will get Blood of the First, Elemental Weapons, Arcane Shield or Rock Armor (or both?), and master the whole elemental tree and maybe lighting spells in the primal tree to use when the elemental tree is recharging all their spells so she's basically casting spells non stop (hopefully).
 
Does anyone have any suggestions for other spells to pick for her or Anders or spells in the elemental tree I should leave out such as any upgrades to either fire or ice?  The same question applies for Anders.
 
Here is a list of spells I plan to chose through level 7
      Merrill                                        Anders      
1 Fireball                                          Heal
2 Winter's Grasp                               Greater Heal
3 Elemental Weapon                         Heroic Aura
4 Pyromancer                                   Chain Lightning
5 Fire Storm                                     Rock Armor (Since I will get Galvanism)
6 Arcane Shield or Rock Armor         Chain Reaction
7 Blood of the First                            Haste

[tonnactus]

Arcane shield is nearly worthless(without elemental shield,but armor runes are till better).Normals miss 1 of 5 hits and elites/bosses still connect.Abilities also always hit.Rock armor with galvanisn is the best protection a mage could get.( and upgraded barrier)

If you didnt play on nightmare,both mages could get the full elemental tree without worrieng about friendly fire.

Modifié par tonnactus, 25 avril 2011 - 08:12 .

[Blaze_Henryson]

Thanks for the info....

[Zeevico]

You can actually get merrill (and presumably all mages) to use ALL of the sustainables available to her (including blood of the first) even if she doesn't have the reserved mana to activate them. Weird bug. It depends which order you activate them afaik.

Modifié par Zeevico, 26 avril 2011 - 02:17 .

[Ollymandias]

oops, made a mistake

Modifié par Ollymandias, 26 avril 2011 - 03:45 .

[zerocavities]

I use avelines ability to transfer damage to her from merril