Help w/Arco

[shovah]

one of my prefered arco pretenders:
Shedu with: e4 s4, 3 order, 1 heat, 3 growth, 1 misfortune, 3 magic, 5 dominion (i think you can boost to 7 or so if you drop 1 scale but not sure) and a watchtower.
you get good research, large income and low unrest and a powerful pretender that gets good buffs and gives heart companions a small (but useful) boost in battle.
there are plenty of lower level summons mystics can get with all their randoms and mystics and astrologers are great battlefield mages (enslave mind, stellar cascades ect)
its also useful to have a few boosted astrologers mind hunting.
with all your money and magic scales i would try to research: evocation 6 (astral fires, mind hunt, stellar cascades and a bunch of low lvls for random mystics) alteration 4 (buffs+baleful star which is now useful) enchantment 5 (dispel, eyes of god, buffing) and then pour the rest into construction and conjuration to make use of randoms.