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[BananaDePijama]

For RIFT MAGE which is better?

[HEROx Divine]

Better for what? Be more specific please

[Elhanan]

Both are equal for Attack bonuses, while Magic helps break Barriers and Willpower increases Magic Resist. In this case, I would say splitting them is a fair notion.

[sleasye74]

divide equally between magic and willpower, just use dragon webbing if you can for cloth utility or use other mats that give the bonus for both stats

[Exalus]

willpower is generally vastly more desirable than magic for a rift mage considering ranged and magic damage tend to be the most dangerous things for a mage.

[sleasye74]

Imo, magic best serves damage specialist and willpower best serves support and control specialist
I wish willpower still had an effect on mana

[Homer2101]

This post explains what all of the stats do.

 

Magic increases attack (general damage) by 0.5% and barrier damage by 1% per point.

 

Willpower increases attack by 0.5% and magic resistance by 0.5% per point.

 

For barrier damage you have Dispel, which takes off a huge chunk of enemy barrier and also reduces their damage, which is awesome against high-level enemies. Damage reduction is not as useful as it seems, but it will still save your mage's keister if you're playing on Nightmare or something and eat a fire mine or something. So Willpower is superior to Magic if you have a choice, but odds are that either will work most of the time.

 

Damage resistances are not as useful as they appear because they are applied AFTER damage reduction from armor. For example, if you have 50 armor and 10% damage reduction, and take 100 damage, the 10% damage reduction will apply to the 50 damage that leaks through your armor, not the initial 100.

[PapaCharlie9]

Until the Descent DLC, the barrier damage buff of Magic was pretty worthless. Now, I may have to dump my all Willpower stuff for all Magic stuff.

Rather than split the difference, just make one set of each! It's not like mats are particularly scarce once you get to Skyhold. Every mage should be carrying a Golf Bag of Holding for all of their Tier 4 staves.

[mesiasmith]

For my mage build, I go Magic/Willpower on 30/70.

Magic stat look nice on paper but I feel Willpower much better with the benefit for magic defense.

[SomeoneStoleMyName]

If Nightmare: All in willpower for support/control mages and 50/50 for DPS/hybrid mages.  

[Kage]

If you dont have access to dispel or spell purge, and you are playing on nightmare or with promoted guys (trespasser trials), then I would suggest to use ALL magic.

Constant barriers can be a pain.

[squidney2k1]

I agree.

- Without Dispel or Spell Purge, go with 70% Magic/30% Willpower.
- If you have Spell Purge or Dispel in your party, then flip and go 30% Magic/70% Willpower

There's nothing more annoying than dealing with a tough enemy who's at 5% health, and then see them shoot up to a full barrier while your party eats Fire Mines and Arcane Horror barrages.

[actionhero112]

If you're building your mage to tank elemental* hits go with willpower.

 

If you're building your mage to focus on offense, go with magic. 

 

*Magic defense apparently doesn't work with spirit damage

[VilniusNastavnik]

Just go with willpower if you have a support mage in your party with dispell. Else, split between the two. Though magic resistance is not hard to hit the cap on. Dorian has 80% on him. I always travel with 2 mages when I am a mage. Means I can focus on being a glass cannon whilst dorian focus' on support and debuffs.