[Rightclaw]

This is the price of being a mage. it is like this in every reasonable game. There's no reason to have wands that do moves that don't cost any sp as default, it's not what a mage is about. A mage is about high output of damage with skills. We don't have defensive capabilities, we don't have useless default moves...all because we have our spells. MM level 1 is your "melee," or your "arrow." =]

Also, an END build mage is useless. utterly useless. I've tested it. AoE mage? lawl...you wanna go and start AoEing the only mobs that give decent exp at the higher levels and see if you don't get one hit even with full END? Or how about the fact not only will one still one hit you, but you have mobs of them on you. It's just pointless at high levels. =p

There's a vid of a Mage AoE'ing spiders. It was alot of them too. o_O

EDIT: I tried to find that vid, and I couldn't find it. ._.