Disadvantages of magic compared to physical:
- much higher chances of friendly fire/turning the battle field into a enviromental effect hazard
- Warfare boosts all kind of physical damage, magic needs either to skill every tree seperatly or use polymorph for more intelligence (though at some point int will be maxed anyway)
- magic has two layer cc, physical one layer
- enemies have magical resistances or even immunity, physical resistances got removed, dodge aura probably the only big deal there to counter physical
- magic damage depends mainly on level, physical damage can be heavily and quick boosted by better equipment
- low damage, high cc elements like water and air are handicapped the most by the armor system
- because of the armor system enviromental effects lost a lot of their threat potential and got turned more into nuisance