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What's not useful about purging buffs? You only need to purge a cleric once, maybe twice to get rid of both his pt buffs. And then you go crazy with nova, inferno... etc.
Mana burn can still be used effectively when you're the only mage. It does screw up fighters because, if you haven't noticed, we do use up a LOT of SP and we don't expect that mages use mana burn because most of them don't during wars. It catches us off-guard for a moment, but whatever buys you time so you can run away or cast fear or whatever...
I've seen mages being used quite tactically in pvp. For instance, you use the map to your advantage to crowd your enemy into a space and bombard them with nova to slow them, then inferno. Put the fighters on the front line to deva. And so forth. Works magically, no pun intended. Stifle also will inevitably annoy fighters greatly since we are not used to any delay in our attacks.
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