Opinions on Evan

Actually, their strongest move is "Blaze", which is 320 Basic Attack and attacks 6 monsters. In reality, it is 340 base attack, because of Soul Dragon that they get in 1st Mastery. They also get AMP from the 7th Mastery, which is 135%. The skill, according to Fiel's thread, is supposed to work like chain-lightning.

Fiel's thread is incorrect for Soul Dragon. It is actually +20 Matk. Plus, Blaze is only available at level 160+ according to other sources. Blaze is their strongest single target attack, if you factor in EWands, but it does less damage than Flame Wheel on larger mobs (I think it's 3+).

The difference with Ifrit is that it's completely detached from your character: it doesn't get AMP nor a boost from elemental weapons.

Let's compare Blaze to an ultimate:

Blizzard: 570 base attack, 140% Amp, 125% Elemental
Blaze: 320+20 base attack, 135% Amp, 125% Elemental

With the stats that Bribery posted, that means with 20 MW and level 150, that particular mage will have 1256 magic and 997 INT total, which is pretty good to some extent.

Blizzard: 79977 - 99188 damage
Blaze: 47705-59164

Blaze at level 200: 66669-80637

So maybe I was wrong about 1HKOing. But they can definitely 2HKO, and then they won't have that problem that was shown in that video with the wyverns.

Except Blizzard does that damage to 15 monsters. Blaze does that damage to 1 monster, and is reduced by 25% for every other monster. Blaze is a decent single target skill (and even then it barely outdamages Paralyze when you consider their attacking speeds).

You're forgetting other skills, like ice breath, which freezes things directly in front of the Evan, and Dragon Thrust, which knocks back things (I'm thinking Dragon Breath on a Bowmaster.)

It would make their gameplay a lot like a corsair's.

That's great and all but it doesn't improve their damage at all. If anything, having to use Ice Breath (which isn't even 100% freeze) and Dragon Breath slows down their training even more and makes them even weaker than their Arch Mage counterparts.

Flame Wheel is going to be their main training attack until 10th mastery, which is supposedly at level 160. It's almost as slow as Genesis and has less than half the damage and hits almost 1/3rd the amount of monsters.

Evans don't get a spammable ultimate AND they're weaker than regular Arch Mages in terms of single target damage. Their only saving grace is the -20% Magic Damage party skill and that's really only useful at .