Hypersmurf
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Why do I give up 2 schools for a Transmuter(with at least one being a "tier 2" school) when I only have to give up one to get the (with the splatbooks)equally powerful Necromancer?
You don't. You can give up either Conjuration or Evocation. That's one school, and since the balance, in your opinion, has shifted until all schools are worth the same, giving up Conjuration shouldn't hurt any more than giving up Divination or Necromancy, say.
Where's the problem? Either Conjuration isn't worth more than Divination - in which case your Transmuter can ditch it with no complaint - or it is - in which case the weighted-schools system makes sense.
You can't complain both ways at the same time!
-Hyp.