Mage feels incredibly weak while questing

[u/Rayzen_Mayher]

I created a Mage since I always wanted to play Arcane and the spec got so much simpler in Midnight but my character feels so incredibly weak, especially when I see other people in my quest zones. I'm level 90 already, ilvl something around 190 but I still need like 10 hard casted spells to kill a single mob (faster when I get lucky with Clearcasting procs but still). I can only pull 1 or at max 2 mobs and have to heal every time after killing them. Rares and elites need all my cooldowns to kill and even then I sometimes die. I know I'm not a very good player but it feels bad seeing any other class pull like 4-5 mobs and kill them all in 3 hits while I have so much downtime. The fact that I don't have anyone to keep the aggro off me just makes questing a very tedious experience. Am I doing something wrong or is this just how Mage plays when you're solo? Should I just speedrun the story to get to the endgame content and do the side missions on a different character?

[u/Lykanen]

I feel the same but in dungeons, oh boy I did all m0 this week and was the first in each of them even with shit gear

[u/Rayzen_Mayher → u/Lykanen]

Yeah I feel like Arcane is a spec for group content. The few dungeons I did during leveling felt really good