Mage Side is a term meaning, the easiest portion of an encounter, or the most trivial part of any raid encounter. Origins: The Origin of Mage Side came from the Byzola Encounter, in the Shard of Hate. The encounter is a reasonably complex one, but one of the strategies for dealing with it is to kill one of the mobs away from the rest of the encounter, and that mob in question is a mage. The people who fight over there were called the Mage Side. Examples in use: