Pricing of Mages ... is it balanced?

[Yossar]

Originally posted by Edi:
Most indie mages costs 180, with the apprentice Version generally being 80 to 120, but then there are guys like the Circle Master that have D2B2 for 100 gold that are good as cheap researches and blood hunters if nothing else. Admittedly, their magic combo is one of the less useful, but they are some of the best bang for buck I've seen so far.

If you don't have anyone else that can make vampires, it's pretty useful. Not really anything else that uses that combo (Bone fiends and maybe an item or two) but vampires are pretty nice.