#mage specializations

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Maybe I’m weird. But when I play Inquisition I like to spec all my mages in one specific tree, with the exception of the barrier spell and specializations. Like I put Dorian as specifically fire spells, Vivienne as ice spells, Solas as spirit, etc. Etc. To me, it just feels natural for a mage to hone in on one specific school of magic. I try to also do that with DA2 whenever I’m a mage. But Origins I just pick whatever spells.

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   So durning my first play through as a f!amell in origins I gave her 2 specializations one was spirit healer and the other was blood magic, an I have to say it was the best choice I could have ever made! It was so much fun playing with those two classes!            

 I’ve always thought of specializations of magic being like fields of medicine or anthropology: each one so sprawling and diversified that even the best mages are only competent in one or two areas. I can just imagine Solas, Dorian, and Vivienne standing outside a sealed ruin like, “Right. Anyone have a degree in Black Age talismans? Summer internship maybe? Great. Glad we hiked fifty miles in our plaidweave then.”  

pisces: rift mage