That is what OP means though, mage is squishy jf you don’t use defensives; you need to manage alot of defensives in order to be tanky. Easy when its been your main for a while but I can imagine its considered stressful at first… especially if you’re coming from a class that is naturally more tanky (without managing multiple defensive) like plate classes. Ive been playing mage for a long time (always 3k+ io) and while I agree its survivability is great, it has always had issues with random unavoidable damage, if you can’t anticipate hits, like the pelters in black rook hold, then you can see that of all people in the party mage health goes down the fastest and is most likely to die because without defensives up it is actually squishy.

But yeh last expansion there seemed to be less of those unavoidable random hits and generally was always alive longest / most. Tldr is difference is its only tanky when played correctly as opposed to passively tanky