New Mage, should I continue or pick another class?

[starkind]

One of the reasons I like mage, cleric, wizard, rogue, warrior, paladin. Is that these classes aren't very complicated.

Mage, wizard, and cleric all basically can just nuke stuff and afk. Especially with an instant clicky and nuke in the top slot this gets even easier. Fights are pretty short and you can kill a lot of decent mobs. So you don't have to have a really intense attention span or click a lot of buttons and rely on mechanics or resistances and chance too much. It's easy to reliably kill a "light" or low blue with these three classes and then forget you where ever logged in.

Necro, shaman, ench, bard are all way more powerful, they also generally require a lot more effort, work, gear, spells.

If you're a dedicated solo artist mage is definitely not really strong. Maybe even weaker than a wizard.

Druids can nuke/afk too. Just being a tree hugger/wolf isn't my idea of super amazing.

Mages can level fast, faster than wizards pre 39 ish if you pick the right mobs/camps and play to their strengths. Especially ungeared.

If a wizard can get good gear and twink items tho like clicky DDs and good +mana they will dominate leveling. Even charming is terrible compared to a solid quad/quintuple. And yes, I was killing 5x mobs at once easily. By 55 you can pretty much root/nuke to finish any incidental adds, extras even if oom because of good mana regen.

Now a lot of people don't base class power off of "oh, I'm naked and lazy".

They want to solo epic MQ drops or something weird in dragon necropolis or munch fungitunics all day. Or have some list of items they are going to farm. So they pic enchanters praying to waste as little time as possible instead of just enjoying their mains.