Originally Posted by UnDeaD77

Arcane is nice, but while using swords, you only have the basic ability to attack. I pretty much always stayed in Combat Magic mode.

Same here. Up until the very end I really only used it for the armor. At the end though I got my 4 arcane skills so I turned it on for the "ghost" mana generation. It wouldn't have been so bad with the swords since I had some good ones except for half the spells it seemed to waste time having to put the weapons away.

As far as a second play through, I'd have to re-play with a mage, as I had no interest in other classes. I enjoy using magic, and being overpowered way to much, lol.

If I played a Mage again I'd focus on some of the other magic types which I didn't really touch. I had my guy focused mainly on AoE damage.

I'm contemplating doing a third run but haven't decided if I'll do a Warrior (to complete the three classes) or do a Rogue again but use some of the other abilities such as stealth, traps, etc.

For those having difficulties my main recommendation is to make sure you have 2 Mages in the party. A balanced party is typically 2 Mages, 1 Warrior (to tank) and 1 Rogue (lockpicking).

In this game I just finished I used Lilianna as ranged the entire time and it worked out pretty good. Especially when combined with Ranger to get that extra melee fighter.

Bernout