Lower level CNJ

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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.

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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!