[FabledWaltz]

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!)

I do not want to play something I hate. I am content with being a Mage. I am not content with the way Mages are treated. If they had any more AoE spells they would be beyond overpowered and there would be no point in playing any other class. Devastate... ugh. It stuns a group of mobs, doesn't it? I don't care what their cool downs are, they certainly are not long enough when they can easily spam their skills over and over again.

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?

Mages ARE supposed to do the most damage. As I said before, we serve no purpose other than to dish out as much damage as possible. Actually, I have seen plenty of Fighters that are not pure STR that can chop me and monsters down with absolutely no effort what so ever. Yeah... AoE spells... everyone brings that up but again, they're absolutely useless in PvP and close to being useless in PvE situations that involve just you and not an entire party.

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.

It takes them roughly a second or less to use their skills where as Magic Blast, Fire Blast, Ice Blast, Lightning Blast, etc. have a second or more plus the amount of time it takes for the spell to actually get there. And by the way, that is not include the actual casting time, just the casting animation itself.

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

Clerics are not supposed to be ranged nor are Fighters. But this doesn't mean we should get shafted just because another class doesn't have 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.

Archers can easily solo better than Mages. They can run around and constantly cast Nature's Mist without needing to stop where as we have to sit there and cast all our spells with the exception of Lightning Bolt and Lightning Blast. Archers would not get left out because we would be given the ability to kite. It simply means they're no longer the only ones who can do it.

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

I only play Mages. I could not care less about the amount of stones an Archer has. And it's more like 1/4 than 1/3 when it comes to the amount of stones a Cleric or a Fighter has.

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.

Fine, I'll correct you. You're wrong. I have not gotten far enough in each class to point out the pros and cons in every class but again, I play a Mage and nothing else. What is wrong with them is irrelevant to what I have ranted about. Um... not really and that is a good thing. The last thing I want to do is pull aggro off of a Fighter who is tanking. The only time it happens is when the Fighter just sucks at tanking. And what exactly can the other classes not do that we can do? I mean, besides Purge and Dispel. The former being useless and the latter not being used quite that often.

To point out an obvious flaw in your arguments, I do not need to advocate any other class since there are PLENTY others who will do that in my stead. Obviously if Outspark were to just listen to me, Mages would be the most powerful and every other class would suffer. Which, I would not mind but everyone else would. Again, I do not care because I am not everyone else but I understand it would have a counterproductive effect (more or less).

Also, do not bring cash shop items into this. I can not afford them nor can a lot of others but that does not mean we should suffer because of it. If anything, Outspark should get rid of them.