Mages can do everything but they're also poor at everything. The game is so limited in AP that what are you going to do after you buff and use teleport?
You can deal damage and burn but those does nothing because they still have to go through magical armour.
You can't CC either until the magic armour goes down.
The flawed armor system completely prevent a role from doing their jobs because no one is there to break the shield for them and if you spec into magic shield break, then you can't deal physical damage. All they can do is heal and buff which doesn't require you to spec a single point into int, maybe 1 into Pyro for Haste and 2 in Aero for teleport.
Mages are the "Crap of all trade, didn't even learn a single thing in school" class of the game atm and only enemies can play them because they get extra free bloated stat that applies to their magic. (*Cough*, +50% Tactician damage on mage AoE while you barely have magic armor unlike them)
Last edited by Ellezard; 15/09/17 09:58 AM.