Earlier this week I finally broke 30 on my Thaumaturge and became a Black Mage.
But it just didn't seem all that challenging.

My first character was a WHM, I then went monk. Dabbled in tanking and scholaring before getting to this point. And most of those classes seem to have a lot more going on for it in situational awareness. They seem... tougher.

As a Black Mage/THM all I seemed to need to do was (roughly):

fire fire fire swap ice ice ice swap fire fire fire etc..
With the occasional lightning and fire 2 thrown in there.

And I don't really need to position myself other than outside of AOEs unlike some of the other ones.

Does it get more complicated? Does it get more challenging? Am I totally missing something?