Without the THM weapon you can't have a rave. I am pretty sure that is what the devs were going for when they made it. In all honesty though, nuking on a mage is damn near worthless at the moment unless you have like 10 mages nuking at the same time. I would rather they fix that over giving them weapons that will be better than the gear that is out considering even if it is better it will still suck.