Any other WoW mages

Crapping themselves about our lackluster talents compared to everyone elses?

Yeah, mages don't need a lot of help, good CC, good escape mechanisms, solid single target DPS, excellent AoE DPS... about all you lack is durability.

T

proud owner/operator of six, count 'em SIX Paladins, spread across 3 servers.

Not really. Anymore mage's get out dps'd by like everything. The main reason their in high demand is from their amazing CC, buff, and their vending machine status.

If your mages are being out-DPSed by any melee class, you need new mages.  Every instances in the end game has many opportunities for mages to boost their DPS to ridiculous extremes by AoEing trash mobs to their hearts content.

If you only judge mages by their contribution on boss mobs, then their DPS lags a bit behind Warlocks and well-geared and well-played Hunters and S-Priests, but not by that much.  In my regular melee group (Fury Warrior, Combat Sword Rogue, Enhance Shammy, Feral Druid and Ret Pally (me)) I usually finish third or fourth in DPS on melee-friendly bosses like Magtheridon.  Who beats me?  A Warlock, a Mage and sometimes the Enhance Shammy.

There are a few classes that can still complain about their abilites, Ret Paladins are too dependent on others to be raid effective, Prot Warriors need a better way to hold group aggro, and a few more specs need some help, but mages are pretty solid in PvE and are damned powerful in PvP.

T

lawlz

You play a ret pally, no wonder youre always so cranky.



-andy

If your mages are being out-DPSed by any melee class, you need new mages.  Every instances in the end game has many opportunities for mages to boost their DPS to ridiculous extremes by AoEing trash mobs to their hearts content.
If you only judge mages by their contribution on boss mobs, then their DPS lags a bit behind Warlocks and well-geared and well-played Hunters and S-Priests, but not by that much. 

Word.

When I played consistently (mind you, before the expansion), mages did a consistent level of dps, and since mages have some great aoe's they would always be pretty high up on the dps counter.

Any class in WoW can be great and useful if they are played correctly and planned accordingly. The level of awesomeness doesn't depend on the gear, or how much better or worse the classes' skills are (it helps, though), but the skill of the player.

Says Emily, who doesn't really know a whole heck of a lot about mages  :-X