I use crown cakes they do a great job in buffing all my magic damage.

As far as nuking outside of regimen, yes that takes timing from the mage and honestly is not worth doing you'll get more out timing a tier 2 nuke on an nm outside of regimen and is far easier to do imo.

I have tested everything I could possibly think of to increase the DMG potential of AM, and as of yet have not found a way to push damage thresholds to beyond that of anything a tier 2 can do.

My theory here and I could be wrong is that AM is very much so connected to elemental and stat affinities, and considering those are broken is causing AM to be broken as well.

That is why I want to get a conversation going and to let SE devs know this is an issue that the casting community would like to have some light shed on.

If anyone has done other testing in relation to these spells please share your fndings maybe we can figure something out on our own, however, I do think we will need some light shed from either the community reps or dev forums reps. Either way being this should be a conj's most devastating weapon it clearly is not.