Dragon Age Origins Questions?

I'm a potential buyer of Dragon Age Origins, but I was first wondering about these questions about the game.





1. I want to be a mage. How much armor and weaponry does the mage have? I really can't find any on the internet, but I found tons of armor the warriors can use.





2. So I heard you can have two specializations. If I buy the game, I want to be based on offense. (And have another mage heal). If I be an arcane warrior and a shapeshifter, does that mean that I shapeshift AND still cast the awesome spells of the arcane warrior?





3. What is the best build for a mage if the Arcane Warrior/Shapeshifter really isn't so great?





4. Can you despecialize in something? For example, if I get tired of being a arcane warrior/shapeshifter, can I learn another "profession" instead? Like switch to a Blood Mage?





Thank you.|||1] The Weapons/Armory System works off your strength for example having high enough strength will allow you to wear tier 4 armor and anything below. [goes up to tier 7]


Mages armor is based of magic, the higher the better mage cloth you can wear not much selection about 10 different pieces in the game for each category if not less. Mages use a staff unless your an arcane warrior where you can equip a sword[the arcane technique will revert any need of strength to magic. so you will never need to higher your strength as a mage. You can always equip a sword or w/e but without a certain ability you will require higher strength to equip better weapons, staffs are based off magic level.





2] A shape sifter allows you to transform in one of 3 creatures adapting to certain creature abilities you will not be able to use your reg. spells while in a form of a spider only spider skills and so on.


Arcane warrior gets to equip heavy armor and powerful weapons at a price of higher cost for use of magic. But you will be able to cast spells, for the best combo people often use Arcane Warrior/Blood mage seek guides for proper leveling as you go through the game the arcane warrior requires good preparation from the beginning of the game in order to fully utilize. like i said once your in a shape shifting form you may not use your regular spells, it's a great stat boost with new abilities in the form of a creature.





3]Arcane Warrior/ Blood Mage since you will have the ability to use the enemies blood instead of will power[mana] but /healer isint so bad either, if you want to mainly swing a sword and sometimes cast a spell arcane warrior is for you but most of your will power will be used for power and acc. up spells[boosts] having the blood mage backup will allow for plenty of enemy health for use of spells.





4] You cannot reset ability points once used so if you have it set to arcane war. you will have his abilities open for you to learn etc. You get one ability point at level 7 and 14 for specializations you can then choose one of 4 so you can play a blood mage until you decide to play something else btw you need to unlock these abilities to learn them so depending on the route/story you take you can get blood mage early in the game, closer to the ending or not at all.





Tip. You really need to get the feel of the game to answer specialization questions.


Arcane warrior can't be properly utilized at the beginning or even middle of the game with the stats it requires; Dexterity, Magic, Will Power and Constitution if you have a blood mage to add you will need more Constitution and less will power but again you need to see for yourself.


I play the game on a few Characters with different roles the mage requires the most attention because if you don't higher your states properly you may have to wait till later in the game to utilize a specialization for example a mage I leveled with high Magic and will power but low dexterity will be a bad Arcane warrior since he will miss everything almost all the time and i will have to wait another 5 or 6 levels to up his dex till he can properly hit. There are guides online the help a lot, some guide you through proper leveling for a certain specialization.


Gamefaqs.com search dragon age and click on faqs there are good guides there.


I tried not very good at explaining but have fun.|||1. Anyone can wear any armor. It's all based on amount strength.





2. No, once you have shape-shifted you use that shapes skills





3. This is all the fun of the game choose a few you like and test them.





4. I don't think so. But maybe?|||1. you can wear almost anything if you're meet the requirements for that specific armor/weapon


but heavy armor usually requires 30++ strength. if you an arcane warrior, however you can wear


anything, 'cause instead of strength you'll need 30++ magic. there are a few items only for rogues, templars, etc, but not much.





2. no, while shapeshifted you cannot





3. i like arcane warrior / healer : then you don't need an additional mage (wyne) in the group.


btw, did you consider playing blood mage?





4. no





and the mage - origin is great, i began with it, then did all the others, too. it's an awesome game, couldn't stop till finished it also with rouge an warrior 2.