[Ralath]

I understand that better than anyone else but every class is party dependent sooner or later. Mages aren't designed to solo but they're also not designed to do piss poor damage at any level. Everyone in a party is better simply because you've got a team of people cooperating together to accomplish a common goal. In most cases, that common goal is leveling up.

Mages don't do "piss-poor damage" at any level. Mages will outdamage any class, any build, with maybe the exception of an axe fighter at the same level. Archers have to be extremely lucky with their poisons and their crits to outdamage the mage--it doesn't happen often.

I never said Mages aren't great until the higher levels but they're not exactly the most wanted either. Until the later levels they're pretty much on par with Archers when it comes to being wanted. Mages are weak but not so weak that people don't want them. Normally a Mage is strong at the beginning and can usually kill an enemy within one spell cast.

I haven't actually partied with the higher AoE grinding parties but I bet a dream party would consist of a Fighter, a Cleric, and 3 60+ Mages casting Nova Frost. At the higher levels, mages are almost exactly the most wanted. At any rate, I have never heard of a party NOT wanting a Mage if they have the room to take them

This usually lasts up until the higher levels when the enemies get stronger and stronger which is when the Mage must become dependent on other players to further themselves. This isn't the case for Fiesta. Normally you should be able to solo to level 30 without any problems what so ever but after coming back I just could not do that.

Levels are relative. Outspark Fiesta only has 79 levels right now anyway so lvl 30 in a game where the cap is lvl 99 is going to be different from a game whose cap is 79.

I don't know if anyone else noticed it but I did and to me it just seems like Mages are weaker than they were before. Then again, it may be because I am so used to how other Mages are in other games. Which means that Fiesta is doing something wrong with their Mages

Trust me, all you have to do is play several other MMORPGs and pick the Mage class. Then after playing them for a while come back and tell me how you feel about Mages in this game. It is the only way anyone would ever understand my feelings on Mages in this game.

Maybe there is a reason why Mages aren't as powerful as you want them to be. It's because Fiesta is more of a party-orientated game so while soloing is plausible, there is more of an emphasis on parties. In many ways, Fiesta encourages partying over soloing. If Mages could solo everything, it would make the whole title of the game redundant...