The Arcane Blood Mage(Damager AW) - Dragon Age Origins

Does this work for nightmare difficulty

Just started a play through in 2023

Still one of the best party based rpgs out there. I love a good ARPG, but the who tf is making any team based rpgs anymore? even FF went to ARPG with 16

If i ever want to play this great game again. This is the best story in all 3 Dragon age games not the mention you can be one evil Dude or Girl in this game. Unlike any other game out there except maybe KOTOR. I will have to mod the fuck out of Dragon age origins to bring it to current Graphics and 4k. Not to mention Mod some of the NPC Females.

I noticed your channel just yesterday and I'm liking your DA: Origins content. Its my fav DA game.
Gonna sub.

Bro I'm playing the game for the first time and just from peaking at one minute of this video, there's still so much I have yet to learn

I will forever hate the developers for taking out the finishing moves

i will be using this for my evil playthrough

And recommend for gear if you only have awakening for origins? And a good skill progression please!

I love how many unorthodox builds you can do in BW games. I had a ton of fun with my heavy armor s&s rogue bard. I was nigh untouchable because of the high dexterity. Spirit Warrior Archer is also OP as hell if you have Awakening or the Awakening in Origins mod. Killed the high dragon in Haven on nightmare in less than 30 seconds.

Excited to give this one a go. I should actually try a real mage once though lol. I always do arcane warrior and just slash everything to death

You can make this build no matter what start you pick ?

Hey! I recently restarted playing DA:O and I wanted to ask you how would you change this build up in order to be able to incorporate much more spells because quite frankly, I am not a fan of buffing up and right clicking on an enemy, I usually tend to prefer active playstyle i.e. fireball, winters grasp, death cloud, hexes, cone of cold, etc! So I was curious if this build could work in a much more active playstyle! Thank you! :)

... the year was 2010, my second year of college. I installed DA:O. And i fell in love. The year is 2011 and u finally got all the in game achievements. Even the nightmare golems dlc, the one with the flesh golem and the ranger dwarf that invoques the rhino. I had 100%. The year was 2012, i finally managed to make a solo nightmare run... The characther was a ranger duelist archer with the sustained ability that increased defense. It was marvelous. And painfull... My second nightmare solo run was a shapeshifter arcane warrior... That one was better... Bear form op. And then i tried DA 2... And i only did 2 playthroughs... Now i got the bug telling me (play it again)... And i found your channel, so thank you

I have played this game so many times and it is now that I realise that arcane warriors can wear shields, my main character, an arcane warrior ended the blight and awakening dlc with just one sword and a broken class that i didnt know was even more broken

question is does this work on nightmare difficulty?

There's 0 need for crit gear.
Just use crit curse ;) And boost your spell power even more !!

I just wished we got the game on PS4 or a remaster

Tried this build just now: damage is great, but I seem to have trouble with hitting anything on Nightmare. Can easily miss 5-6 times in a row on some regular enemies. Does Magic gives hit chance for Arcane Warriors, like Strength, or is it only used for item stat requirements? I'm not max level yet, have around 60 magic base.

A Kis Herceg really need your assistance mate. First of all, you're a god amongst man for keeping this legendary game alive with such high quality content. Second, I copied your guide but my mage probably needs glasses or something because I'm missing 7 out of 10 hits. I'm currently level 13, about to hit 14, and I have all your gear except for the rings. Got all 7 buffs always active, have my magic on 81 which translates to almost 100 spellpower with equipment. Am I missing something?

you did not get trouble with ogres with grab and stuff? they can't be resisted i guess that's why you had alistair as backup

Got my inspiration for this build from your vid and tried it too
Trying to play the first two dragon ages after inquisition
Im trying to min max a bit more, so i played as an elf mage
But was wondering
You can reach 100 dodge chance and 103 spell resist with this set up:
Arcane shield(15d/15s)
Cailan's greaves(20d)
Spellward(10d/30s)
Reaper's vestments(10d/16s)
Dwarven rune 2x(10s)
Key to the city(4s)
Ancient Elven Gloves(4s)
Clinch of maneuvering(10d/10s)
first enchanter cowl(10d/4s)
d=dodge s=spell resist
Was wondering why you went with the 20% fire gloves cause at most it gives 2 more damage on ur flame weapon, cause its capped at 20
And also why did you go with The High Regard of House Dace instead of spellward
Cause while it gives 50 mana and 1 regen and crit chance, spellward makes you reach 100 on both dodge and spell resist

