[Hessah]

Cooldown - You should play a fighter.. (or ask the fighters)... and you'll realise your CD is not really all that rediculous... (they get devestate and only 1 AOE that only does a one off dmg with 4 mins cool down!)

Dmg - we do do most dmg.. or suppose to... the fighter that u saw is probably a full STR fighter with an axe... fair enough.. they can deal MASSIVE dmg too.. but only to one mob at a time.. our AOE does great dmg. Take 10 sec to kill 5 mobs is better than taking 5 sec to kill 1 mob right?

Casting Animation - I don't think mage gets any more casting animation than any other class. Our spells tend to have a longer cast time though. But I don't think it has anything to do with the animation. Fighters most useful skill is Devestate and they had to swing their axe around their head before they stun anything too.

Range - After playing a cleric, I'm totally happy with mage's range.

Kiting - If we can kite better than an archer then there'll be nothing left for archers. We already have two better AOEs which archer's mist cannot compare to.

Stones - Yeah I don't understand why we only get 1/3 of cleric's stones.. Archers are not much better off either though.

Ending Comment - Please correct me if I am wrong, but I'm under the impression that you have not played any other class except for a mage. There's actually a lot of things a mage class CAN do but other class cant. Ironically, we pull aggro better than any fighter LOL.