@Raudhbjorn Magic works well either on specific occasion (like Farilyn's power to take care of ghost) or just for research (Farilyn also mention that she is unique, simply for learning magic useful for exploring dungeons at all). The latter kinda makes sense, since if you think about it there's no way a decent scholar that spent tons of hours for their study would risk their life at the same level as normal grunts who do all the dirty works.
There's also explosion which isn't useful for killing without destroying the bunnies. I assume there's magic missile or something, but at that point I think using arrows would be easier and much more versatile since it doesn't cost the same mana that can be used to heal or resurrect other people.
Her ancient magic shown before is either necromancy (very useful here), resurrection (though she also has the normal one), or something that can be used against an ancient summon. Most won't be useful against normal physical enemies.