I rate the F2P mages vastly inferior to WoW and the none F2P ones. To a point I don’t like playing them, love my mage in WoW. They rely on the root then nuke mechanic. But EQ2 spell have a long cast time, high cool down and spell miss. Makes it too unreliable for me. Like I said the none F2P mage classes are much better.
first up i never played the F2P version.
but saying that mages are unreliable in eq2? i don't know. Also looking at your chars you got a conji which is a pet class.
you might wanna try play wizard and you'll get your root'n'nuke.
on a personal note
i still think EQ2 is better than WOW but im probably biased since it was my first MMO
i also do like WOW but you just don't get your 24 classes to pick from which kinda gets canceled out with the different Talent tree specs possible in WOW.
Where as there is normally only 1 real AA spec in EQ2 (there might be a 2nd one for some classes).
speaking graphicly EQ2 is far superior to WOW (not talking about stryle) but i don't think there is still no computer which will run it at maxed on everything at a decent FPS rate, but this is also due to that the EQ2 engine is coded like a pile of turd
some things that made WOW so succesful:
-low sys requirements back then compared to EQ2, also the style of the graphics from WOW seems to be more appealing to a lot of peeps compared to EQ2
-you didnt need a credit card to play it (i know theres game cards in EQ2 as well but they are hard to come by unless you live in the US) I also think WOW is cheaper than EQ2 but not 100% sure
-EQ2 low level is pretty much dead unless you get people to mentor where as WOW isn't
- EQ2 marketing is poo

- Sony in general is just screwing the with their community (which i haven't really heard of blizzard)
that pretty much sums it up for me really