Talk:Ice Mage/@comment-23776419-20130926131513/@comment-5395153-20130926181453

Whilst I agree that an Ice Mage will beat a Pyromancer 1v1 and that Ice Magic can be a good sphere of magic, you may also want to consider the other side of the coin (quotes taken from content and comments on this page):

"Storm is pointless other than to nerf Pyromancy spells, which is a niche ability at best" - although I disagree that Storm is entirely pointless, I have to concede that it is often less than useful. It can also be combined with something like Call Lightning and can maybe effect all Electrical attacks (not sure if it does or not) but its range of applications is somewhat shallow in my opinion.

"Anything that resists cold can be used to take an Ice Mage down without any fear from damage spells" - in a similar way that anything with resistance to Fire can take a Pyromancer down.

"Ice Mages are too fragile to even build a physical class whilst abusing Freeze Magic" - which unfortunately puts a damper on the Plaguelord Ice Mage's Freeze Magic + Leech plan. Also remember that the item options are rather limited due to the lack of powerful weapons which don't nerf Spell Casting, which makes triggering Leech harder to do. Keep in mind that the metagame is usually played at character levels of 50 and below (due to massive balancing problems as well as a small host of bugs that may or may not occur) and the Strategy sections on this Wiki reflect that.

Of course other people's opinions may be different so a lot of people can agree or disagree with points, but they're free to keep them and I ask that everyone respects other people's differences.