"MaGeZ SuXoR!" and Other Thoughts

[TaiDaishar]

It may be that mages just haven't been given a diverse enough skill set to solo effectively.

Even though I am not in the beta I think this above statement is true.

Mages should have more diverse spells, ones with no casting time at all and/or have different range rates etc' that way a mage could solo using spells for each situation, for example:

When first attacking a mob use a long ranged powerful spell that will most surely have a big costing time and then move to things with perhaps lesser damage but significantly LESS casting time, like in Diablo 2 there are spells without cooldown that you generally spam between the big spell (Frozen Orb, Meteor, etc') something to that extent should be in here too.

Also if what Bolty says is true about mages' downtime (which I have no reason to not believe) something should be done about it, even if you are the strongest character on earth but needs to sit down after EVERY mob you'll become not very popular in groups not to mention it'll get boring fast.