I agree with you on this. I am toying with the idea of testing out this build. But it extremely difficult for me to justify collecting this 140 and 90 dragon armor drops for myself as a Mage, while the other high level mains that play the DPS classes in our clan are understandably wanting this gear as well. As a Chief, I am not allotted many selfish moments, aside from helping run a smooth clan that ends up benefiting me overall. I have to focus on a far horizon, and not short term goals. And speding the gold on the Lux required to pull this off, when a full update may come soonish seems redonculus to me.This is the melee mage build here, but it's so sad that mages feel they have to go down this route instead of casting. Something is seriously wrong here. Surely, if I wanted to go down this route, I should have chosen a rogue class or something instead.
I'm only mid level 80's and am sticking with casting for the moment. I'm hopeful that admin will make changes to the mage, as they indicated they would in another thread. I've got the orb, which I really like, but yes, melee mage looks pretty good at present...
I do really hope that OTM fixes Mages, and lets them cast again to good effect. Old wizards with Cane weapons should not really being in the hart of a melee, with all the blows falling everywhere, gore spewing, etc. Let us hide behind the "Meat Shields" and do what we do best. Support and throw and occasional Nuke every now and then.
Tog