You mean DO carry spellbooks right???
Spellbooks arent a weapon...you still use wrestle...and with the Invasion or clanins book available (10DCI on event 5DCI on clanins) you sure as hell want to be carrying one!
Edit: Why ninja as well? Im curious on that bit
Actually, if you stand at as a dueler's point of view, you will never understand this type of template... you need to think a wider level, like in an open field fight, team fight, dismounted situations, or any different environment.
Anyways, to answer your question:-
1. No carry spell book = because you are using 2 handed, so thus my point of having 50 ep = become pointless unless you are frequently disarming your spellbook to chug potion which is totally inefficient.
2. No carry spell book = If you notice, you just need to keep in mind of the following mods you are needed:-
a.) dci (60-70)
b.) lmc 40 <-- this is a must
c.) 50 ep <-- 50 enhance potion which greatly benefit parry mage as their stats on str or int do not need to be lowered by too much for dex
d.) sdi 15 <-- which is easy enough to obtain also by 2 jewelries slots
e.) mana regeneration <-- this is a bonus
Note: LRC 100 is NOT needed unless you really are one of the rich people out there that have tons of valorite hammers or barbed kits to burn
3. For why ninja??
Turdnugget got it correct.
mirror image and of course animal form after the 5 seconds passed which in case your horse is dead and you needed out of the dangerous situation on time
of course other benefits such as ninja dart, shuriken to disturb enemies or send trouble to stealth tamers.
4. To answer Turdnugget about the mana regeneration problem
- again, if you are looking at the dueler's point of view, it is really hard to understand this template. This template is for you to be better in the defensive side and supportive to your teammates as a whole and should not be acted as uberness in dueling.
Thus far, with max int, and enough mana regeneration on your suit, it is over 1 mana per second for guaranteed with this template.
Another interesting part is you might want to find out, whether be an elf or be a human.
If you are an elf, you will need at least stamina regeneration 2 on 1 part of the armor for not needing to chug refresh potion constantly for evening riding on horse back.
but if you are human, you would get extra 3 mana regeneration + 2 stamina regeneration so there is no need for 1 piece of your armor to need stamina regenreation.
If again in dueler's point of view, I would rather make a necro mage to finish people faster than using all other kinds of wierd templates.