Thanks for the answer. I have only had a chance to play the preview and check out builds on-line. I just noticed that when you pick battlemage you have those awesome axes.
They don't have to be physical damage I guess. If they were more elemental damage of some sort long as they were viable for INT or did mage damage and was not a staff.
That way you could still use some of those warrior type skills and they would still whack down magic armor. A spear or axes or any class of weapon that just did more magic based damage then physical would be usable.