Raid class Wiz / Mage

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If it’s a long ass velious fight where a mage can use its pet and it’s not super resistant, a mage can beat out a wizard with bane nukes. If resistant and the fight drags on way too long a mage can win. With high raid dps a wizard can dump dps faster than a mage + pet could hope to keep up.

More realistically:

Heavy aoe fight where pet dies? Mage is a rodbot.
Too dangerous to have a pet out? Mage is a rodbot.
Kunark mob? They die so fast wizard nukes are OP.

Wizards have lures, banes, and heavy hitting nukes. Pet advantage is often not possible due to raid dynamics. Mages have no lure style nukes.

In velious it’s mostly about melee dps and, if available, charm dps. Mobs have too much hp for a mana bar to realistically compete unless total raid dps is sufficiently high that mobs don’t drop before blue mana bar dps is exhausted.