Not sure what is there to laugh seeing that i said before , i am going to replace odette in the future , just not right now. On top of already having plenty aoe magic dps (maxed noel , odette , solano , 2 max cc-ed gold mages as well) , Marius will still be a more expensive to deploy option then an already pretty expensive mage (odette). He also has less damage.
Sure , extra range IS a good stat , but the investment is not worth for me for the moment.
And drop rate boosters are something i personally like.