Uhh... Magic not having a big presence in the story at all? I can easily think of six characters in the 3.0 questline that are pretty big deals and all use magic. Look at the scions alone, the majority of the big name Scion NPCs are ALL mages of some form, as a matter of fact Thancred and Yda are the only two non mage Archons, so if anything I think that should explain why the DoW Jobs are getting some love here.