Mage skill with the highest elemental damage

Key takeaways

• Skills like Storm Surge and Arcane Shot give Mages high primary damage options to effectively defeat enemies.
• Specializations such as Spellblade and Death Collar provide players with unique abilities, increased damage and healing options.
• Ultimate abilities like Thunderous End and Destructive Light help Mages shrug off devastating elemental attacks.

Dragon Age: Vilguard There are an assortment of abilities that players can maximize as they build their character's fighting style. The skills page displays a web of attributes, passives, and these abilities that give players a fighting chance and an exciting playstyle, no matter what difficulty they choose.

The Mage class returns once again Dragon Age: VilguardWhere it has a variety of lethal abilities that range in elemental damage. It should be noted that armor, weapons, and jewelry can also affect the amount of damage a skill can deal, but players looking for the most elemental damage-dealing skills should look no further than these.

10 the storm

Jump over damage and electrocute enemies

• Type: area, strike
• Cooldown: 60 seconds

Players working towards the Spellblade specialization may decide to first purchase abilities like Storm Surge, which not only deals a decent amount of lightning damage but also pushes the player back from danger.

As with the area ability, the lightning damage dealt by this skill kills not only the one enemy it targets, but also any enemies surrounding them, which somewhat increases the amount of damage dealt by this mage skill. Storm Surge is only made better through this ability by also applying a Primer of Overwhelm, which can be detonated for even more damage.

9 Arcane shot

A projectile that continues to burn

• Type: projectile, explosion
• cost: Two circles of mind

The most elemental damage can be found for the player to harness early in the game as one of the first abilities the player automatically unlocks. Those who want to focus on some kind of burning build for their Mage can focus on the fire damage caused by Arcane Shot themselves.

To use up two holes of mana, players throw five projectiles of flame at the target that also apply a burning effect. This means that even after the initial elemental damage done by the attack, Burning will continue to eat away at the opponent's health.

8 Ice Blast

Weakens enemies and deals cold damage

• Type: Control, explosion
• Cost: Two circles of mind

When looking for the best skills for Mages Dragon Age: Vilguard For those who deal the most elemental damage, players should look no further than ice-themed control abilities like Ice Blast. Enemies who find themselves in the path of this shot of cold damage not only take a fair amount of elemental damage, but also weaken those opponents to allow them to hit even more.

Since the attack also has no cooldown, players can use this ability repeatedly to hit multiple enemies in a line with cold damage as long as they have mana to spare. The damage caused by Ice Blast can be increased depending on what the player has equipped, making it a great choice for any build that favors controlling the battlefield.

7 the meteor

An area attack and leaf burning #

• Type: area, explosion
• cost: Two circles of mind

As seen by the previous skills mentioned, some of the higher elemental damage is available in the area abilities available to the Mage. For players who want to continue eliminating enemies, especially darkspawn, with fire, they can damage multiple enemies in the area where the meteor lands, then another fire attack leaves the enemies burning.

Aside from the initial fire damage and the burn effect caused by the meteor, this Mage ability has the ability to blast enemies with a Sundered effect placed on them. This means that after the normal damage from the meteor to many enemies, the explosion caused by its explosion can hit the end of many enemies due to this increased damage.

6 Zero Blade

Lethal damage to debuffed enemies

• Type: Strike, blast
• cost: Two circles of mind

Unlike the other abilities mentioned, which are some of the best for Mages looking for high elemental damage, they can only use Void Blade if they have chosen the Spellblade specialization.

With this in mind, Spellblade is still one of the best specializations for a player to pursue, especially with this skill in mind, as many other skills increase the player's overall damage output, including Void Blade. Even without these boosts, the explosion potential of the Void Blade means that the electrical damage from this skill is the best option for some players.

5 soul bomb

Siphon health to throw back at enemy

• Type: Period, explosion
• cost: Two circles of mind

Death Collar is another incredible specialization available to Mages Dragon Age: Vilguard. Many of its abilities not only deal a lot of necrotic damage but also siphon the damage to heal the player some of their health.

Spirit Bomb is a unique ability available to players who take the Death Color Specialization, not only the ability to detonate Sundar, which already detonates, but also the Necrotic Bomb aspect of the ability. Enemies who find themselves too close to someone attached to a spirit bomb will also be at the mercy of the skill.

4 Herald of the Crypt

Quickly regain health and deal a necrotic explosion

Continuing with the massive damage caused by the Death Color specialization, the most elemental damage a mage can do is mostly seen when using various ultimate abilities. Crypt's Herald is a great choice for many players because not only is it able to deal damage to multiple enemies in an area over time, but it also has the ability to regain health.

While Crypt's Herald is not as powerful as other ultimates available, players have a lot more control when using this skill. The player slowly damages enemies around them, while also being able to trap others in a circle of necrotic damage. The finale then ends with a large explosion that deals a final large amount of elemental damage.

3 Vortex of Shadows

Pull enemies into the cold

Continuing in line with the ultimate abilities, Vortex of Shadow focuses all of the mage's power into a single point where they create vortices that eagerly draw their enemies towards it, damaging them in a constant stream of cold damage.

This Evoker pulls enemies into its core, still dealing damage. This also sets up these enemies to attack with a different elemental ability from Mage or other allies as they detonate everyone within the vortex to set up various primers and then detonators.

2 A thunderous end

Another explosive ultimate that shocked

Spellblade continues to be the Mage's best friend, not only dealing a burst of lightning damage at the end of this specialization but also applying two stacks of stun effects to all enemies hit by it.

Being stunned means that after the initial final ability, enemies will continue to take electrical damage, and by placing two stacks of it on the enemy, this damage is increased for the duration of the shocked effect. Even without this in mind, the Thunderous End ultimate continues to be not only one of the best ultimates available from the specialization, but also a Mage skill for dealing high amounts of elemental damage.

1 destructive light

A deadly beam of fire that applies burns

Even with all the ultimate abilities provided by the various specializations for Mages, players can deal a lot of damage from the beginning of their playthrough, as each Mage starts the game with the ultimate of devastating light.

When the player has accumulated enough ultimates, they will be able to fire a large beam of fire towards their enemies that deals a large amount of fire damage quickly. If the beam wasn't deadly enough, Ruinous Light is another fire ability that will gain a stack of Burning for extra elemental damage even after the last one has been exhausted.