The one class that was supposed to be strong to mages/clerics, are the classes that the last balance phase made weak to mages.
There's a reason Hawkers are high in magic defense from a base point. It's not natural that Mages have an accuracy passive that's as high as it is, or that it's rewarded from their base stat [INT] which means it doesn't require specifically investing into.
You want Mages to be weak[er]? Take away their accuracy ratio passive, and leave the two baseline % ones. Ice can keep it's Dodge downs, and nerf the wind skills dodge down scaling. This make Ice viable, wind not as over powered, and in general require actual investment to hit the class they were supposed to be weak to in the first place.
Problem solved. Hopefully Pegasus will come up, and I can get these types of things addressed.
So since i also noticed that Hawkers might be the hardest opponent i could get ingame i fully build my Mage, so that it atleast has a chance vs em. I did go for high accuracy, (i know we have that passive, but trust me it aint enough since dodge nowadays has a reach numbers up in the heaven) So I do have passives, I do have wind debuffs, but even with my rune which gives me Acc i still struggle on hitting often enough.
Mages are ment to be paper canons, please dont shout about the Damage, imo the more damage u do in the game the bigger is ur lack of def, so its kinda balanced (check arti, huge damage and hit rate but it can drop faster than some people drop Zulie) (tbh they could need to be a little more tanky)
The Ice dodge debuff gives you 35% dodge down, what do you expect we get from wind? Yes on wind you have two aoe debuffs, the one u can cast from distance gives 25% and i know it sounds like a lot, but you will still struggle a lot with misses.The second aoe is one u cast around yourself and depending on ur stats so when u dont go with high charm for example it will have less than the Ice skill, plus u have to run into the crowd. The duration with 10 seconds is quite long lasting i agree on that but again imo Hurricane with its 25% does not make it way easier to drop hawkers nowadays.
Imo nowadays people more start playing and at the same time complaining about mages because a lot of mages start playing with range. So for example in dp there is somewhere a mage behind a wall free skilling, even with misses that mage has enough time to keep spammign skills cause noone is on it. Mages free skilling is pain, but so is a scout or an arti. The difference is that mages do have more aoes, but since the damage is split up, the damage is hilarious depending on the amount of people who are getting attacked. I used to spam aoes in wars and aa back then but since the aoe nerf i more go for single target to have a bigger effect, yes there are classes which i know i can easily kill, especially when they are far away or in a war busy with hitting someone else. If an arti turns its back to me i know i am on it and have it down in no effort (what about more mdef for artis )
I do not see the problem with "normal" mages tho who aint hiding behind walls, there is always a chance to easily bring it down, scouts can free hit me from distance and when i ran to them they cloack, when i move away they are on me again, raiders are pretty tanky vs a mage and can easily make it right beside me and stun my shield down or just dot me to death(i wont start with the stacking).
Bourg burns down my shield and almost my full hp, arti sleeps and stuns me and with the right timing gets me down without me being able to do a single skill.
I admit that i myself as a mage try to avoid other mages in pvp area, but thats only cause it will take like forever to fight vs each other. (ofc depending on the build, but except all the new mages, there are a few good mages ingame which u know and whichs build u kinda know)
Since there are so many ways of playing a mage, everyone has met a mage in pvp zone whichs skill build was ment to get exactly his or hers class down. But please again, know ur class and ur char, if you go with ur champ on a mage and dont own a mute, then yes u will probably drop