[Vaarsuvius]

Nah, you picked a caster
You can't go wrong. More so since Mages get to have monk, warrior, wizards and rogue pets post 50 😁

You only need to worry about some of this stuff in groups and at higher levels. 90-95% of mobs before 50 don't live long enough for you to waste mana on debuffs

Mages are not complicated once you've died a couple times because you went pew pew pew a little too much / too early for your pet to maintain aggro on mob 😁

First rule of Mages is always keep your pet buffed: DS or use fire pet which comes with a fantastic built in DS, burnout, expedience/ velocity).
If you loot some 2 handed weapon, you might want to give one to your pet, you'll notice it will hit harder with it
watch your aggro,
watch your pet's health, it's your only defense/ main offense
Don't run out of reagents to summon pets in the middle of nowhere... Yeah, been there, done that. You will feel like an ass and waste time gating to a vendor & porting back where you want to grind

There's no shame in fleeing/ running/ Gating 😁 if your pet's dead, you likely soon will too

If you like pets and Mages, you also should like playing a necro who will have a lot more tools / spells/ abilities than Mages do

Druids/ necros can solo much better than Mages


Most of all, enjoy your character, whatever class & race you pick

Welcome to Blue BTW 😁