How bad are mages solo in level-appropriate dungeons?

[Snaggles]

Again, aside from the aggro transfer thing (which is more a guideline than a rule...its not 100%), mages are pretty bad at crawling.

A. You cant crawl with a pet
B. You cant really heal the pet at a scaling level
C. No CC (or splitting spells) outside root nets and earth pet
D. Just general mana issues, health issues, and NPC scaling

I love the mage, I have one whos 60 with some of the toys. ToV trains, group dps (non raid). It's very fun and not necessarily "weak". It's a point-and-shoot soloer though. Burn downs are necessary so its best to find single spawns. Or using as little mana as possible and poofing the pet, clean up nuking the low health mob.

I personally like the class more than the necro and have one of those too. You can't compare the two though, not in the slightest. One's basically a hybrid in it's trick bag, one is hyper specific.