Arcane Warrior/Blood Mage On Dragon Age Origins, Opinions greatly appreciated?

Ok So I have a Level 15 Arcane Warrior/Blood Mage (My 4th Playthrough, I've never been a mage though) and the only main quest I've done so far is The Circle Of Magi, I'm currently doing the orzammar main quest, My Mage's main spells are damage and necromancy spells (necromancy as in Death Cloud, Virulent Walking Bomb, Reanimate The Dead ect.)



The equipment I'm using:

Bergen's Honor (Dragonbone Helmet, +2 Armor, +6 Damage, +25 Physical Resistance)

Wade's Superior Dragonbone Plate Gloves (+10% Fire Resistance, +1 Stamina/Mana regeneration in combat)

Evon The Great's Mail (Dragonbone Chest Piece, +2 Health Regen in combat, +6 armor, +10% chance to dodge attacks, +2 Stamina/Mana Regen in Combat, Chanc to Avoid Missile Attacks)

Wade's Superior Dragonbone Plateboots (Same Stats as Gloves, this armor gives a full set bonus)



Weapon: Faith's Edge (2h Axe, Silverite, +2 Willpower, +5% Critical damage, Enchanted with +5 Cold Damage, +10 Damage against Darkspawn)



Any tips how I can make my character better?Arcane Warrior/Blood Mage On Dragon Age Origins, Opinions greatly appreciated?
A good think to do is put just about all of your points in magic and willpower. Combat magic uses your the points you have in magic to modify dmg in combat as well as what you can equip. Willpower obviously will give you a deeper mana pool to counteract the added fatigue from armor. I'd advise using a 1h sword and a shield. As for spells, go for spells like weapon enchantments, spell might, rock armor, and other sustained spells that give you defense/attack power in combat (spell might will add onto your magic to give you more dmg from your weapon).



The best use of blood magic is at the beginning of a fight, turn it on and try to gather all the enemies into a tight group, cast blood wound, turn it off and attack away. Blood wound stuns all enemies in the area PLUS does dmg over time while you're hackin' away. Wait for the cooldown, rinse and repeat.



AW/BM spec'd mages in DA:O are pretty much invincible if done right. You can find many videos on youtube of people soloing the entire game on nightmare using them. Oh, and if I missed anything you needed to know check out the sources.