Yes, the issue is not survivability, already at lvl 25 I see builds where warlock or necro is main do very well, one can take out plenty of mobs and stay up and have no downtime, but my issue is the time to do finish a fight...
I was hopeing there might be a build that can kill faster, even if it means that the mage is a bit more squishy...
I guess the only way to increase the speed of killing is to use aoe as much as possible - if I can kill 1 mob in 15 seconds, but can kill 3 in 30, I'm down to 10 seconds per kill which is much better... if I can grab 4 and kill them in 30 seconds, then it would boil down to less then 10 seconds per kill which puts mage on par with other dps heavy classes...
Hm, never thought about it before... perhaps that's what devs had in mind, mages have crap dps but can survive multiple mobs so if you kill them aoe-style, you end up with quite acceptable dps after all

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