The pros and cons of all classes.

I look at it the other way around. I use two Blaze attacks while moving with tele-cast rather than teleporting two times so that Mir teleports from his previous distance to right behind me so I could use Illusion. I always saw tele-casting as a great improvement on how much times I could attack.

I might be wrong and it would appear to me this way than it might actually be, but that's how I feel it is.

Well yeah it's an improvement on attack speed and movement, but my point was that because it's coming from mir, there's a range detriment because his mouth (the starting point for any attack) can be either in front of or behind you, reducing or elongating the horizontal range of the attack.

FP mages are less popular than the rest (save for BW) - how is that an opinion? It's a proven fact.
FP mages have some ugly skills (i.e. mist) - yep, that is an opinion but most people find it ugly so I put that as a con. Maybe I should've explained better.

I could see how popularity can neither be viewed as a pro or a con because some people actually like going for the unconventional/underused classes. But I put them with regards to general sentiment.

I don't know why F/P are suddenly unpopular when they've been fundamentally the best mage ever since big bang.

Opinions on a topic like this is some basil s'hit. Functional differences are what this thread is about, not something that literally no one can prove.