Being a max level caster and occasionally failing your level 8 spells is a perfectly reasonable drawback to balance out resisting 50% of all offensive spells aimed at you but still getting full benefit from helpful spells.

I'm not going to cry for Hithuals. Anyone who has seen top end Hithuals in the games isn't going to either. Yeah, their magick mod is terrible. However, it doesn't seem to be so much of a disadvantage that they can't effectively work around it. At the end of the day, Hiths have it better than almost all the other races in Dgate. Didn't anyone pay attention to the magick tournament in Emjedah earlier this year? Noffbrau almost beat Sirus with nothing but his spells. I think things are fine the way they are.

-Aurak's translator