KiloVictor,Apr 29 2005, 04:47 AM Wrote:I party regularly with a fire/arcane mage, and his combination of quick-cast snares, immobilizers, and burst damage is incredible. A quick chain of flamestrike, IAE spam, blast wave, frost nova, blink, and blizzard leaves a whole lot of mobs standing there ready to be knocked over with a feather. Which he does with cone of cold, if need be.
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Ha! That's exactly the kind of mobility I think of. Thanks KV! I've seen good.... nay, great and godly mages duel. My favorite mage is 3rd in standing in PvP contribution. He has both time and skill to do it. The top two are rogue and shaman, and they party together... but Veet... he dances better than almost everyone. Oh and guys, when I was talking about men who had thousands of kills and tens of thousands (quickly approaching hundreds of thousands) of contribution points, this is the guy. He dances, he keeps mobs mesmerized with his quick and practiced steps.
As an aside: I've only pvp'ed moderately while questing, and spent only one day actually pvp'ing. Still much more than what I saw in stormrage. My contribution is around 8-9k with a 300 odd kills, and a 356 standing. Some of those alliance in Stormrage have barely 2-3k contrib and much higher standing... eww. They wouldn't make past scout, maybe grunt on my server.
The mages dance of death is what makes a mage great. Thinking he must stand around stiff... just kills the mage potential. Mages aren't warriors. They aren't pawns. They're knights and bishops that swoop in fast at range and swoop out. They play with instants, range, momentum and enemy speed.
Skan, if you don't wish to dance, don't come to the party, but don't deny others can dance and spectacularly.
I should've caught this earlier:
Quote:Teleports for convenience, but that doesn't really apply in combat.
I assume here you mean Blink.
Here's where you're missing out. PvP and Duels particularly hone your mobility skills, and sadly on a PvE server you seem to have been able to completely ignore them. Without said dance of death, mages would seem utterly bland in comparison.