Mage Skills With The Highest Elemental Damage

Key Takeaways

• Skills like Storm Surge and Arcane Shot offer Mages high elemental damage options to defeat foes effectively.
• Specializations like Spellblade and Death Caller provide unique abilities, enhancing damage and healing options for players.
• Ultimate abilities such as Thunderous End and Destructive Light help Mages unleash devastating elemental attacks.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard has an assortment of abilities for players to make the most of when building their character’s combat style. The skill page is displayed on a web that combines traits, passives, and these abilities to give players a fighting chance and an exciting playstyle, no matter what difficulty they have chosen.

The Mage class returns once more in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, where it possesses a variety of lethal abilities that deal an assortment of elemental damage. It should be noted that armor, weapons, and jewelry can also affect the amount of damage that can be done by a skill, but players who are looking for the skills that do the most elemental damage should look no further than these.

10 Storm Surge

Leap Out Of Harm And Electrocute Foes

• Type: Area, Strike
• Cooldown: 60 Seconds

Players who are working towards the Spellblade specialization may first decide to purchase abilities such as Storm Surge, which not only does a decent amount of electricity damage but dodges the player backward out of danger.

As an area ability, the electricity damage done by this skill not only hits the one foe it targets but also any enemy that surrounds them, which somewhat increases the amount of damage done by this Mage skill. Storm Surge is only made better through this ability by also applying the primer of Overwhelm, which can then be detonated for even more damage.

9 Arcane Shot

A Projectile That Continues To Burn

• Type: Projectile, Blast
• Cost: Two circles of Mana

The highest elemental damage for a player to harness can be found early into the game as one of the first abilities the player automatically unlocks. Those who wish to focus on some sort of Burning build for their Mage may find themselves focusing on the fire damage caused by Arcane Shot.

Costing two notches of Mana to use, players throw five projectiles of flame at a target that also applies the burning effect. This means that even after the initial elemental damage done by the attack, Burning will continue to eat away at the opponents’ health.

8 Ice Blast

Weaken Foes And Deal Cold Damage

• Type: Control, Blast
• Cost: Two circles of Mana

When seeking the best skills for Mages in Dragon Age: The Veilguard that deal the most elemental damage, players should look no further than the Ice-themed Control abilities like Ice Blast. Foes that find themselves stuck in the path of this shot of cold damage will not only suffer a decent amount of elemental damage but also weaken those opponents to allow them to be hit for even more.

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

7 Meteor

Attacks In An Area And Leaves Burning#

• Type: Area, Blast
• Cost: Two circles of Mana

As seen by previous skills mentioned, the area abilities available to the Mage have some of the highest elemental damage available. For players that wish to continue to eradicate enemies, especially Darkspawn, with fire, they can harm multiple foes in the area where the meteor lands, followed by another fire attack that leaves the enemies Burning.

Besides the initial fire damage and the Burning effect caused by Meteor, this Mage ability has the potential to detonate enemies that have the Sundered effect put onto them. This means that after the usual damage caused to multiple enemies by Meteor, the explosion caused by its detonation may strike the end of many of the foes due to this increased damage.

6 Void Blade

Lethal Damage To Debuffed Enemies

• Type: Strike, Blast
• Cost: Two circles of Mana

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 arguably one of the best specializations for a player to pursue, especially with this skill in mind, as many of the other skills increase the player’s overall damage, including Void Blade. Even without these boosts, the blast ability of Void Blade means the electric damage from this skill is a perfect option for some players.

5 Spirit Bomb

Siphon Health To Throw Back At The Enemy

• Type: Duration, Blast
• Cost: Two circles of Mana

Death Caller is another incredible specialization available to Mages in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Many of its abilities not only do a lot of necrotic damage but can also heal the player back some of their health by siphoning the damage.

Spirit Bomb is the unique ability available to players who take the Death Caller specialization, for not only the capability of detonating Sunder, which already causes an explosion but also the necrotic bomb aspect of the ability. Foes that find themselves too close to the individual that finds themselves connected to the spirit bomb will also be at the mercy of the skill.

4 The Crypt’s Herald

Quickly Gain Back Health And Deal A Necrotic Explosion

Continuing on the major damage caused by the Death Caller specialization, the most elemental damage that can be done by a Mage is mostly seen when using the various ultimate abilities. The Crypt’s Herald is a great choice for many players for not only it being able to damage multiple foes in an area over time, but also the ability to gain back health.

Granted that The Crypt’s Herald isn’t as powerful as the other ultimates available, players have a lot more control when using this skill. The player slowly does damage to the enemies that surround them, while also being able to move to catch others in this circle of necrotic damage. The ultimate then concludes with a huge explosion that does a final large amount of elemental damage.

3 Vortex Of Shadow

Drag Enemies Into The Cold

Continuing on the line of ultimate abilities, the Vortex of Shadow concentrates all the Mage’s power into a single point where they create a vortex that pulls their foes eagerly toward it while damaging them in a continuous strain of cold damage.

By this Evoker ultimate dragging enemies into its center while still damaging them. It also sets these foes up for being attacked by a different elemental ability from the Mage or other companions as they set up various primers and then detonators to explode all those within the vortex.

2 Thunderous End

Another Explosive Ultimate That Stacks Shocked

Spellblade continues to be a Mage’s best friend, with the ultimate of this specialization not only dealing an explosion of electricity damage but also applying two stacks of the Shocked effect on all foes that were hit by it.

Shocked means that after the initial ultimate ability, the enemies will continue to take electric damage, and with two stacks of it on a foe, this damage is increased for the duration of the Shocked effect. Even without this in mind, the Thunderous End ultimate continues to not only be one of the best ultimates available from the specializations but also the Mage skill to do a high amount of elemental damage.

1 Destructive Light

A Lethal Beam Of Fire That Applies Burning

Even with all the ultimate abilities provided by the different specializations for Mages, players can deal a high amount of damage from the start of their playthrough, as every Mage starts the game with the ultimate of Destructive Light.

When the player has gathered enough Ultimate, they will be able to fire a huge beam of fire towards their enemies that deals an immense amount of fire damage rapidly. If the beam wasn’t deadly enough, Destructive Light is another fire ability that any enemy hit by it will also gain a stack of Burning for extra elemental damage even after the ultimate is over.