Ok I am not one to complain about the quality of the game and the difficulty spikes across the Veteran ranks...but she is making me madder than I would like to admit (since this is only a game and all that jive.) but when she summons her minions it is all I can do to stay alive until the archers come out and they just tear me up.

Currently I am running a sorc VR 5 with bound armor, crystal, mage's fury (i think) inner light, and impulse With a second bar entirely devoted to healing. My ultimates are the dark magic and summoning ultimates. Once bound armor is activated I am overcharged in both mag resistance and defense. my health is kind of low...at 1850.

So the fight between the mage and I is pretty easy, she does hardly any damage to me and my mana never dips below 80%...Then she summons the damn ghost army. I retreat farther back (one of my runs I tried to impulse everything to death and died in something like 2 seconds.) After I get through the melee units my mana is wavering and health buffed and primed...but as I take 50 arrows to the face, I die.

here is a screen shot of the damage I take before I die...I would respec but it would cost me 15k and I spent that earlier to respec for questing (after spending another 15k to respec when i couldn't get past another portion of the game.)

so either I am stuck at this portion until I get enough gold again to respec and try a more tanky role (then spend another chunk of gold to go back to my questing build) or just give up and maybe start another character or something.