Mages Feel too Squishy

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Is it just me or do mages feel too squishy? It seems ok when healers are around and in arenas, I mean I survive sometimes then. But I was outcast by a paladin in a duel who kept hiding behind a pillar. I was one shot by a DK in open-world PVP, it’s an FPS game for a hunter vs me. Maybe I suck, but I feel like all we got is a weak cannon and worse than glass, instead of a glass cannon. Maybe I just suck too shrug

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Every heal/dps feels too squishy except maybe paladins and warlocks, health pools are just too low.

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I’d suggest making use of Ice Block and make sure you have it talented to heal you for 80% health.

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I use ice block, but I feel like it just prolongs the inevitable. While I’m healing to 80% they get a full heal because I’m not dishing damage. Or in the wild, they can just eat food while I’m in there. The whole reason I hit the oh crap button was I was getting demolished.

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You’ll really need to rely on your CC talents and Shimmer to stay alive as a Mage when there are no healers around.
Having said that, I don’t play PvP, so…

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Mage can be tanky, but it relies on active defense. To achieve that result, you have to use your defensive kit, and use it well.

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I dont k ow whoch mage spec is ideal roght now but three things:

  1. DKs are good against casters
  2. In the right hands, mages are broken but
  3. Mage seems to have a high skill ceiling

I find caster defensives to be unbelievably complex and not fun at all

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Which is why I’m a better warlock lol

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Sounds like you’re a holy player hehehehe

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“FPS”

Go fire and use your 10 micro cc’s against me to win

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Keep in mind we are still early in the expansion with low resilience. It will get better.

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I think you took a wrong turn at Albequerque, brother.

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True. I should probably pay attention to categories when searching popular topics lol.

But regardless of expansion mages have always been the squishy class. Warlocks are tankier.

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Warlocks are more passively tanky, but a well played mage is unkillable in retail. We have a 30 second CD overshield, a 2 minute 20% DR, a 70% DR with 80% HP heal (or ice block), a 60% DR also 2 minute CD that also makes us invis, alter time which rests health AND blink/shimmer, fire has a cheat death and frost has ice cold/ice block reset. It’s nutty. Oh, also…shifting power reduces the CD on all of fhe above.

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It’s not just you. Do what I did and play the better version of Mage: Destro Warlock. :slight_smile:

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Mage"s defensive toolkit is completely proactive (except maybe Ice Block); if you are unable to hit your buttons before damage hits it will not go well for you. But mages who know how to hit their buttons can live forever.

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It seems like most classes are squishy. Idk how people are doing 18s lmao. Should probably watch some of those streams.

I shouldn’t be getting smacked like this in 11s

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damage midigation as a mage has always relied more on finesse, sadly.

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Mages are basically immortal Gods when played correctly

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Well, it’s actually been a long time since I PvPed on my Frost Mage and I have to say I was rockin it. So here goes. #1 sheep is your friend. #2 Make full use of the Los(Line of Sight mechanic. and last but not least, play to your stengths, in other words make your opponent want to run away. Your a toon that rocks fighting from a distance. You have a wide arsenal of a toolbox, make use of it all. Hope this helped you out. I just came back a couple months ago and still being in that since of freshness I dueled a Disc Priest and just about beat em lol. I’ll get there, it just takes practice. GL :slight_smile: