And now you pick a terrain in favor of a mounted archer ... to show mounted archery is favored ... nice.
let's duel in colored forest ... lol.
trinkets boost all other stats too.
you got already +6%piercing resistance on low quality rings ... so imagine 2rings+1amulet specialized in piercing resistance vs your set specialized in bow ... it might even out.
and the point of OP was literally = "R I P all other builds"
He said, ARCHER, not mounted archer. An archer in the woods is just as dangerous to a mage. Because it takes less than a second to draw a short bow and hit you for 30+. A long bow takes 2 seconds and hits for 70+ on a mage. So you pop out to cast your fulmination.... congrats you just ate a 70 point hit, I cast purify or just eat it and bandi while you pop behind a tree to heal. I run up to your face and beat you to death with whatever weapon I just happen to have. OR I wait for you to pop back out to pop you in the head again but this time out of your fulm range. If you cast mental projectile I wiggle a little bit and you miss.... welp there goes a fair amount of mana. Your best ranged spell is HALF the range of my long bow, and 2/3rd the range of my short bow. I can shoot you and you dont even know I am doing it because animations dont render that far. If you dare to get close as a fat mage on foot, I will kill you with melee, if you try to stay at range I will kill you with my bow.
Mages are powerful BUT you have lower DPS than any archer even an archer with ZERO archery and a 120+ strength bow.