What's the deal with mages?

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Originally Posted by long.liam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Monks are way better in small group comp. Rogues do more dps and can Rogue-Hide to drag corpses and scout for the group. Mages are decent dps in groups, but don't bring much else. Don't get me wrong, they are a solid class, but any class in their tier would be better because of the utility they bring. Mages have absolutely no utility abilities. Outside of decent DPS, they are completely useless. I want to point out, that at the time that Loraen wrote this guide, mages could still solo pretty well. Now because of the bugged/nerfed? aggro mechanics, chain summoning doesn't work, so the only place a mage could really function is as a ok dps class in a full group.

Notice you’re bringing in multiple classes to try to out do a mage. Mages check off a lot of boxes, hence why loraen put them in the top 5. Overall solid class, OP wasn’t asking about monks/rogues either.