Why mage sucks in crea.

[Kurstag]

Just finished a playthough of crea and golly gee does it make me wana play again, i just want to point out a few issues while playing as a mage as it seems to be the weakest choice.

Some stupid things about mages:

Mage as of 1.5.5 does not have a end game item. what do i mean by that?
I mean that the final boss drops a spear, a sword, a bow, and a medalion. But nothing for the mage.
All the highest teir mage equipment have downsides. one eats your stamina quicker, one is for support (too bad i dont have any friends.) and another is just gimiky and not really effective.

Ironically the best "mage" weapon is a sword that gives your spells crits and causes the spell to explode into spikes. and the spikes actually do more damage than the spells because

*the offensive spells suck*
how is that? well for instance fireball. the begining spell is scaled to your wand. however usually fireball is so weak, its more effective to simply spam your wand instead.

the most powerful spell only confers a 200% bonus. but since you can shoot off your wand 4 times in the time it takes to cast it the spell is also useless. Sure it provides a stun but its so short it is negligable.

the only beneficial offensive spell is one that summons a ring of wind around you. but that is garbage as well. the true usefulness of it is the fact you can use it as a light source early game.

A really OP thing about mage:

If you get an enchantment that say something along the lines of
"heals you if you stand still for X seconds"
you win the game, you dont even have to play anymore the game plays for you.
you have regen and healing spells that assist with the health gain, and a defensive sphere that absorbs damage. so waiting the required time is cake.

All bosses besides the first can be fought by standing still.
so instead of playing mage like a mage i played him like a tank due to this extreamely broken gift.

Yours Truly, A level 50 mage with way too much ore in his possession

[killerwatz]

Hm, i used wind shield thru the entire game - not only like light source (and i have 50 lvl mage too ). With high intellect it have not bad DPS, not to mention "add % wind damge" enchancments. Moreover, if you find any kind of elemental altar (i found Wind altar in dungeon ) and activate it, you`ll get all your offensive spells transformed to this element, that mean upheaval become tornado, ice beam - wind beam, fireball - windcutter, etc. These spells not only have different animation, but different stats: Wind Beam, as example, jump from one enemy to another (like chain lightning), and after 4 or 5 upgrade become super long. Wind Explosion release shrapnel, and Wind Cutter become homing. So, there is some point to play as mage. And anyway, with proper grinding and upgrades you can beat all bosses, including last one, in less than 15 seconds with mage. Me personally never use over weapon, than wand with "piercing thru enemies" enchancment, and its rock as hell )

[Yotta]

You are true there could be some variation. So far all wands have about the same projectile. Only exception I found so far is the Crystal wand, which you can get at 2nd boss. (there you can't get bow, sword, spear, or?)
In my opinion this wand is better than the end game weapons of the other classes.
I used this wand for the last boss as well. Done in less than 15 sec (tested it). But there is way to improve it. Char is lvl 50 but I havn't decided for any enchentments for this wand and armor yet. Armor is still Agmore (silver bar).
Btw you can also combine weapons/wands. E.g. gather SP with one wand and attack with other
Havn't played as other class, but chances are high, mage is strongest class.