@Morwen
I stopped playing sometime in early-mid 2009 to answer that question.
I'm aware mages were "nerfed", but I highly doubt it's as bad as everyone has made it out to be, it's just people unwilling to adapt and use the proper spells. No one said that retaining the current mage guild stats was off the table, it could be an option to have no specialization, the intent of this thread is to come up with ideas on how it could be done in respect to balance. As for survivability, melees have to run into danger to deal damage and when comparing a mage and a melee, each with no one supporting them, the mage has far higher survivability with almost equal damage output. I feel mages should be rewarded for choosing to specialize in one element. It just seems wrong that 90% of the mages are fire/water. I was under the impression that when a high amount of players are using the same strategy/build/what-have-you, something is wrong.
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