I’d take a mage in a group as my primary dps over any other class any day except maybe a necro or enc who is charming.
The mage toolkit is just perfectly suited for dps. They can also achieve these numbers with lower APM than any other class which I think is significant as I believe most people do have an APM bucket.
When I think of people being lazy in groups, rogues usually come to mind. I’ve come across some that don’t even hit backstab every time. It takes a lot more effort to stay positioned and continuously backstab then a mage who can just send a pet in and drop occasional nukes/ds to put out big numbers.
If you find the right solo camps I’ve also found killing stuff almost easier than any other class I’ve come across. A focused fire pet paired with mage nukes can take you to 55 ridiculously easy. It almost feels like cheating how easy it is to kill something. 55+ is a different level of difficulty that can also be done easily with a mage solo if you know where to go it just might not be quite as fast as mobs start to get a lot more difficult overall.
There’s probably a lot of people who will tell you they suck because they’ve never played one or have only logged one in as a coth bot. And look up quad da mages if you want to see some cool shit they’ve done in raids.
TLDR - mages kick ass
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