Rift Mage looks lame. There, I said it. I'm disliking its major emphasis on this new status effect of "weakening." All weakening does is reduce the damage enemies do for a time.
Interestingly enough, it seems that I was right and most of everyone else (from like 1.5 years back) were wrong! I guessed that Rift mage was going to be like Force mage from DA:2 while everyone thought it had to do with fade magics.
We were both correct and both incorrect. Veilstrike and Pull of the Abyss are basically force mage abilities. Stonefist is completely out of place and a wasted addition. Firestorm is also really randomly placed and I feel like it missed a good opportunity to really make the tree something new.
55 meteors though...Rift is almost worth spec'ing into just for the Focus Ability.