Black Mages suck

[Black Mage FF1]

He doesnt have enough Mp to last every fight.

A level 12 BM (pretty good time to go after Lich) has 18 spells total. Saving one FIR3 for Lich leaves 17. That's enough magic for me to make it to Lich. Depends how much you wander around, I guess.

Well yeah if you include EVERY spell. But tell me something. Is FIRE1 and ICE1 powerful enough to kill enemies in the Earth cave? I think not. It will take more then just that. Plus a lot of the enemies in the Earth Cave come in groups of 4 or higher. So you would have to use a lot of the lvl 3 spells on them. But what about when you reach Kary in the Fire cave? Thats when the Bm really sucks. All of his spells do terrible dmg on her. Same goes for Tiamat. Yeah he can cast FAST on the Fighters but what then? Cast spells for 20-60 dmg?

I'd rather have NUKE, so there you go. BM isn't useless if you value NUKE, and I do, and apparently a lot of other people do too. Not to mention all the other spells a BM gets that an RM doesn't.

Yeah but every other black spells are crap. Lets not forget that the Rm gets spells that the Bm does not. Like I said before I can stand to miss 2 casts of Nuke.

I assume you're exaggerating. BM does more than 1 damage for most of the game.

Yes I was exaggerating. But still 5 dmg isnt any good.