Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity Original Sin - Beta Combat still has some issues

The best weapons for mages are, without a doubt, spears.

In my play-through, I have received 3-4 high damage (level 6-8 req spear, damage 130ish), elemental typed, spears that give +1 to various spell skills. They can hit all mobs without difficulty (even boss mobs), have a notable range bonus compared to other melee weapons and usually have elemental damage which seemingly ignores the high AC of skeletons etc. Combined with this, spears only require 1-2 points in 2H weapons, even those requiring level 8; the change from 1>2 seems to be level 8.

All in all, there's no reason for mages to use staves at the moment; ironically, my fighter character needs 4 in 1H weapons to use a much lower damage weapon, and simply doesn't have the skill points to use decent shields (getting 3-4 in armour, 1H weapon eats up skill points) given that even low level vanilla shields such as the metal shield require 3-4 in shields to use.


Oh, and as everyone knows: Rain + Winter's Breath = instant kill.