Mage question

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The mages crank out some serious DPS, I am fond of my Mage in my 10box sidebar team once I went Arcane and once I got some serious gear for it. Until the gear I was seriously thinking of dropping it. Plus arcane potency is nice and hard to replace integrate in a lot of common boxing setups. I guess amp / dampen magic is nice too.

I don't see how multiple mages add any synergy, more than one is an opportunity missed.

Ya, but who needs synergy when an unbuffed mage puts out as much or more DPS than some raid buffed toons. Right now I have no clue how you could beat the following group in DPS

DK tank with ebon plaguebringer
3x arcane mage
Ele shaman with occasional spot heals.

That group would be pumping out close to 40k dps in T9 on heroic fights.

Edit: Of course, that is only until cataclysm when everything gets equalized and this group is mediocre again