Castersrealm recommends mages specialize in evocation. Seems like a good choice to me, but I wanted to see what some experienced mages had to say.
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A lot of it depends on your level and playstyle.
If you look through the spell list a lot of the earlier nukes are evocation based nukes. Although you'll do a lot of summoning to start your playing session, in the heat of battle it's evocation you'll be using mostly.
Later in your mage career nukes slowly get changed to conjuration based nukes. For that reason a lot of magician's switch to conjuration for a specialization (you can change your specialization through this quest).
If you would like a broader perspective than I have check out the mage tower thread which debates this topic for several pages.
Disclaimer: If you choose to spend a lot of time at the mage tower you'll gain a HUGE amount of information. While there you will also see a lot of whinning about the brokenness of the mage class. Although I (and several other mages) see the whinning as nothing more than whinning for the sake of whinning it still exists. Tread there at your own peril.
If you look through the spell list a lot of the earlier nukes are evocation based nukes. Although you'll do a lot of summoning to start your playing session, in the heat of battle it's evocation you'll be using mostly.
Later in your mage career nukes slowly get changed to conjuration based nukes. For that reason a lot of magician's switch to conjuration for a specialization (you can change your specialization through this quest).
If you would like a broader perspective than I have check out the mage tower thread which debates this topic for several pages.
Disclaimer: If you choose to spend a lot of time at the mage tower you'll gain a HUGE amount of information. While there you will also see a lot of whinning about the brokenness of the mage class. Although I (and several other mages) see the whinning as nothing more than whinning for the sake of whinning it still exists. Tread there at your own peril.
My suggestion is to spec in conjuration, as most of your nukes in later life will be conjuration based. For the most part the only mage damage spells which are evocation are the bolt spells, the rain/area spells and the banish summoned being spells. The direct damage spells are mostly conjuration, except at the lower levels (I think this is really a design screwup personally).
A mage also tends to do a lot of summoing, which is all conjuration based. While most of this is not done in the heat of battle, sometimes it is. There is a technique call pet-chaining wehre you keep summoning new pets as the old one dies - letting you kill mobs too tough for one pet to kill. Spec conjure makes a big difference here.
With the gates of discord expansion you will be able to spec in a second line, though at this point only to 100 and not 200.
A mage also tends to do a lot of summoing, which is all conjuration based. While most of this is not done in the heat of battle, sometimes it is. There is a technique call pet-chaining wehre you keep summoning new pets as the old one dies - letting you kill mobs too tough for one pet to kill. Spec conjure makes a big difference here.
With the gates of discord expansion you will be able to spec in a second line, though at this point only to 100 and not 200.
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