What do mages really have going for them?

[Smellybuttface]

I played through all of classic on a TLP fairly recently, and regularly did group DPS parses. I have not seen any real difference in group DPS on Green from the TLP. Raid DPS will be different because of live changes they made to pets and DOTs on raid mobs.

Classic - Group (best to worst)
Enc / Nec (only with undead charm)
Monk / Mage
Rogue / Ranger / Warrior
The rest...