What circumstances are these, anyway, that make it a good idea to drop Abjuration? Especially when Incantatrix will be forcing you to drop yet another school?
- DM gave the hint that there'll be quite a lot 'familiar unfriendly environments'
- needing an acf for a familiair, I want abrubt jaunt, need to specialize in conjuration for that, so need to drop 2 schools
- can't drop the others because of the concept (the concept is ray caster debuffer, from mid level debuffer / blaster, doing loads of sneak attack damage with malphas/andromalius and metamagic like twin, quicken and ocular spell), so can't drop necromancy (loads of rays), illusion (greater invisibility, shadow evocations) and enchantment (power words, ray of dizzynes), other schools seem obvious.
- other partymembers consist of cleric archer, gish and wiz5/manconvoker5/incantatrix 10, so dispelling can be done by others.
Considering the advise I got so far (in my own words "no worries, let another caster do the dispelling"), I think I'll take it. Just wanted to be sure, cause several of the wizard handbooks (DM's, and the one from the logicninja) advised against it. I'll check out if I can find an affiliation though.
Thnx once more!