thinking of playing with a mage, are they worth it? are they fun to play and all that jazz or boring and hard to level up. Imput appreciated

I personaly dont like mages, best classes in my opinion are the berserker kit for warrior and the swash buckler kit for the theif. Berserkers are the best melee fighters in the game(In my humble opinion). Swashbucklers keep getting lower and lower ar and thaco not anywhere near a fighter but they get all those cool things like detect traps, hide in shadows, set traps and so on and so forth...

mage are worth playing but u must give them high dex no armor

I asked a similar a question when I first bought BG2 and the advice was; choose a half-elf multiclass fighter/mage. The reasoning was simple; you get good combat bonuses and can wear armour so you can get stuck in. After a while, you can experiment with the mage half of the character as time goes by. The only drawback is that you need to have a reasonably high character ability roll. Choosing which spells to have at the beginning can be a pain if you don't know much about spells. Of the spells you choose during character creation, I would definitely choose lvl 2 spell BLUR if you are going to choose the aforementioned character type. This spell can be cast multiple times and can make a fighter/mage almost invulnerable. IMHO. Hope that helps. Note you need to take off armor if you want to cast spells.

Mage is fun as hell. I go with a human mage (no spec here).
magic missile and stuff rules

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Depends on how you like to play the game. If you like steaming in alot then a fighter class is going to be more fun for you. If you like strategy then a mage is just great to use. Personally I like using a sorcerer - as Memnoch once put it they are the quintissential battle mage. They can take be used for long range "softening up the target" and following up with yr fighters or cleaning up with a few fireball nukes of yr own!

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Nothing can beat a mage a high levels solo!!!!
Try dual classed from a fighter or multiclassed(less prefereable)

Human Mage is a lot of fun. First of all, I think, and this is just personal, that it is more appropriate than most other classes for a child of Bhaal, but then again, look at Sarevok. Anyway, at high level they are REALLY powerful, and I think just a lot more fun to roleplay than most classes. Intellectual and cerebral, there are many aspects to a mage, and while you could say the same about most, "fighters" and "clerics" and the like just never seemed to appeal to me, I know there are lots of gimmicks and subclasses, but they still just seem to blah. Well, thats my two cents, call me crazy.

Mages (and Sorcerers!) are very fun to play. I like a more strategic game; personally, I find fighters quite dull (unless they are fighter/mages).

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Well, I'm currently going through with a dual class Swashbuckler/Mage; I dual-classed after L10 (probably a bit earlier than optimal).

It's somewhat harder than a fighter class because many of the solutions to problems are "kill this monster". But the stronghold is definately the coolest, and with bracers of defense, you have the same AC as plate mail, and in the later stages can get protection of +4. In fact, you get to finish even better if you dual-class, because there is a suit of elven chain+4 held by the black dragon which you can cast spells in.