> If you've ranked up past that without a mage kill, sorry, your
> character is probably wasted at this point.

No way. From 11 to 51, a warrior kills a surprised mage in an eyeblink.
A low level warrior can kill a mage in two rounds wearing a basic regear set. More typical is 4-6 rounds, but all it takes is a bash or two. I've done it, it's happened to me and I've seen it happen to countless groupmates. A village app can run up to a ranking group, kill the mage and be gone before anyone notices he's coming. More typical is 4-6 rounds. At those levels half the mages are wearing academy leather.

So my advice to villager app guy is: just keep trying. If that necro fails his sleep he's probably dead unless he's prepping hard. So get yourself an enlarge prep and flee/enlarge/return/bash. Eventually he'll fail and you'll kill him. But really you should just focus on railing ranking mages. It seems dangerous, but honestly you'll be able to get a kill pretty easily if you just try a few times, even if it means dying to a group sometimes.