Hot Take: Mage is the most boring class.

The title says it all, honestly. Mage is the most boring class to play in my opinion, with very little to save it.

The overall amount of moves you have as compared to warriors or hybrids is rather slim. Warriors have a total of around 42 (May have counted wrong) unique abilities accessible to them through their weapons, mages have 11, and Berserkers have 10. Even with we cut out half of Warrior's moveset for being reskins, that's still almost twice the amount of moves mages have. Mages also have less overall variety in their moveset as compared to other classes. You have blast, explosion, blast but hitscan, leap, grab move, self-buff move, blast but piercing, blast but multi-hit, surge, array, and blast but pulsing.
That's half of the moveset functioning nearly identical to blast. Berserker and Oracle don't have such problems (save for spirit blast), this just makes the overall playstyle of mage even more boring.

Additionally, the overall playstyle is rather dull. In my experience, the best way to play mage is to keep away and spam blast/beam at your opponent. While this is certainly the easiest playstyle available, it's certainly the least fun. Warriors can do a bit of everything while Berserker is mostly rushdown, with few ranged options. Even spirit classes will likely have more they can do, with Spirit Wall being a great defensive tool, Spirit Blast helping at range, Astrapikis being a decent close up tool, and Spirit Walk looking like better mobility than even a mage can get.

Mages also have the least customizability when it comes to their actual magics. I could go into depth about Hecate Essence , but to keep this relatively short, it's simply unfair that Mages (and magic classes in general) have to venture to the dark sea and spend possibly tens of hours simply to change something they chose at the start of the game.

If most of the spells are gonna be reskins/minor changes to blast, and things like spirit weapons get the good ideas for the foreseeable future, where's the fun in mage? Lost Magics aren't to come for a couple years (and even then they'll be extremely hard for the average player to get), fusing all your magics into one attack is at least a year off, and we've yet to hear of any new rare spells being added. Mage is boring, and will remain boring.

TLDR: Everything is a blast reskin, even General Julian.