cool spells, cool staves with wat i hope are unique effects to justify useing instead of spells.

Me either. It sounds something like "what's in it for mages if they svck at casting?"

Ah mages get Dam whats that thing..... MAGIC fool

Mages get the cool pointy hats of course, was there really any need to ask?

Assuming that crazy ghostly bow is the Bound Bow spell, then we can safely say that Mages get EXCEEDINGLY AWESOME BOUND WEAPONS