Quote Originally Posted by Gnorman View Post
While I like to think that the mages are much improved, balance-wise, versus the wizard, cleric, druid, and sorcerer, I won't kid myself into thinking that they're not breakable. I look forward to any efforts to do so, and may even contribute some myself. Something tells me that the Green and Black mages may be the easiest to optimize.
Yeah, I listed a few ways. Basically, Sudden Maximize and the other Sudden feats are your friends when you get lots of feats and no more spell levels.

Quote Originally Posted by Gnorman View Post
I think reducing skill points to 4 per level is reasonable here.
They are Int focused, so they will still have skills. Ok.