Because I tend to believe that the game is very well balanced. Sometimes balance means catching someone unprepared and killing them that way.

I haven't found too many chinks in the evil conjurer armor though. A well-played character simply isn't found unprepared. The game is too large, and a player can simply seclude themselves until they are prepared to enter the hunt again. I know this because I often use this to my advantage.

My last several mid-level characters have had to deal with both good and evil aligned conjurers. Demons and devils in the 35-40 range are extremely nasty. If the conjurer is using any protections at all, or has a decent set of equipment, then they start looking really powerful, really quick.

Also, evil conjurers are probably the most annoying things to fight. In two rounds I've seen a devil use -con damnation and then rot the next round.

Start throwing in edges for familiars and constructs from the Consortium, and conjurers start looking like easy street.

Now I know that keeping demons and devils isn't the easiest thing to do. But people have figured out what it takes to keep each type of devil and demon happy, and are now simply powergaming that aspect.

After having to deal with them quite a bit for the past several months, I believe I will have to research them and try one for my next character. Just to see if it really is as tough as I seem to suggest it is.