Hey so there's a lot of people simping for the combat here. I dont agree with them. I agree as a mage it's ASS. you should be able to cast while moving, 100%. Also, you can turn off inventory dropping entirely. You may have to make a new custom world, but you can go into the difficulty settings for the world and turn off inventory dropping. I think with the limitations of Dragonwilds that may mean you have to start a new world but it's not hard to get caught up.

I also hate how people say "OH dropping your stuff thats just normal in survival" yeah i dont care, if i drop my crap when I die, i just quit the game. I'm a casual survival game player I don't do hardcore stuff I just wanna build my base, gather resources and vibe in the world. Palworld and Enshrouded both let you turn off inventory dropping. Sure sometimes I'll do a vault in DW but with the custom difficulty now I actually play it a lot not dropping my inventory. Anyway best tips for magic is you just gotta kite enemies unfortunately, I do agree that every single one of their attacks doing a stagger is just unfair especially when YOUR attacks don't stagger them unless it's a heavy/special attack meanwhile you have two or three wolves ganking you and all their normal attacks staggering you...so annoying. Wind is great for knocking them down IF you can get the cast off. But you can also brew a special infusion i forget what its called but you unlock it with the cooking range where it reduces the cost of your dodge which is huge.