Lower level CNJ

[Alkaiser]

use the thm spells banish and scourge don't waste your time with conjurer stuff unless you know enemy weakness and even then its not worth the effort. Banish 1 and scourge 1 will out damage almost anything over time because almost nothing resist them/you lower the enemy elemental resistance when casted on them, and also tier 2 spells only do maybe 100 more damage than tier 1 its not worth the mp/per cast and recast.

One thing i will say its that tier 2 get buffed a lot when you use the skill: profundity, but its a big hassle to look up enemy weakness only to find out it only does maybe 50 more damage than banish and scourge spam and not worry about what is weak to who. It sucks its this way still till this day but if you test them out you will see what i mean.

[REDace0]

Banish and Scourge are powerful, but elemental weakness matters for these as well.

Fire, Lightning, and Wind are Astral elements, whereas Earth, Water, and Ice are Umbral. So you should cast Scourge on enemies of Astral type and Banish on enemies of Umbral type, in theory.

I noticed while fighting Nest Commander (Earth) and Pyrausta (Lightning? Astral anyway) this morning that there was about a 20% difference in damage and a noticeable difference in partial resist rates when using the correct spell.

[psiphre]

i'm a much lower CONJ, but i noticed the same thing. fighting astral mobs, i was throwing down Scourge and then rotating between Aero and Blizzard (for recast times) and getting about 50% more damage total.

ex: scourge hits for ~60, banish hits for ~40. i can rotate those indefinitely or...
scourge hits for ~60, blizzard hits for ~40, aero hits for ~40, at which point scourge has been off recast for a couple of seconds. and two conj spells cost about the same MP as one thm spell!