Mages have a major problem

[Triumph]

Pretty soon the delay between spells will decrease.

You get more spells as you level. But the manual casting made me switch classes in CB2 lol.

[Terranwolf]

Hmm, the only problem I've had so far is that the cooldown empower is bugged, so half (or more) of the time it won't work.

[secbro20]

Every RPG ive played made you press a button to cast a spell. And mages always had a basic attack of melee, so its not like this is any different. Mages deal the most damage anyway so....:P

[JimJimster]

i guess im all alone on this one lol

another point is that almost nobody buys skill lvl upgrades for magic missle either, so maybe ill settle for making magic missle lvl 1 auto repeating

watever ill just hav to deal with it then

[Blaaaaaaaah]

Well I do kind of agree with you in a way. I would love to have an auto attack that is not melee. I mean, we can hardly tank them compared to other classes, and having a melee auto attack is a pain!

But yeah, almost all the other mmorpgs are like that, so I doubt we'll be able to get that change. D: Maybe they could do what FlyFF does, and have wands doing ranged auto-attacks while staff with melee attacks. I don't mind that either. xD

However, both are probably going to do very little damage anyway, so I think I'll just stick to the spells even if we do get ranged auto-attacks.

[JimJimster]

id be up for that as well, i use wands

this is the reason im gonna do full end mage because we cant tank with an auto attack that does 11 damage

[Antagonist]

I don't really see any need to go full END. END is good for AoE, but even putting all of your points into it is far too much. Later on, you'll want to party up with a tank and a cleric. You won't be getting hit as much, so it defeats the purpose of getting END as a mage, anyway. If you're going to solo a lot, it wouldn't hurt, but I don't see many mages solo-ing at a high level.

On another note, Magic Missile works very well. We don't really need a ranged auto-attack.

[Yosei]

Its like that for almost all MMOs. Its not that they need to decrease the amount of damage, its the time it takes before you can cast the spell again. Or give us more spells.

[Bao]

Simply put, if you don't like a mage, don't play it.

=]

[hansmartin]

I don't really look at this as a problem, honestly. They take that much damage before I don't actually care...