Mid Game+ magic.

[quantum_mechani]

spirokeat said:

I probably dont spend enough time empowering my mages to cast the higher level spells and instead go for specific high level casts or summons to cast with my pretender or a special mage type.

If you mean literally empowering that is not a bad a thing, empowering is normally used very sparingly unless

A. You are empowering in blood to reach a specific spell/item

B. You are empowering in astral to reach wish or other high level spell and have tons of clams

C. You are empowering in nature (usually a druid to n3 or a lizard shaman to n2s1) in order to get to lamia queens to diversify your magic.