Having a Templar in your party is noticeably helpful during fights to close fade rifts, and when fighting rogue apostates or blood mages. The Templar is the warrior’s answer against magic and demons.

Best Staff Schematic/lvl, damage bonus, critical bonus, elemental bonus.

Superior Seer Cowl, reduce cooldowns, increase magic.

Refined Battlemage Coat, ranged defense, health bonus, willpower bonus.

Easiest mage to build and run, even for new players.

Access to all elemental types to surpass resistances.

Balance of single target and AOE attacks.

It is balanced and works well on its own, but there is no reason to to get creative and add more with specialty classes later on. This build can also be used as an excellent base for later additions. If they are resistant to one, then just use something else. The elementalist gets around this by having access to every element.

Many enemies in the game have resistances to certain elements that mages use. This is excellent if you prefer to take the story slower and focus on side questing, as it will take you longer to unlock specialty class options. This is the most versatile mage build in the game, and can be achieved without the use of specialty classes.

Dragon age inquisition templar helmet