People are just trying to help.
Getting rid of magic and physical armor takes so much time and regulary puts all my skills on CD.
It should generally take 1-3 character turns to strip the armor off any creature in the game (3 if your stripping the armor off a boss's strong armor). Anymore and you are either seriously underleveled or aren't using your characters to their fullest.
As well normal attacks and the weapon skill should supplement your skill use if possible.
Some skills you shouldn't even attempt to plink off of armor OR should be saved for more convenient times.
Normal mages CANNOT afford to be specialists. There simply isn't enough high power skills to go around within single schools, AND memory is absolutely important for that... At LEAST if you aren't going double wand.
In fact Cross Classing is the way to go now. Even if you don't invest in other attributes... A Fossil strike, fortitude, fireball, magic armor... will still be nice. People underestimate how much damage these do even at the base level.
