Mages don't have staves or wands, unfortunately. However, they can wield any kind of melee weapon they want. Some bows are designed more for mages, it sounds pointless but you'll come and find how useful it can be.
What you want to do is look for weapons that give mostly magic damage instead of melee damage. Because the more intelligence you put on your character, the more magic damage the melee weapon will produce.
As I recall, Divinity 1 had a lot of limitations on how your character looked. Also there are one handed war-hammers and you can click and drag a 2nd sword into the shield spot to duel wield swords which is nice to have. You look like a ninja in your attacks.
Last edited by LightningLockey; 15/08/09 02:07 PM.