I never played as an arcane warrior last time but was thinking about trying something like that out, will i have to go back to origins/awakening to do that or will dragon age 2 have a spell type tree for warriors or some sort of melee/armour tree for mages?

According to the Dragon Age Wiki, the three mage specializations are Blood Mage, Force Mage, and Spirit Mage. So I guess not.
http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Classes_(Dragon_Age_II)

Yeah, I think you'd have to go back to DA:O for that.

ah well sucks that there will be no spellsword type available.

" ah well sucks that there will be no spellsword type available. "

Hate that there's no AW, but since I don't want Bethany to die I'm playing Warrior anyways.

No, but the staves now have swords on the end so it doesn't really matter.

AW was so ridiculously OP in Origins.

Yeah I was really bummed out when I read no AW in DA2 but I've come to terms with it. I just need to figure out what the hell I want to play as.

Let's face it guys... Arcane warrrior was and still is overpowered. I'm glad it's gone.

" Yeah I was really bummed out when I read no AW in DA2 but I've come to terms with it. I just need to figure out what the hell I want to play as. "

" AW was so ridiculously OP in Origins. "

I remember before Origins came out, they had stated that they weren't going to have tank-mages as a design choice.  And then they made Arcane Warrior so... yeah.

No,its confirmed that there is no Arcane Warrior in Dragon Age 2, a disappointment for me really, but the mage class,judging by the demo is improved, a lot.
And to be fair, the AW sub-class was overpowered in DA:O, especially if you had some DLC items on your AW.
Case in point.
  

" @Tennmuerti said:

" AW was so ridiculously OP in Origins. "

Totally, and I laved it! It's the only way I was able to beat Ser Cauthrien just after you rescued Queen Anora; the battle where's literally like 12 archers, two mages a few dozen elite knights and also her as a boss of course. Most of my party died as quick as they usually do, but my Arcane Warrior was able to practically take em all on <3 "

" @Abyssfull: woah woah woah, you can WIN that fight? :| do you avoid getting captured? "

In a related note, I'm pretty bummed that you can't have two weapon sets equipped. I made a rogue and wanted to be an archer, so I picked some archery talents. But I had fun with the duel weilding stuff, and then I got an archer character (and another one I can get with the DLC). So I figured I'd make my guy switch between them. 
 
..but yeah, no. You have to go to your inventory and switch weapons rather than just hit Tab like in the first game. Kinda annoying. I've also not done any math, but I imagine splitting up the talents will gimp you later on. 
 
But I'm still gunna try. Just wish they let you do both. I wanted to be an archer, but with 3 archers in the game.. yea.

I want a dual wielding warrior but looks like I cant do that this time around.

Weird how they chose to limit so much in this sequel.. They've gone way passed "focused" and hit "limiting"

" @buft said:

" ah well sucks that there will be no spellsword type available. "

I believe BioWare said that they wanted to make things a tad more focused than Origins. I mean, the fact that you could turn Morrigan into a righteous Paladin-type of doom... sort of ridiculous. It's also why they stripped dual wield away from Warriors.  Two core gameplay variations for each class: Mage - healer / damage Warrior - two handed / sword and shield Rogue - ranged / melee  "

The elf warrior with crystals in his skin or whatever (Fenris? I'm not looking it up), his unique class is basically an arcane warrior. But he's more warrior than arcane. But he is doing magic damage. So yeah, each character other than your siblings has a unique class that only they can learn. You can't turn rogues into tank warriors who pick locks anymore because that shit was broken. You can't duel wield as a warrior because that shit was broken. In DAO I was using a bunch of warrior-rogues and duel weilding warriors so I could use a ton of imbued weapons and never get challenged. Shit was broken. I don't wax nostalgic about broken shit.

"In other words, a solid reason to not play the game. "

Super boo hiss at the lack of Arcane Warrior.  They could have dropped the power a little bit but that was my favorite class.  I hate when they take out optional stuff that's good.  Nobody had a gun put their head and was forced to take that specialization against their will.  Why remove it for people who enjoyed it?
 
@Pinworm45 said:

" In a related note, I'm pretty bummed that you can't have two weapon sets equipped. "

" @TomA said:

"In other words, a solid reason to not play the game. "

If you're going to be unnecessarily cynical, yes. But I believe the over abundance of choice was a detriment to what makes BioWare games so wonderful: their characters. All of a sudden you have a bunch of white canvases walking around in your party--susceptible to the whims of player choice. If I have one complaint about Origins, it's a fairly large one: the game lacks 'character' in all senses of the word--be it defined characters, or a protagonist who simply didn't have 'enough' to him, or even the generic fantasy world that they developed. "

so basically people are crying because they cant easymode the entire game with the cheapest class imaginable?

" so basically people are crying because they cant easymode the entire game with the cheapest class imaginable? "

" so basically people are crying because they cant easymode the entire game with the cheapest class imaginable? "

@Pinworm45 said:

" In a related note, I'm pretty bummed that you can't have two weapon sets equipped. "

This is a horrible change imo.  Every other change I've heard was "meh" but this really sucks.  It seems like they're really giving you no options for how you want to play this game.  One thing that I loved about the Rogue and Arcane Warrior from DA:O is that it allowed your party to be extremely liquid.  If you needed to hang back, switch to your staff or bow and tag people from a distance.  If you need a bit more up close power, pull out your sword or dagger and go ham. 
 
I'm still going to buy it and will probably enjoy it, but with DA:O I thought the ME2 thing was just for Mass Effect but now it seems like a company wide thing.  I wonder what made them decide that customization and letting you play the game with the build you want in a way that you want are terrible terrible things that have no place in modern RPGs? "