Am I missing something? The game doesn't feel ... fun

[Swimfan91]

first off what level are you

and most importantly what Are you doing? Black mage is the actual highest damage dps (maybe on par with samurai)

you might also have bad gear, so even doing your rotation well it greatly affects your damage. you should be upgrading your gear every 5 levels, and your weapon is your more important piece of gear too so upgrade that first

As my profile on the left suggests: I'm a level 16 Thaumaturg and I have level 15 equipment. I have basically been spamming Fire non-stop for the past hours, using Ice to regain MP and occasionally used Lightning on enemies with high HP (eventhough I'm not sure that it makes a real difference dps-wise?!). This is way more boing than any other mage character in any game I have ever played ... or so it feels right now :-/ I feel really discouraged eventhough I really want to play BGM in this game ....

I think I'm just frustrated because I really thought that my damage in that first pirate's den dungeon should have been higher when I couldn't see my spells making any difference in reality. All that mattered was that paladin and the priest healing him. I did something like 1/20 dmg to trash mob's health bar with one fire while the everyone else attacking did waaaay more.