What if certain players don't want to be in a group, what if you want to be a solo player. That's the question with mages and a reason to believe they aren't op at all. When you play a mage and someone gets in your face you get dicked down hard. It's not a question of skill or can i possible beat this man with my magic. But rather you know you are going to lose with zero chance of counter play. Ultimately the only chance we have is to rely on our pets in order to fight back. Unless there is a change to Concentration then magic will remain a class where you get dumpstered by other classes. What people don't realize about Necromancy is that it isn't a Ohhh My god So OP guys.. Magic school lol. You still get bodied if a melee gets in your face, but we can blind you with necromancy school to give US a fighting chance. People aren't used to a mage that can fight back so they scream Op and please Nerf Death Hand too strong and stuff like that. People never fully understood that a Deathknight was on equal footing as a Minotaur or Elder Shore Prowler during testing and 1v1s. But strangely a dozen or so threads would pop up over the years claiming DK was Op Af. Very few people would claim mino or Elder shore was Op. That is because Necromancy is a Shiny new school for mages to get an you will see More Death Knights then players with Minotaurs or Shore Prowlers because you have to go find a Mino and Shore Spawn to obtain those pets so less players had the knowledge and skill to get those pets in Mo1. And Mo2 is already becoming the same thing players complaining over White Bears and saying Minotaurs and Death Knights are going to ruin the game. These same players probably never realized Dk was even with Minotaur xD And white bear is same stats as Prowler just less Defenses. There was a Specialized Spear Fighter build for Veelas in Mo1 designed to outspeed any mage and kill them with a spear because players understood even a Dex mage has to stand to cast making any fast melee build able to wreck your face. Because even if both players had 131 Dex the Melee Vella will win Dex mage will never get 2 cast off. Dex mage only chance is it's pet. And that is where MA defeat mages for mage reasons warriors defeat mages your arrows outdamage spells.
