The "do well" protection mage on my shard with protection running 24/7 is simply one of those 60dci mage with 50EP that survive very well. They aint killing anyone worth their salt especially another mage.@kaleb again; define "do well". To me, a mage in protection is just fighting 1/2 second slower on every spell. That "do well" could be amazing if they used it situationally.
Many newbie mages thinks protection dropping 0.5 second to all spell is "not significant". It's actually huge. Your mini heal is as slow as my fireball, my lighting is as fast as your harm, and my Flame Strike is a tick faster than your ebolt... Mini heal at 1 sec cast blows buts. And unless you are fighting another noob mage, even tho you wont get cycled (you can NOT cycle them at all because your casting is as slow as me running on 28.8k dialup on foot 11 yrs ago) a good mage will catch your gheal and have a poison ticking on you, and even worse if you are fighting a dexer with fast weapon, he could have killed you before you can finish casting a gheal probably.
Protection mage is never a threat, and they have never been looked up as a symbol of "skill". If your shard is worshiping a protection mage, then your shard isnt exactly a "PvP-active" shard, more like bouncha trammies trying to "play pvp" at each other. Sorry but it's true.
Protection = Offscreen bait. Unless all the players on your shard are noobs who dont know how to pvp, otherwise you shouldnt be killing anything halfway decent really.
