Magic in DA4

Aha, I see you, hello there, Mage topic. Here's my general take.

As noted in the Rogue one, I really don't want to see hybrid classes, although a few a Specializations giving a little bit of overlap would be fine. On that note, I would like to see the further "hybridization" of Knight-Enchanters and Arcane Warriors. The former was a neat take, and a much more nicely "Mage-y" feel, but really hurt for still being staff-restricted. In particular, letting an AI handle a KE in Inquisition was kind of a dumpster fire, until Trespasser improved it slightly with the Blade of Tidarion (but still left only one, rather less-than-amazing weapon option). Improved AI could help instead, of course, but, hey, ¿por qué no los dos?

And of course, it's Tevinter, so I want a Blood Magic Specialization. But I want Blood Magic with consequences, whether that's dealing with a Demon (and in a personal way, no fair just throwing Connor under the bus), or whether that's repulsing individuals who hold a higher moral ground, or both, but there should be a real feeling of power, with a real clear understanding that getting it is a tradeoff.

On the non-Specialization front, I didn't like how DAI reduced the offensive capabilities to the standard RPG Fire/Ice/Lightning approach. Slimming all three into a single "Elemental" tree would be my ideal, along with Spirit, Creation, and Entropy trees like we saw in Origins and DA2. And Creation should definitely have some healing again, but more along the lines of DA2 healing; something moderate and infrequent, as an emergency button. Heck, bringing back the DA2 Creation tree more or less exactly as it was (maybe, maybe with some twinks to Haste, I dislike temp-buffs), as it was already in a darn good place.

I really, really hope the magic system in 4 is better, and offers more choices than Fire, Ice, and Electricity.

Nothing is more boring than when a fantasy setting has magic, and devolves it into just Elemental stuff.

It's magic, you can have so much creative freedom with it. I atleast want my Arcane Bolt back. I'll take shooting pure magical energy at someone over spamming fireballs.

As long as it isn't those laser beams of DAI,any kind of magic that makes more sense is good.

I am hoping for Mage exclusive events and circumstances, considering that we are in Tevinter, this will make sense.
As for gameplay? I am hoping for something like Dragon's Dogma. Also more Fade content.

I want blood magic return!!!

Magical Bosom: 100% Stun Chance against Antivan Assassins

(Because why should Wynne be the only one capable of wielding such power?) :amirite:

Pie-In-The-Sky:
If we play as a saarebas or get a saarebas skill tree/specialization, I don't want to use a staff. Make animations to use magic with bare hands.
I know that Hissera uses one and I'll ignore that as Bioware couldn't implement anything else at the time.

Like this?

No because every saarebas I saw didn't use any weapon


Exactly!

Scythes?

You mean dual wielded scythes right?

Possibly my very favourite "little thing" in DA2.

Edit:   ...aaaaand I said that exact same thing at the top of the page...