Lucasjung, pretty good summary there. It essentially stated what I agreed with so far. One thing that I personally do get annoyed about is the spell "Life Infusion" which heals the player or targeted player. This spell would almost seem to be overpowered to me, at least in a few certain ways. The first is that it is obtained from a quest that is almost always one of the first ones done by new players, and thus everyone has it. The second is that instantly after acquiring it and preparing it (purify, put it in the glyph bag, etc.), anyone can use it as it doesn't require any skill levels in the Crystal Way (I believe that it works at 0 although most have atleast 1 to start with). Third, it often isn't fast enough for use during combat which I agree with, but most have enough mana for even a player with less than 4 hours of play can easily heal a good 60% of their health.
With a combination of these three things the result is fairly annoying. Since it is essentially one of the few useful spells it is depressing to see what little useful things a mage can do performed by even the most uneducated person (in-game I am sure they are not uneducated in their actual life). Unfortunately the only way to get the spell more useful isn't available until level 80 in the crystal way. I am not sure how this would be balanced but it just seems that this spell is way to powerful for how you gain access to it.
