Before anyone goes off on how awesome Kanaev was...

The clear reason Kanaev's character dominated is that he exploited a bug.

It also didn't hurt that Kanaev became leader of Scion in about 200 hours despite piss poor roleplaying. By the way, I didn't know the guy. This is coming from what imm's & players said about him through the forums.

The most important job for the conjurer is to reach level 51 without conloss. This is why Kanaev owned so much: He didn't die to his own servitors. Pretty much the only thing that could kill me were my own servitors. In long fights, it's easy to neglect your demon. I can't count how many times my demon or devil would turn on me midround combat in pvp. I'd word or teleport & try to deal with it.. but that never really worked. If a servitor turns on you, it's pretty much a done deal and you're dead. If I could of nofol pet like Kanaev, I would of prevented 90% of my deaths. For those of you who think that dismissal is an answer: try it yourself against a high level servitor.

That said, if you plan on playing an evil conjurer, do yourself a favor and don't do ANYTHING until you reach level 51. Kanaev had only 8 pkills before he reached hero. That's pathetically small. I realize now what he knew. PVP before 51 is a waste of time, and can result in conloss. You need to invest as many trains as you can into hp.