I would love answers to this, because I always have a huge amount of trouble retrieving from battle, especially when they have means of preventing you from fleeing(cutoff, parting block, stsf etc).

Lets assume that you can't just call in allies, or have a lowbie weaken it.

I play mages pretty much exclusively. How would you retrieve vs 2+ ragers at midranks, and at hero? Is there a better answer than getting a/b/s/stone/desensitize and hoping they dont have a scout, or spending 200 gold trying to heal through your huge protections over and over at the healer, after getting lucky fleeing early?

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