Norfleet
First Post
The real problem is that, outside of powerbuffing, mages are sorely lacking in goodness of nuking. The image that comes to mind of a mage in battle is the lobbing of explosive flaming death upon one's enemies, deadly energy blasts, and other such goodness.
Alas, my AK-47 holds more bullets in its magazine than most mages have of total spells to cast at most levels.
So you'd think that with such an anemic magazine capacity, mages would have a bit more punch, but no, most of their useful spells are either the soon-to-be-nerfed long-duration buffs, or incredibly lame save-or-die attacks which tend to automatically work against YOU because your saving throws are blatantly rigged, and tend to automatically fail because it's an unwritten rule that real enemies never fail saving throws. If an enemy fails a saving throw and dies like that, it's a pretty sure bet he wasn't anyone important.
The amount of flaming nuclear death in a mage's arsenal, even at levels where save-or-die starts becoming available, is limp-wristed at best.
Alas, my AK-47 holds more bullets in its magazine than most mages have of total spells to cast at most levels.
So you'd think that with such an anemic magazine capacity, mages would have a bit more punch, but no, most of their useful spells are either the soon-to-be-nerfed long-duration buffs, or incredibly lame save-or-die attacks which tend to automatically work against YOU because your saving throws are blatantly rigged, and tend to automatically fail because it's an unwritten rule that real enemies never fail saving throws. If an enemy fails a saving throw and dies like that, it's a pretty sure bet he wasn't anyone important.
The amount of flaming nuclear death in a mage's arsenal, even at levels where save-or-die starts becoming available, is limp-wristed at best.