As a serial Villager, I need to point out that:
1. If you don't want to fight a Villager, you pretty much don't have to. I'd say about 5% of mages are the conflict-avoiding
explorer types and they are extremely difficult to kill unless you catch them unaware in a bad place (for them.) Very often
they word right out of combat after the first lag wears off (or misses.)
2. If you want to fight a Villager, but feel like you'll get eaten alive 1 on 1, bring your friends. Sure, one of you will probably
die, maybe even two, but it greatly increases your chances.
3. Deathblow is great, but is DB really outweigh no flight*, no bash protection*, no heal heal, no q return, no q teleport, no
magic anything?
*there are exceptions