Clock is much easier to use than gale is. Yea it has armor buff, but it usually ends up scattering mobs and making it harder to kill groups when death engine weapons like skratch staff start to proc. If you do end up going with gale, use the push to group mobs instead of scattering them. It takes practice. I've only seen a handful of mages use gale efficiently.

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