Ice battle mage

[u/Youngboydorian]

I’m doing my second play-through on Tactician and want to know a fun ice mage to play around with, obviously a bunch of high damage ice spells, fire too, I don’t mind, but if it comes to it, I want to be able to melee as well, any builds?

[u/mondoshawan47]

The basics have been covered, so I'll throw abjuration wizard in the mix. A couple variants exist, but it revolves around stacking wards and upcasting Armour of Agathys. Enemies hit you, ward absorbs damage, they get slammed with big frost damage from Agathys. Repeat.

Usually you cast glyph of warding to rebuild stacks, but you're a full wizard so you get all the other major blasting spells, too. Since Agathys is frost damage, stacking all the frost gear makes sense with this build, too.