[FaeLenx]

The best status effect you can induce in combat is 'dead' and any spell that doesn't directly do that needs to be worth the lost opportunity cost in momentum and focus that you're missing. Charge mind is a good example, letting you massively boost the power of invocations that can change the flow of battle or end it outright. Charge mind is also a good example of how even a hugely potent ability is not used in a lot of PVP because of how much you're probably better off dealing direct damage to the face.

Support in SL2 pretty much always sucks. The bonuses are either something that needs to be built around and so they're only good for meme compositions or they're just worthless for everyone.