Magician Specialize school ?

I have a magician at 40-49/50 on several spell specializations. Which one is best for magician ?

Thanks !

This depends on how you like to play. Old school was no matter what, Conjuration was the way to go because you were summoning everything, including pets. Now I would say that evocation is the way to go with nuking is the primary way of killing stuff instead of your pet. I just play a mage as an alt so there are a lot of folks here smarter than I on this topic but that's my two cps worth.

The archives where we talked about this a couople of years mentions evocation to... I just wanted to make sure that still held.

But some folks mentjoned conjuration.

Are you on the progression server, or a live server where you're going to be leveling up your Mage?

If live, I'd definitely say Evocation because it becomes much more frequently used than Conjuration at higher levels. If this is for the progression server, I have no idea.

If you are never going to fight, just leech XP and send a pet, it doesn't matter, however, should you actually be active in combat then consider what you are going to be casting during a fight. Summoning toys, pets etc is not normally during the fighting, nuking is what you do in a fight. Making the specialization check saves mana so you can keep on going longer, just as clerics use Abjuration to buff, during combat the primary role for them is to heal, for wizards and Magicians it is Evocation nukes and more nukes.

The character n question is on one of the blue servers. Thanks, evocation it is.

yeah definitely evocation.
basically, you want conjuration if you're sub-55, but evocation if you're 60+
this is because once upon a time a mage's bread-and-butter nuke (as well as pets and assorted items) were all conjuration and mana pools were much smaller and it could make a big difference.

past 60 no mage ever uses the conjuration based nukes anymore and mana pools and mana regen become big enough the savings on summoning no loner matter.

There was another, more important, reason that conjuration was chosen: pet canni. You could summon up a pet, use reclaim to get the mana back, and be better off than when you started.

Ah, okay. I'll up conjuration then. All still at 45-49, except Diviniation which is at 1, and I'll work on Evocation at 60+. I spent part of Friday on Ragefire. Urf.

Thanks!

Well, I'd go evo now. The pet canni think was nerfed about ten years ago.

Rumbling servants are conjuration and are pretty mana intensive. Trying to remember what else is...yeah that's pretty much it, since the "shocks" don't get any real use. Conjuration is everyone's secondary specialization pick

right, i know, but even so the long term mana cost is going to end up being more into nukes, especially when spear weaving, as the high damage spear is actually more mana than servant.

oh yeah for sure no doubt. Yeah, evo for first specialization all the way