Battle mage?

[Coglin]

I was wondering something, with the current armory system and point allotment, is there anything stopping me from using a GLD, put all points in INT, MND, equip only THU and CON spells and have a heavy armor, sword and shield wielding mage?

I leveled thm as my first 50 and then got to 40 on conj. Now anytime I play to level a DoW at all, I pretty much do this, and have been doing so for a long time.

Some may say your m.acc will suffer, but frankly I don't really notice. I also disreguard anything anyone says about spell damage droping. I say this because when I was a level 1 archer casting poison/bio/dia II or banish/scourge II the difference betwen 750 and 680 in damage on a level 10 mob becomes highly irrelavent when its total HP are 590.

Sleep from mid/late conj 30s is handy on any class. Any DoW benefits from all the absorbs too. Paralyze as well.