Mage are severely underrated even on endgame boss encounters. Your epic pet will be 45-60 DPS, which is less than a rogue but still respectable. Somewhere around an average geared ranger/monk/warrior. Depends some on the boss.
The thing is though they are worth about 1 cleric each on top of their DPS by making mod rods. They're very efficient at ~180 mage mana to give 150 to a cleric. Yes while you need X clerics to CH fast enough for a given encounter, time to OOM is what ultimately matters.
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