Re: Roach Mage
I rolled this as my first character since I've returned to Hybrid, and was disappointed. I went with wrestling for stun, but having healing didn't really give me any advantage over my opponent, except that I could run and heal more.
Honestly. If you're any good, it's fairly easy to heal through most dumps on the field with pots and good ol' magery.
After that, I've gone with alchy/stun, fencer tank, and most recently an inscribe dexxer.
Alchy stun is a good PK template. A little harder to use as a blue as you can often end up hitting other blues, going grey and sometimes end up getting murder counts anyhow. Fencer tank is good because you can precast explo, hit until you stun, drop explo, poison, then finish however you want. Inscribe macer is just deadly, as you can usually bet the person will think they dropped your resist, throw a huge combo, and basically kill themselves. I can't count how many times I've crushing blowed someone with a warhammer right as they has cast explo/eb(or fs) on me only to have it bounce back in their face.
Anyhow, that's my insight.