[zericosmic]

It's.. really the only option if you want to increase your damage as a mage.. And I don't mean that as "it's so good you don't wanna run anything else" it's just, really the only option you have for increasing your damage, because most glove slots do very little if anything for mages.

Nerfing it isn't going to do anything except make shields the only meta option, and shields on mages are already relatively competitive meta-wise, or be replaced with smokescreen tech for evadies, something that is also strong.

If Idol eats a nerf it should be accompanied with more hand slot items that actually do something in terms of damage for mages.

Also mages doing more damage in PvE with it and potentially procing weakness, isn't a problem imo.. They're some of the few people in the game who can be completely invalidated in PvE content by mobs absorbing or reflecting their pokemon damage type, which can be only remedied by a rare ass 9* item that does nothing for them but remedy that specific problem in absorb situation.. I don't think having instances where mages excel at grinding a specific mob that is weak to their element is a serious problem.