I am playing a pure caster so far, and I agree with you it doesn't feel great, although with spells you start with full willpower so it makes it a little better, whereas with a rage build you have to build rage first. Although I did see at least one skill that generates rage instead of spending, which may feel better that using the default to generate.

I'm not sure if you are aware or not but there is a Red node in the 3rd outer circle that gives you rage generation instead of willpower generation. So you are always generating rage, even when not attacking things. The willpower still dumps over on casting skills so if you do have any hybrid needs you can still do them. I'm doing this on my Bow character atm.

That's great to know and seems useful for some character archetypes, but isn't quite what I am getting at here.

My issue is that a non-hybrid character really does not interact with the dual resource system at all. Let's take a "pure caster" character, wielding a staff and using skills like Thunderstrike, Anomaly, Bulwark, etc. They only interact with Willpower; none of their stuff cares about Rage in the slightest, so they just become a fairly standard ARPG mage that starts with a high "mana" pool, burns it from the start, then has to regen using passive regen, potions, or (in Wolcen) basic attacks.

Just for the sake of an example, let's say Bulwark of Dawn was changed to costing Rage instead of Willpower. Now this character has to balance having enough Rage on hand to cast their defensive skill, which adds a layer of complexity (and thus fun, IMO) to the character.

I really, really like the dual resource system. I think it is the biggest thing Wolcen really brought to a genre I love so much. But... half of the character archetypes do not interact with it.

I understand what you offer. But it seems to me this is not the best idea, to force the same magician to use rage, due to the skills he needs. At the moment, the use of the resource by skills is optimal. If a person wants to use both resources, the game already provides an opportunity for this, you just need to choose the appropriate skills, and whoever wants to play not a hybrid character, this should not be interfered either. I myself play a hybrid character and use both resources, but this is my choice and I like it, but if I played for example a pure melee character, I would not like it if I was forced to use force of will on necessary attacks. Now there is an opportunity to play with resources and skills, it seems to me that this is enough.

Perhaps in time they may implement certain uniques that might change the resource use of a certain skill from willpower to rage or vise versa. It would be a good idea and a missed opportunity if not taken in my opinion for the evolution of the game.