Black Mage (Tactics)

Black Mage, also known as Wizard, is a Job from Final Fantasy Tactics. The offensive magical Job class, Black Mages are not as common as White Mages. Their magic does heavy damage, and can easily take out many units at once. Their spells do not differentiate between friend and foe, so players using Black Mages have to be careful. It takes 8,150 Job Points to master this class. It takes 8,400 JP to master this job in the War of the Lions.

Leveling this job up to level 3 unlocks Time Mage, leveling it up to level 5 with White Mage, Time Mage, and Mystic unlocks Arithmetician, while mastering this job as well as Knight, Samurai, Geomancer, Dragoon, and Ninja, as well as having the unit get 20 kills (the units must turn into chests or crystals to count as a kill) to unlock Dark Knight.

The Black Mage possess the highest magic of any standard jobs.

Black Magic/Black Magicks
The amount of damage inflicted by Black Magicks is as follows:
 * $$\text{Magick Attack} \times \text{PWR} \times (\text{Faith}/100) \times (\text{Target Faith}/100)$$

The chance of inflicting a status is as follows:
 * $$(\text{Magick Attack} + \text{PWR}) \times (\text{Faith}/100) \times (\text{Target Faith}/100)$$

Note: Firaja, Blizzaja, and Thundaja have a 30% chance of randomly being learned in battle by a Black Mage who hasn't learned the spell yet and is damaged and not KO'd by the spell, or absorbed and heals at least 1 HP. Nullifying the damage does not count.

Support Abilities
Arcane Strength increases damage inflicted/HP restored by your magicks by 33%, and increases success rate of status attack magicks. Also works for other abilities that depend on your Magick Attack stat, like Iaido, Geomancy, and Limit.

Gallery
Mago Negro (Final Fantasy Tactics)