Starlear's Warrior Mage spell recommendations
Beginner's Warrior Mage Guide
So you've decided to become a warmie. The path towards ultimate destructive power is before you. But first you need to pay your dues, this isn't the barbarian guild.
Race
Warrior mages are able to use every stat usefully so you can pretty much choose any race. But if your not familiar with the game i would recommend human or Elothean. The human is the basic choice with no advantages or disadvantages. Elotheans have the mentals and reflex bonus, at the cost of strength and stamina. A worth while trade off.
Equipment
Warrior Mages get no armor bonuses. So the best set of armour for us is light chain. If you don't have rich friends then getting a full set of light chain can be a bit hard. But at least wear some cheap chain accessories until you can afford to ditch the leathers so you can train it.
For weapons the usual rule of thumb is you want at least 1 primary melee and 1 primary ranged. The most popular melee's for obvious reasons are the medium edge or the heavy edge. Since you can get 21 stone heavy edge swords and still have the option of going for heavy great slice heavy edges, i would consider it a better choice. But if you want to ignore your strength and stamina stats for a while then getting ME can be worth it.
For ranged, I find it hard to argue against shortbow. It doesn't pack the same punch as, well any other ranged. But a nisha bow can be loaded in 1 second and fired in 1 second. And if your fast you can machine gun a lot of arrows. I've found it to be by far the easiest weapon skill to learn.