Doesn’t matter what server i play on, i can slay with the firestaff/IG combo. i do think firestaff/Ig needs love though, but its def not weak.
What holds it back is min/max pve elitists, there are loads of people that refuse to bring a mage in simply because they will clear 3-5 minutes slower. Every weapon could clear an M10 except for maybe musket but people want the fastest clear possible.
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Its not just a min/max thing. Being a mage in a mutation can seriously gimp you. This is because mutations regularly have magic resistances. 50% fire void or ice absorption. It makes that weapon useless but this doesnt happen to melee users. Ive never seen 50% slash absoption for example.
Now sure if its fire, you can switch out the weapon for vg or ig but then as a mage you need all three leveled to 625. On top of that you are probably now missing armor weapon perks, so you also need additinal armor peices on top of that to be decent. Its doable but so its much more expensive. Add to the fact the dps is lower than other weapons and as a group its like why bother in the first place when i know i can get a properly geared spear or GA player easy.
I dont think mages in general are super bad (i main a mage) but they need some love for sure. A great first step would be to start adding in melee resistances in mutations to level the field.
I dont know why they hate mages so much, most spells are close to mid range, but the damage is lacking. My guess is they dont want 10 mages dropping powerful meteors (if they buffed it) on points in wars and such. But then again, obviously thats not the reason they are gimping them in mutations for some reason.
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Separation of PvE and PvP balancing would be something nice to look forward for.
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I’ve golded plenty of M10’s with my pvp gear (I don’t do mutations a lot so I have no gear for it), with good amounts of time to spare when I run with friends. I don’t think it’s quite as gimped as people think. Bad mages, maybe, there are a lot who play poorly.
It’s not as good or as fast as without mage, I just don’t know about gimped.
FS players are free kills 99% of the time. Their only mobility is burnout which has a charge up and can be canceled with stagger, unlike GA or SNS where they push a button and are instantly on the other side of the map.
I run extremely low fire resist and the only time FS is dangerous is if I don’t dodge the fireball, or it’s 1vX and they’re doing some cheese with pylon/flamethrower/pocket healer.
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I play mage alot. The dude saying FS is broken is…broken in a different way. GS is the current largest threat to… anything, especially mages. I cant escape players that are good at GS. The skill movement and haste let them run you down at some point unless you have a team member come help
Lol I always feel bad for people still playing mage when they try to run away and, with a single button press, steadfast strike teleports me five feet over to them and kills them.
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100% agree lets just delete fire staff from game its not like it will make any difference with like maybe 5 people playing it on my server.
Please nerf Firestaff, i play it for some time and I know how broken OP it is.
Sometimes as FS mage I can even kill some melee player, it shouldn`t happen that FS user can kill someone, pls nerf it.
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Yikes
i see that player everyday…
me 
Ya nerf FS. We get overwhelming invites to mutations. We are so OP nerf us more because every groups goes ya, a FS…
This is 100% the reason that all weapons and gear should have split PVP/PVE functionality. It sucks being a PVE player with a weapon that has been nerfed into the ground because of PVP.
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When people joke like this I’m always kinda scared that some may not see this as a joke :(((
AGS dont see this as joke but i dont care anymore. pvp in this game is dead.
Very nice work! As a fellow FS Mage (IG included), this was text book performance on how to survive as a mage while out skilling their opponent. 
Clutch 1v3!! really enjoyed watching that!
Clearly, the OP who made this post forgot how far long Firestaff Mages have come. After launch, we all knew how much of a joke Firestaff damage was until in February 2022 when the dev’s started to realize FS Mages need more love since melee reigned supreme for quite some time and in part, they still do to this day.
The players who have 20-30+ kills as a Mage including their combined team efforts in the above post w/ screen shot, were clearly against a team who were under performers, especially if their “best” enemy player was 9-12. That says a lot about their gear and performance as a team.
And I’m sure you’re very versed in min/max gearing your mage, you’ve got a pretty good handle on things.
For the rest of the players, they need to understand it’s take time and effort to gear up their FS Mage to play like you (kiwdahc) and hone their skills as a FS Mage.
FS does not need a nerf, (And I’m sure you know this). I don’t know where players are getting this nerf mentality from. Clearly, these players still don’t see the dangers that Musket and Greatsword can inflict in OPR or Wars. For players that believe FS needs a nerf, you have not been playing as a FS Mage main for long. Understand that a fresh out of the box Level 60 FS Mage going into 3v3 or ORP with sub-par gear and little knowledge of your opponents are going to dust you easily. Improved build and gear will solidify your gameplay with skill and survivability.
At launch, remember when it was Level 30’s killing Level 60’s? (good times!) It was about “skill” not gear. You didn’t need great gear to out skill/perform a level 60 player. Now and days it’s reversed. Better gear over skill will smash sub-par geared/skilled players.
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Lol good one
Why do you say that? Because he missed attacks? Lol
Yea this is best part. PPl who have 0 understanding of game mechanics and 0 skill and didnt manage to make any single build work for them before now are very deadly in heavy armors running ss/gs xd
I know at least 4 players that did run arena bow/x, fs/x, bb/x, ga/x and many builds and each they were potato. But now i get super hard times to not die to them on arena.
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