Your thoughts...

[Grim]

Don't your black-magic attacks avoid shields, anyway?

With super sexy craft eq and scaling on things like claymore/stoic/focused, the bar for hit/dam is set quite high. Ripping a comparably-sized caster a new hole is quite probable.

Evasion isn't some magic cure-all, shields still hurt, just not...to the same degree your attacks do. If they get countered...naj scum.

New tactic = grouping. :P Make some friends, get a tank, get an assister...like a fallad or healer...

A couple !magic places, mobs that evade/parry/dodge abilities, have moderate quickness to affect casters' accuracy, etc...