I made my ice mage with the intention of having an ice mage along with a fire mage. But couldn't be bothered leveling a second mage so he turned into a PvP mage.
An ice mage at low levels is OP in PvP, same way a warrior is at high levels. Couple days ago I dueled a level 130 warrior, and would have lost if I didnt have freeze. I'm 186...
i agree that ice mage is boring to level, and difficult. but its only difficult for me cause i have no lux :/ at lv 67 and things have gone to a crawl, i guess thats why i was stupid and made a bunch of alts

i guess to turn this post into something not useless i can ask, what class would (in theory or opinion) would be easier to level:
a lv 67 ICE mage
a lv 52 DPS warrior
a lv 46 healing druid
a lv 37 rouge
a lv 35 spear rouge
a lv 34 FIRE mage
or a lv 33 tank(ish) spear warrior
and i don't have a ranger, cause i suck at ranger :/
and i will keep leveling my mage (un lix) to get more gold.
and if anyone really wants me to, i can pretty much borderline spam the forums to show the builds for each char if anyone is THAT curious (i don't think anyone will)
the class u like the most, lvl it, and only it for now.
as for 'warriors were meant to be tanky', NO, simple as it is
i know many games where warriors are the top or at least great with dps, where each class can give a fight at pvp, and where warriors can be either great dps or great tanks
the only reason why here, warriors suck at dps, is because ppl decide for us to be tanks, and not all of us want to be that, we dont need more than 3 main clan tanks, so having all the warriors as tanks? just cuz they're somehow meant to be that way? seems stupid to me.
we suck at dps (well we dont suck, its not like we got low dmg or dps, but compared to other classes its not easy to outdps them), since ppl say we need to be tanks, and OTM make our gear as tanks, what if i prefer heat dmg over defence on my dl? dps skills over tanking skills? i dont use taunt, neither proc stance or def form, and as a dps warriors unlike other classes, i cant use those skills on main build, most of other rogues for example can have their dps while using dl skills + heat dmg
well its a bit off-topic, its only a comment about what u said, and again i'll say that, we're not meant to be tanks, and those who are not warriors (not u, but ive seen ppl saying that) shouldnt say that we're meant to be that way, i can say mages are meant to suck at surviving, and its better to give them clairvoyant armour, same for druids, and all those kind of stuff. And as for pvp, in this game, the pvp is really bad, its even less balanced than pve, so having an OP class on pvp changes from update to update, and it shouldnt affect pve, as it did for mages, complaining about ice mages at pvp will just help get them nerfed even more, the nerfs started from pvp complaints, i suggest to stop with those unless ppl would want more nerfs