Talk:Specialist Mage/@comment-4802924-20170124174411

IMO Conjurer is the best specialisation as you lose only divination spells of which there are only 10, the most useful of which is Identify (which just means that you need to spend a bit more gold to identify items at merchants). A proper thief can Detect Illusions and makes the spell of the same name, True Sight, and Oracle redundant; Glitterdust is a better Detect Invisibility (and it is a conjuration spell, so the specialisation even gives a -2 penalty to enemies' saving throws); and the other divination spells are basically useless (they reveal the map or detect alignment).