Also, drop mana cost of duel casting to 2.5X instead of 2.8-3.1X; that's the real reason mages are being weak late game. 3.0X mana cost for only 2.1 damage? oh yay at least i can stagger him. Who needs stagger when you can just NOT duel cast an have enough mana to KILL them.
Well that could be a perk in the clothing section.
Also another perk would be getting 20-40-60-80-100% mana regen IN combat as the same as you get OUT of combat.