Mages absolutely can solo well in appropriate dungeon locations, or at least they are supposed to be able to; pets transferring full aggro when dying is not classic and needs to be fixed on P99. When chain-summoning pets, the new pet is supposed to take the aggro immediately if you weren't nuking the target beforehand.
That said, I soloed the Mistmoore graveyard back in 1999 with no root nets and without chain summoning. Other spots can be soloed like that too as a Mage. Careful planning and making sure to not over-aggro is important.
Without chain summoning working you'll be limited to areas where there's never more than 2 NPC's aggroing at a time (unless they are trash NPC's), but with chain summoning it's possible to break areas where 3 or 4 aggro at a time. The level 49 pets are very mana efficient, for 200 mana (less with specialization) you get to keep throwing a full HP melee into the pile; earth pet generally works best for the purpose of breaking a camp.
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