What if you combined the Wizard and Mage?

[Vexenu]

Note: This is not a proposal for P1999, just a though experiment.

What would happen if you hypothetically combined the Wizard and Magician classes? Normally you'd assume that combining two entire classes into one would make them massively overpowered, but I think that the resulting class (I will call it the "Wizard Mage" for simplicity's sake) would not be overpowered when compared to the other WIS and INT casters. In fact, it would still be on the weaker end of the spectrum. Consider that the Wizard and Magician classes are both incredibly one-dimensional in their classic state. In the main, the Wizard nukes and ports, while the Mage has a pet and DS. Then you have the lesser abilities, with the Wizard offering some CC through roots, snare and stuns, while the Mage can summon items and CoTH. So if you combined the two, you'd basically have a Mage that could nuke harder, root/snare and port.

Suddenly instead of having two niche classes with glaring weaknesses (Wiz with pathetic sustained DPS, Mage with no CC) you'd have a single strong class. And even with all the abilities of both classes, the Wizard Mage would still be significantly less powerful than the Enchanter, and roughly on par with the Necromancer. In fact, in terms of solo potential, a Wizard Mage wouldn't be much different from a normal Magician using Root nets. Meanwhile the Enchanter can utilize massively overpowered charm and slow, and the Necro still has a huge toolbox of tricks. And Shamans with slow + Torpor are obviously much more powerful. The Wizard Mage, despite having two classes worth of spells in one, is still weaker in comparison from a solo perspective.

The only issue of imbalance I see is that on raid mobs, a 60/Epic Mage pet + bane/lure nukes would make the Wizard Mage #1 DPS by a considerable margin on most fights. To combat this you could simply increase the cast time or reuse time on those nukes by a degree that would place the Wizard Mage at roughly Monk-level DPS.

Thoughts on the hypothetical Wizard Mage? Relatively balanced with the other classes or overpowered?