I love the discussion going on.

I noticed the fire pet ideas. I think that is a great idea.

Now we had a spell line that affected only our fire pets (Blazing Stance- http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=10767&source=Live ), and it kind of died off. How about resurrecting that spell line and ...

Now that I have folks discussing.

Lets Determine as a Community what mages DO want.

From the above discussion we have determined to leave the pet as is. And Devs don't want to increase Pet DPS, so that is dead.

We have determined that giving bigger / faster casting nukes blurs what we are (more ...

There lies the problem of why the mage stagnated however.

The Pet being able to hold named mobs while the mage blasts and raging gargoyles it to death is why mage DPS stagnated.

We are exploring ideas to increase Raid DPS, but Devs have already stated that they don't want to increase the solo ...

Ok just a few idea's I have had to address Mage Raid based DPS without increasing solo power.

---Pet Based Raid DPS Ideas---
Idea 1: Weaken the Pet, Debuff the Mob
A pet buff like Iceflame line, does not stack with Iceflame line (pick one or the other!)
--Reduce Pet Mitigation by 50%
--Add Proc ...