[HaTeD]

Absolute hard agree with moving evasion ignore onto lv3 on one condition:  mages need more ways to hit. Magic is in a weird spot right now since people are encouraged to either lv1 Excel spam, Explosion spam, Custome magnetize, or use spelledge weapons since they get better base hit and weapon parts. All other tomes, which I want to use so badly for their interesting new scalings, just don't work since tomes are arguably one of the worst weapon types in GR2 for poor hit support. This kind of goes in line with the other thread on many classes lacking hit buffs, but mages feel it especially hard if they don't cheese it (in which that cheese ironically makes magic way too strong).

the class completely lacks ways to buff its own hit and the methods it has  to debuff evade are....questionable. Mage's struggles are the symptom of a system balanced around the winners being those capable of inflicting heavy amounts of hit and evade debuffs while maxing out their own buffs.

now this simply is not true. We seem to always forget we get a main, and a sub class option. Pair the mage with something.