Nothing you earn feels conducive to making you feel like a better version of the Thaumatage. Some of the spells are outright worthless or have such an absurd recast time that it's insulting to even have them on your cast bar at all. While the Barrier Spell might be pretty useful in a PVP situation, it has zero utility in a raid, where you're going to spend most of your time out of harm's way.


Freeze for example is completely useless once you get Deep Sleep. MAYBE if it didn't have a cast time. But even still, this spell has no purpose. There is no situation I can think of where casting sleep wouldn't give you superior results.

Of the five spells you earn as a Black Mage, only one of them has any direct effect on your rotation, which is frankly embarassing. These spells do nothing as far as I can see for your overall damage output, and for the most part are pretty God damn boring.