Quote Originally Posted by root9125 View Post
Those of you who say I banned great schools... What would you ban, given that it must be an evoker? I accidentally created a warmage for my first ever character, and after a semester, my DM has been kind enough to allow me to retrain it to specialist wizard. What would you do?
Choose two: enchantment, abjuration, and necromancy. For the most part, all three of them are Will save or suck/lose.

If you want reasons for why illusion and conjuration are good, look at the shadow x spells to see why illusion is good (Also your imagination, but that's very player dependent). Conjuration is good by virtue of having so many damned (good) options, from teleport, to no-save-just-lose to summons to....