Which magic schools should I choose for the late game? Or should I go for a specific artifact?

As I said before, it’s impossible to name the strongest races. For example, some players consider Haven to be one of the weakest races (although I don’t understand where its invincibility comes from either:confused:). And judging by my personal statistics, Inferno and Magic are the strongest races for me, and I don’t think the balance is broken; I just have good results against them.

The fact that they removed the Phoenix Feather Cloak in 1.1, in my opinion, doesn’t strengthen the Mages, but rather weakens them.

After the cloak was banned, the Mages were quite well strengthened financially;).