So you played a mage, but somehow missed that they already have a shield spell?

As far as the rest goes, I probably need to put together some kind of ABS idea form letter. No offense to you personally, but I'm not really interested in explaining for the hundredth time why I think an idea similar to one that's been posted before breaks more things than it fixes.

Edited to add: here's a thread where it was discussed to death: http://forums.carrionfields.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=25&topic_id=1824

You probably won't agree with much of what I had to say in there, but you'll know where I stand if you care to.