The simple solution: don't go solo! Become a lure mage! rethink your build! there could be ways. However it is true that mages energy usages need to be fixed. There have been campaigns out there that have been made by mages. In beta there were two testers who quit (I am pretty sure they did) and had...
Fingal to have to use his awesome dragonlord powers to change back into himself and slay all the cellar rats, so there were only village mice left! but they were so annoying that fingal eventually commited suicide, causing...
but before they could do anything the MBA's ass was kicked as Fingal came back to life. Meanwhile, the noob who bought a dragon disc for 50k was raging and decided to...