Are we just thinking they can do way more then they do or what. But we've had 4-5 mages now. The first mage was really good, but he got fed up on H Spine and gquit and left the team. Well we find another one who was okish, but he'd just stand in the middle of nowhere on H Madness spamming arcane explosion not hitting a thing in sight. And we had him go arcane one time because he just absolutely sucked at fire and claimed he wasn't fishing for crits which we all knew he was because he would never use his combustion because he had no crits, etc. Well he went arcane and oom'd in 4 fucking seconds on the first platform. No joke on that one, then said on mumble I'm oom sorry can't pop time warp or dps. Didn't use any evocates or cookies or nothing to get mana back.
Fast forward to MoP raids and we have a mage who doesn't really seem to be there. He does shit for dps and ONLY does 52k max when we have our healer go dps and out dps him by 10k or more. Well, when the healer goes back to healing his dps drops back to 30-39k. Then the last mage we had was doing around 42k with 5k latency and says he's usually not that laggy, but he can't figure out how to work mumble and says well all my other servers I can connect to just fine use mumble. We gave him THREE mumble servers that were on three different hosts and none of them worked at all. He then gquits.
So, why is it we have such bad luck with mages. Are there no mages looking for a 10m group raiding Tu, Th, Sun 8pm to 12pm eastern time that use Mumble, has a mic and whatnot??
/endrant