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[Stardusk78]

With a 20% cooldown reduction, martyr and 30% damage bonus he is insane. You can just keep on hitting martyr over and over and spam Tempest again and again. Anyone ever try?

[MJF JD]

merrill blood mage works better for me, load up on sustainables and then hit blood mage, shes the closest thing to trailer hawke you can find.

[RagingCyclone]

I missed Bethany when she left after Act 1, and when I got her back towards the end of Act 3, she easily outshined the other mages. Fights with her in the party took about 1/3 the effort than those when she was missing.

[Stardusk78]

MJF JD wrote...

merrill blood mage works better for me, load up on sustainables and then hit blood mage, shes the closest thing to trailer hawke you can find.

Are you kidding? Anders has better damage, better cooldowns....Merril is nice but Anders is King.

[MJF JD]

Stardusk78 wrote...

MJF JD wrote...

merrill blood mage works better for me, load up on sustainables and then hit blood mage, shes the closest thing to trailer hawke you can find.

Are you kidding? Anders has better damage, better cooldowns....Merril is nice but Anders is King.

merril can take about as much damage as a warrior, anders is a softy.

[SlamminHams]

Merrill and Anders are pretty equivalent in my eyes, with Merrill being more stout.

Merrill has the benefit of never needing Willpower, being able to stack sustained abilities up to 100%, and generally taking less damage because of her sustains.

Anders, on the otherhand, still needs a bit of Willpower for Martyr to give him any workable chunk of Mana and he takes damage while he does it. He also takes a WHOLE lot more damage while in Vengeance (Damage Resistance can go Negative).

In my mind, they both can spam cast on end towards the end of the game, it's just Anders has to take breaks here or there if he doesn't get infused with the auto-heal thing.

[sevenplusone]

It's too bad damage mages are outclassed by ranged rogues in every single facet of the game.

[sillymonkboy]

Merrill > Anders.

As a test, I had a three wave fight where Merrill obliterated an entire wave, ranked the second wave solo while they slowly died and she constantly regenerated, then smoke the third wave just like the first.

She is obscenely powerful if built correctly.

[Altima Darkspells]

I don't care. I don't like Anders.

La, la, la, I can't hear you. La, la, la.

On topic, though, Anders has a bad habit of turning into ludicrous gibs if anyone happens to target him while he remains in Vengeance mode, and his Spirit Healer-esque line is strictly inferior to Hawke's version.

Sadly, if Merrill had access to the Creation Tree, I don't think anyone would even argue about who is the king of the mage's (significantly smaller) hill.

[Raiil]

Anders is my pew pewer in game- my mage focuses on crowd control and healing when need be.


And boy, does Blonde love aggro. D:

[Mifune013]

sevenplusone wrote...

It's too bad damage mages are outclassed by ranged rogues in every single facet of the game.

Yay! Like healing! And holds! And party buffs! Man, I love my ranger rogues party buff that gives them elemental resistance, and the other one that gives bonuses to their armor...

[sevenplusone]

Mifune013 wrote...

sevenplusone wrote...

It's too bad damage mages are outclassed by ranged rogues in every single facet of the game.

Yay! Like healing! And holds! And party buffs! Man, I love my ranger rogues party buff that gives them elemental resistance, and the other one that gives bonuses to their armor...

If you're getting heals and auras on a damage mage, then you're better off just running him support/CC mage and grabbing a ranged rogue or 3.

Getting support abilites on a damage mage is just a bad idea. Leave support to the supporters, and damage to the damage dealers.

[Harley_Dude]

The longer fights seem to favor Merrill for me. I rebuilt her with points in everything that gets a bonus with dual hand Hawke. Taunt enemy > Stagger enemy > Electrocute enemy > Freeze enemy > Shatter enemy. Anders crushes the first wave but if he gets surrounded he usually dies due to long cooldown on heal. I seem to have a glitch in his tactics with using heal and health pots where the health pot dissappears. Using both of them with Isabella works pretty good if you are the tank.

[viverravid]

 Merril as blood mage is legendary and she can tank. Or at least off-tank.

Don't think Mr Vengeance can do that.

EDIT: I get that bug with "Use Item" tactics too. Every now and then the item field goes blank. Might have something to do with running out of health pots maybe? Not sure.

Modifié par viverravid, 17 mars 2011 - 07:33 .

[Boss Fog]

Merril IS a beast, she tanked Meredith for a while during the last fight and barely took any dmg.

[Mifune013]

sevenplusone wrote...

Mifune013 wrote...

sevenplusone wrote...

It's too bad damage mages are outclassed by ranged rogues in every single facet of the game.

Yay! Like healing! And holds! And party buffs! Man, I love my ranger rogues party buff that gives them elemental resistance, and the other one that gives bonuses to their armor...

If you're getting heals and auras on a damage mage, then you're better off just running him support/CC mage and grabbing a ranged rogue or 3.

Getting support abilites on a damage mage is just a bad idea. Leave support to the supporters, and damage to the damage dealers.

If that's your argument, then let me point out that Mages have access to two long last AoE abilities while Ranger Rogues only have one. Not to meantion a fully upgraded Walling Bomb in a large crowd is just you sitting there watching things explode.

[SuicidalBaby]

anders wins dps race vs single targets
merril wins aoe and gets stupid with health

Modifié par SuicidialBaby, 17 mars 2011 - 10:33 .

[atheelogos]

Valentia X wrote...


And boy, does Blonde love aggro. D:

I know he has more aggro than my warriors! Frustrating to say the least.