Dual wielding wand and sword

[Ystear]

Hi,
I was concerned with my party balance, playing a knight/necromancer, archer, battlemage and enchanter. I realized i had not enough magic damage output for the enchanter to be useful, his crowd control never working because ennemies having magical armor.Same goes for the battlemage whose goal was to help the enchanter, he is still useful as he does very decent physical damage and can sometime use spells. I'm fine with physical damage (even more than fine as i have no problem completing the fights with that group).

So I had this idea to put a wand and a one handed weapon on my battle mage so that he would deal more magic damage (elemental weapons work well, but not enough in my opinion. I was quite disapointed to see that it did not work, the character never used the wand. I kind of understand there is an issue with the range of both weapons being different. But it ouwld be very neat if a character could use a wand in one hand while at range, and then use both the wand and a sword (for example) when in close combat.

Otherwise any solution to my lack of magic damage ?

[Senenleigh]

I hadn't thought of this. Sounds like a good idea, you need a melee weapon anyway for Phoenix dive and Battering Ram. The other is to just take Mnemonic as a talent and pick up more skills.

[Senenleigh]

I have far less magic damage than you do in one of my party's comps. I make my Enchanter all Aerothurge, and I give my rogue chloroform, have them target front line fighters with low magic shield.

[Damyan]

HeyBeing a lover of magic/melee dual wielding I found a trick:
you can swap weapons mid coimbat in the inventory, since you're not formally removing them. The primary weapon and damage type changes too. This way you can adapt to different ranges and types of armours, keeping the dodge bonus of Dual wielding