I don't know, but since ALL of you speak of wis, int and cha as the most important stats, a mage feels natural since those are the main stats for mages as well (while a good fighter needs a nice str, a thief needs dex etc). The benefit is (of chorse) the spells (I havn't gone further than lvl 6, but there I got this thing called "Chain Lightning Storm", and it does massivwe dmg to every opponent in sight. Before that there's mostly single-target spells, like Ax of Torment...), the drawback is the fact that the only weponds you can use is edge... Other than that I think it's pretty much the same... Oh, and when you've finnished the unbroken cirkle of Zerthimon, you'll get Dak'kon's stats uppgraded and a whole lot of XP... And you can reciev training by Ingus and get a whole lot of XP...
Übereil