About the conjurers thing, conjurers only get10 YES 10!! points in summoning which is stupid since they are specialists in summoning and imho they should get at least 11 in summoning/level. If you get conjurer to 100 you'll have 960 summoning skill(this is because you get the 20 levels of mage first), you have to put tp's in summoning to get it to 1000.
BTW Meta, the 36 levels of mage is a real must. Especially when you get Shinhin Blades. If you need a hand in leveling your knoc, just send me a tell sometime in game when I'm logged in[:)] I'll help you level to 100 in no time[;)]