You are judging too early. Farming isn't hard... New farm zones have been added, a safe zone and a party zone. I guarantee you, that you can become full geared with less than a week. Maybe even less. Just find a party and kill the mobs in Party zone. <-- That's for the Farming part as you were saying it needs a mad amount of farming.
Second of all, as a mage myself the m.atk is fair, however the critical rate of the mages are high, which is a good thing for mages and make a fair gameplay. You get 4 to 6 criticals out of 10 and the defense of mages is fair.
You shouldn't judge quikcly, have you checked the Changelog? They fixed the stats of the custom armors and the critical damage of fighteres has been reduced. I'd say to you to give it a try before saying the positives and negatives. And by giving a try I mean become ready for pvp not 5 minutes into the game and you want to be at the top list.