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Hi it's me zora, the mage, I want to share my opinion about mage skills and talents, so it will be major rating, I will try be as fair as I can with rating I couldn't make accurate statement for the damage output scaling of the skills so I will just use the following 3 marks: Weak, OK and Strong. And will relay heavily on my personal opinion but i will try do my best Basic skills The damage from the skill is ok for spamable skill The special effect of refreshing blazing ground is useless, because blazing ground has long duration and low CD, Also the chance is low and blaze ground apply only once for each target The effect can be better if it can trigger overload, because overload is stackable Talent It's great talent, because it's not just a boost to mage solo dmg only but everyone else Teleporting is pretty much helpful and boost mage mobility and survivability and have good damage talnet: is is my favorite talent, having the barrier active without taking damage boost mage survivability by much This taknet is like having extra expert skills in my opinion The control duration is very short even with talent it's only 2.1 seconds Talnet With peak of reducing the damage by 10% it's very weak in my opinion This skill help skipping sticky situations and run away, also can use blazing ground skill after casting chains to slow enemies from coming back to you which buy you more time vs melee enemies but in pvp this skill isn't effective at all, can be heavily countered with resistance skills or ranged damage/control; so majorly it's flee skill This skills give decent amount of solidity if you have good amplify on your armor but the defense itself from skill isn't something to mention, very small amount of extra defense Expert Skills The skill allow detecting hidden enemies, it's very unique skill but still, it can be replaced with castle pots give 18% accuracy which is high amount Regen 7% (8% with talent) of max energy the truth is mana regen is no longer a thing to worry about after bracelets have been added to the game Talent consume only 2% of mana because you regen 8% from dragon eye 4/4; so that's a low amount, that that 15% extra damage is good talent to go for The damage is kinda strong because it's over time On 4/4 it stay for 6s on ground and last for extra 6s on target, which make it a total of 12sec duration and CD is 13sec The damage from the skill is very low. The range of the skill is very short The weakest skill that mage have and most useless If mage is in party this skill can kinda recover some of the low solo damage mage have because it increase his party solo dmg by 20% for each member, duration and CD don't allow it to be permanent unless you have 90% CD and can't be applied to more than 1 target. The stun has a very bad weakness which is it require 2 expert skills which mean that target has 1 second to react before landing frost bolt I never made this skill 4/4 because I needed skill points in other skills, but that 50% attack speed reduction looks strong (but I am afraid it's easy resisted) Idk what to say about this one, it just didn't impress me like other talents did The damage is ok for passive that's take no mana. But for expert skill I will say this is 2# weakest skill mage have after arua of fire In the past it used to cause damage with higher frequency, with blazing ground it almost immobilize the target but now it's weaker at that It increase the aoe damage only and not high amount too, dragon eye talent is better in my opinion because It increase solo dmg too It absorb even the strongest damage if it meet the right conditions, can give up to 50% damage reduction if the target hit 1 time every 2 seconds (like t5 ayvondil bosses) which make it very strong but the weakness of the skill is as big as it's strength and maybe even worse which is: it's easy to remove the barrier with just 1 attack, but still the skill can by you 1 or 2 seconds with 4 seconds CD Can be countered with bleeding specially if more than 4 stack is applied Also it's useless if you die before the skill activate (die to 1 hit) It's 1# surviving skill for mage, but the skill duration is short, it's 6 seconds that have 1 second activation animation (downside is can't move during that animation) I prefer having 6 sec of guaranteed resistance rather than having 10 sec of chanced resist In my opinion the talent can be better if it was 2 or 3 buffs each one of them allow you to resist 1 control and duration would be 12~15 sec Very strong skill (some ppl even call it OP) mage don't really have debuffs or strong buffs for pvp, mage have a this skill which remove buffs from enemies so it's 1# pvp skill for mage Those 3 talents you find them in branches taknet and can only choose 1 they all do almost the same thing but in different ways They increase the damage of mage The third one (pyromaniac), is more special than the others and also more situationally than the others, I tried to think how to use it, I think it will be excellent for t5 ayvondil, because with depth fury you can 1 shoot almost any mob there but idk if it will help with anything else General recover (over all rate) solo damage: low to medium Aoe damage: very strong damage over time Defensive stats: it's ok (4/10) Survivability: high because mage have anti burst skills which can buy you some seconds and good damage over time so with lifesteal can maintain HP but still not immortal and can be countered with stuns Performance in early game: very bad, mage don't have healing or shield skill and low damage (which lead to being very hard to quest) Performance in late game: mage have high sustainability and very good aoe damage Difficulty: mage is pretty much simple class but require tapping on skills on rate around 40~45 Tap per minute (very high) Cost: mage is high gear dependent so it's expensive class it's kinda like mage doesn't belong to spell caster classes because he doesn't have enough supporting skills or controls and doesn't belong to damager classes because of low solo solo dmg and ofc he isn't a tank because don't have aggro skill or tanking/damage reduction skills If you reached this point then I would like to say thanks for your time

Hi everyone i just want to give my opinion about the update, i will start with the passive for whole choosen classes Spirituality Now the skill increases the maximum health by 4%, physical and magical strength by 2% for the character. This is actually better than the old one. I am not going to give my opinion about all skills because many of them are just have new damage calculation formula like this below:- So there are more interesting changes to talk about like the dragon eye rebalance Dragon Eye Reduced the cooldown of the skill from 30 sec. to 25 sec. The skill can now only be used on yourself or party members. skill no longer increases the “Attack Speed” parameter of the character. The duration of the effect has been increased: from 10 \ 12 \ 14 \ 16 sec., to 24 \ 26 \ 28 \ 30 sec. Now the chance of detecting the enemy decreases depending on the distance to the target: the further the target, the lower the chance Permanent dragon eye, this is something i always wanted to see, attack get remove but i am not intrested in it, so it's win win, i didn't try the invisibility part more than 1 time but it look like the one, also i noticed that dragon eye talent (excess energy) now buff the damage of shattered stone and time warp now; i believe it didn't do before. Next is ennoble Ennoblement Skill effect no longer removes DOT-damage effects from the target. This is lethal but....ok And ethereal barrier get a buff Ethereal Barrier Adjusted the damage accumulation time for activating the protective barrier: from 2 sec. to 3 sec. Reduced the amount of damage required to activate the protective barrier: from 25 \ 20 \ 15 \ 10% of maximum health, to 20 \ 16 \ 12 \ 8%. Increased the duration of the protective barrier: from 0.25 \ 0.35 \ 0.45 \ 0.55 sec., now 0.3 \ 0.4 \ 0.5 \ 0.6 sec. Now it's easier to tigger....kinda not big difference but least now it's good if 3/4 And finally i want to mention this line:- Added limit for maximum number of PvE-targets: 8 \ 10 \ 12 \ 14. This.....have been addded to all aoe skills This is alot, it's a massive nerf, it will make huge impact on pve mage potentials, as long you don't fight more than 6 mobs you will be alright; but from infinity number of mobs to just 6 for basic skills and 8 for expert skills You can spend your skill points on them but this will make you very vulnerable to death (you will lose your control skills = chains, and survivability skills = sun armor / ennoble / ethereal barrier) I disagree with this massive nerf for pve, mage damage on single target is very low, not even 1/3 of the physical classes, mage is specialist in aoe dmg so this is a massive nerf