And now most of the time, I can just shut a spellcaster down, because they can't land anything. Now I know you mentioned teleport, and word. I really don't begrudge anyone their ability to get away. They spend enough time getting pounded or dying, if those spells aren't perfected. I think of it like this, no matter how hard I'm getting beat on, I could still say "home". And when a mage has said it over and over and over, it would be on a level of that familiarity. If nothing else you could just think of it as their guildmaster saying "your going to learn to finish these two spells no matter what condition your in: Dying, plagued, bleeding out etc etc."