[drewal]

I'll take a specialist mage over a sorcerer any day of the week.

While this is all supposition, and would love to test out my level 38 necromancer against a comparable sorcerer on gamespy - the mage's ability to respond to so many different assaults, and to attack in so many different ways will trump the sorcerer's spellcasting abilities.

Once the mage discovers what spells the sorcerer is using, the mage will be able to throw up defenses for those particular spells, and attack in ways that bypass the sorcerer's defenses. The sorcerer is not nearly so flexible.

For facing the scripted enemies in the game, however, the specialist mage's advantage is lessened because the enemies do not adapt like a real person could.