well first off i must admit ( like in many other similar games ) magic again is superior to the sword as much as i would not like to admit and in a magicians case all you need is experience and skill points... the rest is up to your ability to dance around and cast, but to a warrior his wpn and armour IS his lifespan unless ofcourse you make do with less... pause every .4 seconds to heal up while saving in battle (so you dont have to start all over again against a very difficult foe) and if you dont have the proper equipment your doing alot of pausing and loading because your out matched, not because a missuse of skills and stats but because your equipment is inferior to the task. normaly you should just leave and go to a easyer area well, in my case there ARE not easy areas because ive done just about everything else there is to be done that would be easyer... so then your just stuck using the space bar as an artist would use a paint brush touching a thousand strokes before the picture is finished... and often times you missjudge mess up or what have you so then you just do it all over again... cuz you have NO other option... there is NO other good equipment to use because youve been to every nook and cranny that you go... but with a magician you have wayyyyyyyyyyy more options at your disposal. i guess im juse dissapointed with the way they've created the loot charts and how they created some of the more prospectable merchants with gear that is... lacking of any feesable power. maybe im wrong... what do you think kiya?