Things that are rubbish

[Vespasian]

@gribble_the_munchkin

Names of power I suppose qualifies for this thread. Although I really like it when combined with the other virtues, the fact is, it does nothing on its own. The only advantage to having just that is that you can begin working to discover useful names before you get Invocation or theurgy.

My theurgist found it nicely useful actually.

I must agree with callen

@callen

Something that is really handy to some and not so useful to others should not qualify for this thread. Only things that are not very useful to those who really would want them should qualify.

I started a thread about automata recently because I have had trouble seeing it's usefulness and thought I'd finally found something.
It derailed horribly, but that happens - perhaps because a certain can of worms got opened.

So far, for this thread I could support:
Vulgar Alchemy (I too thought every magus could do this? And why is it so hard?)
Automata (By RAW they have no Intelligence. We have no idications of how complex their orders can be, They are mostly very expensive, very limited Invested Devices as far as I can tell. This is a major virtue.)

Everything else mentioned in this thread so far has been situational (at worst) but certainly useful to the right character.