Celtic Heroes

I thank all of you guys that could see through my sarcasm of the topic and know that I am really frustrated at the lack of thought put into a Mage. I shall post another topic today stating what the Mage should be like. With over 110 levels played as mage I know what is needed and what is wrong with him.

Another unbalanced ES angle.
In effect the energy shield is just another way of looking at hit points. As written it makes more sense for us to put our "hit points" as a function of focus instead of vitalty since we get the skills benefits of bigger focus. But every point of E is one HP it is basically one to one. in order to "heal" our HP we need to recast it kind of like how druids heal HP directly. However they heal 500 hp for a 100 energy expense. Our supposed powerful energy shield is one fifth as useful as a druids heal. Have you tried to PVP a druid?

I have been paying, or trying to play Mages, for my entire CH career. I started in early June 2011. I have been through the various updates and have had many different builds.

I haven’t tried the new ES yet and am glad I haven’t wasted the time and platinum, based on your feedback above. Mages are currently a very difficult class to level currently. I suck down Rest, Hp, and energy pots left and right now to stay alive or stay in the fight. ES is a tricky skill from the designer’s point of view though. I used it very effectively up until this last update and got rid of it immediately when I found it worthless.

ES used to be great. I had high HP and high Energy. I used a Shield of Spirits and the best Ammy. When I did use a Rest pot after using ES and letting the mob or boss take away about ½ my HP, the pot restored 1000 hp AND 1000 energy. I was a great tank if I could maintain some agro.

Cloak does seem way nerfed for someone who is lvl 100 and who has maxed the skill as well as the Fire Ability. It should decimate say a Shale mob, but doesn’t.

It truly does go to show that Mages were absolutely not worked out well during Beta, and now the live game Mages are trying to provide feedback to Admin to help tweek them. I hope they do listen. I love Mage/Wizard classes in most MMO games I play.
Tog