mages

As an alt mages are popular because melee/tanks/healers often want to get the furthest away from that playstyle and mages are the purest dps caster with the fewest moving parts.

Being an Elder was boss, but stealing from mages in Occlo with my thieves guild in Baja.

One thing mages have going for them is a large number of viable race combinations.

As for mages, they are probably the most popular as most players have at least one as an alt for various reasons.

Any speculations as to why is welcome (are people who play Mages more creative?

I wondered what obscure part of the SVG spec included fel mages for a minute, damn sans serif.

On the other hand, there are things warriors can do that mages cannot.

Let's say you have three Red Mages and no one needs healing.

You could even steal reagents from mages and prevent them casting.

Being an EVE player and lover, I still think this would be even more awesome with the good old knights and mages...

Her fiery nature and quick wit often put her at odds with the strict, ancient traditions, earning her a certain notoriety among the academy's elder mages.

Usually took like 4 mages to take it down...

Caveat: "Infinite are the arguments of mages." My current favorite programming font is Inconsolata, but I'm being swayed by Source Code Pro.

I can only offer the personal experience that the mages I group with in public groups are the most likely to be assholes who wipe the group, which I suppose is another way of saying "independent-minded".

I believed that the most important software (operating systems and really large tools like the Emacs programming editor) needed to be built like cathedrals, carefully crafted by individual wizards or small bands of mages working in splendid isolation, with no beta to be released before its time.” So the Unix-philosophy small tools that constitute an important part of the GNU project are excluded.

The once-renewable license to practice magic, a privilege granted by the Council of Mages, was on the cusp of expiration.

Let's say you have a team of all Red Mages.

I actually reserved my most creative names for Mages.