[Zakizo]

I see what you mean. I think the best solution may be to go with your idea and make it so that all Mage/Evoker spells can inflict or power up the status within Rank+3 range, but only Mage spells gain the element resistance pierce. That way it's probably not necessary to even cap the reduction, and... maybe people will actually use spells like Isendo (which to my knowledge, no one even equips once they have Magaisendo/Isenshi, let alone uses). All of the Mage skills have a short range by default, so that should stop any major kiting from going on. If we go with all of that it would belong on Mage instead of Evoker, but I don't have any problem with that, as Evoker spells have CM to help with resists anyway.