My opinion on tamers is no secret. You and I have always just had to agree to disagree on that topic. But with an uber fully trained super dragon droppin people from off screen with one exp/fs combo......I hope you don't really beleive your statement regarding mages. I'm hoping you just said it to get a rise outa people....like me.
If you DO actually beleive that then one simple question....Why not log into your mage? ever? If you can take 10 of us, as you say, on your tamer. And you truely beleive that your tamer isn't gimp or easier than a mage. Then you should be able to take 10 of us on your mage. When can I arange this?
dont turn my words around. it was your guy who said 1vs1 its in the tamers favor but 5 mages could easily beat 5 tamers. i merely asked why you have such a hard time with 5 mages (+ a few tamers i didnt even consider) vs 1 tamer and why your tamers are so horrible that i dont even have to consider them if they take no skill to play.
as why not logging onto my mage atm i just posted that a bit above. while i was training wrestling and tactics, i was able to play him, even thoo the template was a bit ****ty. but now i moved on the a few alacrity scroll skills and as i said, neither am i rich anymore nor did i farm any of the events to turn **** in. due to that, i cant use 1 alacrity scroll per day and just not give a **** about not getting the max out of it. so as it is, i try to get as many gains as possible per alacrity scroll.
however to get back to your idea, it doesnt matter how easy or how gimp a template is, its just a question of balancing. while a mage is very strong while in a group of a few other players, he lacks defense to take on a bigger group of other players.
to get back about easiness to play. i hope you arent trying to fool anyone. it takes a little bit of practise and a good ping to duel on a mage. on the field and running with a group, a mage becomes very easy to play and all you need is a handfull of macros. then the only thing that really matters is targetting and sticking with the group and group organisation. and yes i know, mages never like to hear it. but there are other templates that need skill to play as well. they have to time their stuff just as much, useless macros dont make ur template harder and other templates usually have additional stuff coming in like movement. and thats where we also get back to the template i play, the tamer. all killing someone definitely isnt hard, anyone can do that. just like anyone can target a flamestrike with a few mages doing the same. the harder part about it is bolaing people and running around between people that try to kill you, and not 1 or 2, im talking about bigger numbers. and thats exactly where your tamers do horrible and due to what they keep dieing everytime they dont have a group of 10+ people chasing the attacker away and keeping them alive or if they dont get the smokebomb off. but hey, im sure that cant be skill, otherwise your tamers would do way better ;P