The resist issue was always negligible. Wizard nukes have an inherent -10 or -20 modifier which is a fairly trivial amount. Until lure nukes (and content that requires them), magicians aren't significantly worse than wizards in terms of raw spell DPS. It's just that people back then were terrified of using pets in a raid, so magicians were told not to do it and it made the class artificially weak. Between their optimal DPS and later Call of the Hero, they're a perfectly decent raid class. Mod rods and the malablabla line can be useful, too.
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