Mags time

My current mage is a Qunari Knight-Enchanter with the passive that gives her barrier every time she damages an enemy with a spell. The attack she uses most is Chain Lightning, which hits several enemies at once and therefore works well with that passive.

I was planning to combine that with the passive that makes barriers take longer to decay, the masterwork that builds Guard every time the user lands a hit, and... either the masterwork that gives a chance to use Chain Lightning every time you hit or the masterwork that gives you a chance to use Hidden Blades. (I'm leaning towards the latter, because it does more damage and because it lets me score more total hits if the enemy's alone.)

I'd considered making her a set of silverite armor using a schematic that only warriors can use without silverite, since that would make her even more durable, but I prefer having mage armor and crafting it out of materials that boost her magic stat.

My canon mage was a Storm mage (personally I just love the electricity tree in general when playing a mage). Took pretty much everything from the Spirit tree as well (In my mind she was healer and that was the closest I could get - plus gotta love defensive passives) If there was a Healer spec she would have taken that, but it wasn't so she took Knight Enchanter. Had some (headcanon) reasons for taking that one, but nothing that really had to do with gameplay or mechanics. It worked out well for her though. Don't remember what all she took from other two trees, except I know she took fade step (as well as maybe winter's grasp and mana surge) from Winter; if I took anything from Inferno it was probably just enough to get flashpoint - I usually had Dorian with me and he was built as a PyroNecromancer.