Celtic Heroes

Hand-to-hand mage
This build is typically for those with rogue/warrior mains with damage off-hands who want to spread their lux across to other characters. The hand-to-hand mage will be focusing on auto-attacks mainly with a couple spells in-between. The skills you are looking at are: fire lure, cloak of fire, fire bolt and then you can spread to other paths from there. You want a cloak of fire in your build because you can cast it before battle and deal damage without having to leave your auto-attack to cast. Fire lure is there to improve your cloak of fire, and fire bolt just because it is good DPS and you already have fire lure so might as well.

This is where the stat exception lies. Dexterity and strength WILL help you deal more DPS (potentially), so it really is up to you if you want to sacrifice some points from vitality/focus into strength or dexterity. (Would recommend putting into dexterity over strength).

So you have those 3 skills maxed (lure almost maxed), now you can choose how to complete your h2h mage. You can either:

Maximise DPS - Add on fire storm for a nice fire build except focused more on auto-attacks.
Half-support - Add on a couple of lures to help your group out.
Go hybrid - You don't exactly have enough points to add on attunement to your build, so you can add a couple of points into ice lure and the rest into ice shards for some extra DPS.

It is important to have NO MAIN HAND equipped. You will be using your fists as they have a very fast attack speed, and you can increase your hand to hand ability to reduce misses. Wands are too slow and give hardly any damage increase. You also want items that give fire damage (golden blade of fire or fiery axe off-hands) and items to increase your attack speed (such as heroic gloves, or haste ring). The downside of a h2h mage is that you will be fighting up close and personal on bosses/while leveling. You will be in range of AoE damage so it is important to sometimes have more vitality as usual or having a strong energy shield, as you will find yourself dying frequently.

From the Guide I wrote:

Hand-to-hand mage
This build is typically for those with rogue/warrior

Hand-to-hand mage
This build is typically for those with rogue/warrior