This thread was clearly never about this. I don’t know why you focus on this particular aspect where mages are 1 of a possible 8 classes in the game that this applies to.
Clearly Cam is trying to show that the amount of burst damage a scoundrel can do to any given class in the overworld makes it fairly imbalanced in general.
note that; I was asked to come and help with the production of the video as a fully geared +4 mage who happened to also have a vita potion on. This research has nothing to do with me other than I was asked to act out a scenario.
Not possible to bait a scoundrel at the same time as taking on 2-3 others in a real world PvP situation with all the distractions going on. There are definitely ways to bait in a 1v1 situation though… But we are generally talking about balance here though. Not every player is in the 1% of skill to be able to handle a 3 second burst shooting from a scoundrel.