Pure warrior with two weapons (600ish HPs, HIGH regeneration items, and 12 or 13 skillpoints in the top-left warrior skill (whirlywind? no clue about the english name) is much more powerful than a caster with a 13 or 15 skillpoint-fireball.
Thousand strikes on 10, two weapons on 12 basically kills ALL enemies with on application of the thousand strikes. Exception are the hardest bosses, they go down only 2/3 with that.
With the charge attack, I could do 1500 points of damage in a single critical (and I did not even think a lot about totaly maximisation), so I assume a "good" thousand strikes could deal out around 2000 points of damage (normal attacks would be 250ish to 500ish).
The whirlwind was doing some 500 to 800 damage near the endgame (and with the draining mana-ability I never had mana-issues).
My mage could in no way compete with THAT (and he already was powerful).
