Quote Originally Posted by hallena View Post
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I would agree with you but sorry, having actually played on a static with 2 black mages as part of my group before I do know that casters have a lot of defense towards melee, mainly based on anticipation when playing properly, if you are getting ravaged by several players then you can't expect to be inmortal, I have even witnessed good black mages handling multiple players without getting facerolled or at least surviving enough to run or go back to your group WAY better than a melee dps can handle themselves alone.

You are pretty much complaining how on a war, a close range fighter has the superiority over an archer at close range, hence the goal of an archer is stop as many close range fighters as they could before reaching them.