QUOTE(orgolove @ Nov 13 2015, 12:56)

I hope that the "significant additional work" in 0.84 will mean that mages will finally be viable, even in lower levels.
I wouldn't get your hopes up about that. As you know draughts restores of 1% base mana per turn, and lower levels just don't have a lot of base mana. I'm not sure how much it would help even if they restored 2% like health draughts, which would probably be the easiest coding change to make. I guess we'll have to wait and see.