There's a mod to shorten the CD's on spells, because yeah, it's ridiculous. Primal is good, but elemental seems to be better. With your ice spells, you can brittle enemies, which then enables rogues and warriors to do a crazy amount of damage on them. Plus from what I've read, Firestorm is the biggest damage AoE in the game. Or at least for the mages. I don't think mages are weak, they just aren't as OP as they were in Origins. The OP class now is dual weapon rogues.
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