At level 54 on a mage 5-10% of the mobs were outright resisting my AOE each cast. I didn't look at the number of partial resists but I'm sure there were a lot of those too. I would say 56 at minimum, and the higher the better.
Edit: After taking into account partial resists, the effective resist rate at this level is 20%. On average you will only do 80% of Scintillation's maximum listed damage per mob.
The spell casting / recast time isn't really an issue. You will go OOM before the enchanters do. The mage though does have certain disadvantages over a wizard:
1. Your AOE spell is less efficient than Jylls. ~1.7 damage/mana on Scintillation vs ~1.9 for Jyll's Zephyr of Ice: 10% less efficient.
2. You as a mage are likely specced in Conjuration while the wizard will be specced in Evocation. The wizard will receive a 10% reduction in his casting cost and you will only receive 2.5%.
If you take steps to reduce the disparity like respeccing and maximizing the size of your mana pool you can successfully do DPS, but you will not be as good as an equally leveled and geared wizard. Expect to get the boot if the group wipes because you ran out of mana and were unable to finish the mobs.
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