I can only hope the dev team can figure something out to give mage classes some love in the damage department. I prefer to build my mages as Blasters, not CC bots. Can only imagine how the people feel who actually like having their mages CC everyone. Load up a mage with CC spells only to be able to not use them cause of armor.

Also sucks cause as a mage you have to contend with enemy resistances as well. If an enemy is resistant to the 2 schools you picked, you're gonna do no damage. Either that or you spread your character too thin skill point wise.