I don't know why but I just keep missing hit

I wanted to ask if you'd be willing to make an OP mage solo nightmare build preferably using a staff instead of melee weapons and cover beginning(1-7)/midgame(10-18)/endgame(18-25) covering stats and gear along the way?

This is insane. Thanks for sharing! :D

Harvester: "No fair! You cheated!"

I am replaying DA Origins after many years, and I wonder if this build is avaible in Origins aswell? and not only Awekening?

Thanks for great video!

Even though I could have solo'd the 2nd half of the game with roughly the same build I had, having two other mages in the party with the haste spell (which can stack) is just absolutely busted even on Nightmare.

always wondered how you get all those poisons to fill your bar? do you use gold farming methods or what exactly? Also was it necessary to play like normal mage for a few levels I guess? What spells are good to start with? Im curious

I'm doing a blood mage arcane warrior right now, but i'm afraid it will get Boring around The end game cuz it mostly relies on buffs and no active spells

Can I see a list of magic skill books?

Finally! A weapon to surpass the Maker himself!!

Nice build too bad if the bug regarding mana/stamina is patch through mods then it will not be viable 🥲

Death magic arcane blood mage build is the best

Very nice, the amount of tank mage gets alone from are and mage always impresses me.

Not sure if you are aware, ( or you know and don’t like exploiting it) if you get I think it’s Legion of the Dead or a different one. Anyway, there is one shield motif that when put your shield for some reason it increases all stats on the character by like 10-20 I can’t remember off the top of my head.

Great character!
What do you think about the two handed warrior? Is a good character
I like to play a run with a dwarf noble with a two handed axe
Any advice?

I never tried blood mage specialization before but seems to be really cool, I think I'm going to create a new character and wreak havoc using blood magic.

Glad to see someone is actually able to play this game. Origins/Awakening has like 7FPS running from a SSD on my i5 11400F, RTX 3060 and 32GB RAM. Anyone able to share the witchraft behind this smooth gameplay? Or should i sacrifice goat or sheep or something like that?

Im in prison watching your videos can't wait to get out so I can play this

I mostly end up with high magic and mixed stats for my arcane warriors. But always wondered what would dexterity and magic maxed arcane warrior would be like? Guaranteed hits and dodging, highest armor etc..

is this build good for all difficulty?

I feel like doing the coin glitch is the only way for me to be able to get all that, except for cailenʼs equipment.

You are just clowning the game at this point. LOL! I love it.

Why not dual-wield like you did with the "dual-wield mage rogue"?

It's incredibly easy to cheese the game with a staff-wielding Arcane Warrior/Blood Mage/Battlemage. I used one to solo the harvester and can't believe the time will come that I will ever think the Harvester was just another boss. Finally earned that Reaper's Cudgel because of that mage. 😂

I think it is safer to go for wade's armor, cailans arms, spellward, andruils belt, honllit helmet, lifegiver and use shimmering shield. Equipment will compensate -10 mana regen and with shield (+other defensive auras) will make us impossible to kill

Whose in your party at the beginning? It's a golem looks like Caridin

Genlock conjurer: got paralyzed and cannot dodje an attack
Arcane mage: misses at paralyzed genlock

Please make a arcane archer (mage build) 😅

After sitting in my backlog for years, I just finished inquisition and even got the platinum. Thanks for the awesome guides that you put out, dude. Hope you're still active when dreadwolf eventually comes out.

It's so cool to see people still uploading DA:O content in 2022, I wonder if playthroughs could become a thing again.

Is there any good armors or armor sets for Arcane Warriors other than the one from the DLC? I recall there's not many options that could maximize the potential for the Arcane Warrior, so I never once tried it. Other than that, awesome video dude! Keep it comin' :D