Dragon Age Inquisition The Most Powerful Rift Mage Combo Build 

​@loveyourself3246and tempest is just slow with inventory management as an extra step at least has stealth as an actual mechanic while artificer doesn't care if your seen its a jack and box with fireworks flashy and fun even stuff you dont see dies

​@vergillives9890 what you mean slow?? Did you build your tempest correctly? Use daggers then: Shadow step/grapple hook (grapple hook requires less points since you'll have points in this tree already)>frost flask>spinning blades to spread frozen>detonators (twin fangs, deathblow, even one of the upgrades for throwing daggers)>fire flask>spam throwing blades>lightning flask. Nothing should be alive but if they are just repeat. If against bosses can drop frost flask as it won't do much but increase durations of other flasks

@@nerdyginger7430 i always used bow because they would die if you used anything dw by trapped in animation

its not bug... its mechanics electricity...

Seriously I'm starting my mage build now that I've played ever race and class and THISSSSSSSS is GOD-TIER

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Weakening is very useful, but not enough abilities for that

@@RPGBUILDER33 I just mean her passive that gives the party the chance to trigger weakness with attacks

Good to hear that!

Thanks, dude!

Blood Magic was powerful this is infinite power completely different

The rogues can take care of them, mages are not fit to fight dragons

@@RPGBUILDER33 Absolutely isn’t true. Just depends on which dragon and how you build. Having multiple elemental staves helps but I’ve killed 3-4 dragons on nightmare with my rift mage, the key is flanking damage, winters ruin, and energy barrage. The hardest dragon for me so far was the stormcoast one, because that stupid lightning aoe that sticks to you. I’m only level 18 too. Rogues and reavers do kill dragons better though, my reaver eats dragons alive.

Thanks dude!

Nice!

Clone the staff with different elements switch when needed

Love the time when playing MP with friends

Yeah, that's when you need fade step(upgrade.2), I would say the CC is more important than mana recovery

@@RPGBUILDER33 makes sense. Thanks for the reply, rift mage is probably my favorite mage just for the amount of CC spam and pretty numbers.

Nope, these builds are for players, only the AI builds work for AI, and tempest is the best AI character, you can check my tempest AI set up

You need to hit a bonch of mobs to generate decent amount of barrier, it also fades fast, but it does provide barrier each time

@@RPGBUILDER33 if you take the upgrade that make barriere decay slower will it make the barriere from mind blast last longer ?

You can use this "unlock specialization mod"

@@RPGBUILDER33 Got a link to it on how I can use and download? would much appreciate it!

@@johndavis2108 Search it on Nexus and you'll find everything you need

I haven't tested it yet

You need the Superior version plus arms and legs

This is a control build, and rift mage is usually the CC class, just not good with damage. If you want to deal a lot of damage, you'd better play knight enchanter

@@RPGBUILDER33 but necro and rift mage have much more dmg than enchanter.

@@RPGBUILDER33 yah your build doesnt work vs enemies immune to status effect or immune to cc. Which there are plenty if you turn on trials and play on nightmare or are just playing the trespacer dlc

@@proudmoore5254 if you want consistent damage just use Knight enchanter or if you want to abuse the fire mine + walking bomb masterwork combo (which doesnt work on fire immune enemies) play necromancer. Tbh most of your consistent dmg on mages on nightmare will come from spirit damage based abilities, not from combos the other damage type are all situationnal due to immunities on nightmare. Also his build doesnt work against undead either, cause they immune to sleep, nor will it work against status immune or cc immune enemies, which there are plenty in dlc or if you just turn on some of the trials. Also walking bomb is best used on a rogue or a warrior as a masterwork cause the dmg from the masterwork is based on the dmg of the hit that proc'ed it. Making them be better at using walking bomb than a necromencer himself. So, ye just use knight enchanter with wrath of lovias staff pump crit dmg on it with like maybe 16% crit chance and use a superior prowler armor with max cunning if u want dmg. Also dont bother with ring of doubt, it only works if you stop attacking and slightly move in between each cast, plus it make ur party member not follow u around. Overall mage is a bad class in a game where damage is more important on nightmare difficulty. Is all good if u play on normal or hard tho, but nightmare? I wouldnt play a mage on nightmare unless you wanna die consistently and feels like ur party member are better than you.

@@proudmoore5254 tldr of my previous post : mage sucks on nightmare. On that difficulty ur damage become inconsistent due to immunities. And with trials on and in dlcs a lot of enemies are immune to cc or status effects, so you cant combo them for big damage. If you wanna play nightmare, dlcs or turn on trials then better play a rogue or a warrior, cause mages sucks in those scenario. Kinda sad, that game balance goes out the window in those, almost like they didnt balance the game properly and made certain classes explicitely better than others in those scenario.

So how do you do it ? Been trying your build for months now but i still dont get infinite combos due to my party member waking enemies up as soon as i make them fall asleep. Is it tactic setup ? Or something else ? I have my party setup to follow my inquisitor and my tank to defend itself, i also am using cole instead of sera, as an archer that is. Even tried to bring sera in, instead of another mage, using her as an archer that mostly use her lightning flask along with basic attacks, poisons and longshot + throwing blade with flask of fire. But so far i havent see any results like yours...also wanted to know if this was working on nightmare and how you deal with enemies immune to cc or to weakness, especially in the trespacer dlc, because this doesnt seems to work against them nor against dragon for that matter, since you cant make them fall asleep or cc them nor does it work with trials on

No mods required There're 3 materials that remove class restriction for armor schematic Dales Loden Wool for light armor Hardened Tusket Skin or Snoufleur Skin for medium armor Silverite for heavy armor

@@RPGBUILDER33 Oh wow, I had no idea. Thanks for the reply!

specialization mod.

@@RPGBUILDER33 on console?

Use the right crafting material.

Snouffleur skin (or is it Hide in the english version?) removes class restriction, like argentite does for heavy armor

@@tlotpwist3417 dales wool light armor, snouffleur skin medium armor, silverite heavy armor

I have a video explaining about it you can check here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eXLEcOPT7ZE.html

There are materials for each class of armor that removes its class restriction. For medium armor, if you craft it with snoufleur skin as the base material, any class can wear that piece of armor. For Heavy armor its Silverite and I forget what mage armor uses.

Why

Level up, find materials, gears, craft!

Nice! ✊

Stat rings do stack, ability rings don't

@@miro1764 No identical rings stack, unfortunately.

@@patriciawilliams1232 Stat rings do, crit for example. equip 2 identical stat rings and check your stats, you'll see they do. It's not that hard.