for any melee pack you need countless variables to come in place in order to deal dmg. e.g. dagger needs to get behind target, need to cast debuffs like spite/hex hope that stigma is in place and then you pray your target won't turn which will result in facestab = 0 dmg. You need destros to lower themselves to fire his skills and then hope u won't get canceled/dropped by one f1 char-skill before you get to target to deal dmg. What you need for mages to deal dmg? press F1 (or whatever what button you have your nuke on) and just stay in place, you don't even have to run anymore, cuz you get TONS of critical resists, you get OL with HIGH-land-rate debuffs that destroys anyone who comes in contact with you RANGED chars. Now melee deal next to no DMG to robe users which is ridiculous and what you do next? You boost mages even more. Now not only do they exp fastest, they are best for any mass action(unlimited aura flash ftw), they are one of the cheapest to gear-up chars and you even boost them to be almost unkillable for any other pt than mages or boosted (using expensive gear) archers. You see less melee every day, they roll to mages or archers (if they have money) or they just quit unable to compete. You have destroyed this year's balance between classes. I just wonder why