"MaGeZ SuXoR!" and Other Thoughts

[FoxBat]

I don't think there's anything that mysterious going on here. Mages when they want to, and have the mana reserves, can deal gobs of damage in a few seconds. As bolty correctly puts it, one or two shots makes all the difference with a mage. Deal more damage in less time and you're going to make monsters angry at you. By contrast, warlocks use many slow DOT effects and their minions do much of the hurting, and preists don't do much damage at all. (Though heal does cause aggro, it's not as bad as with mages direct damage...)