Gedonia mage speedrun test (not as good as bard)
Attempted a speedrun to level 70 with a full elemental mage with 4agi/3int, which pre-bard, was used for all of my speedruns. It was a fun throwback to old routes, but I ended up cutting it short at level 61 since it got to be over 2 hrs and was clearly slower. Bard skills are just more ideal for speedrunning in this patch (1.21a). See the current WR and leaderboard for level 70 at https://www.speedrun.com/gedonia