Will PE make a viable 'minion master' solo path?

[TheFacelessSteelMan]

The title kind of says it all.

I haven't had a chance to play PE on the beta server (infact, I only have a lvl 5 wizard), but my real interest is in playing some sort of minion master.

Will this be viable when Update 3 is released?

[richieelias]

Are you referring to "Pale Master?"

They get to summon various levels of skeleton warriors/archers/mages which appear to be decent enough, but nothing anyone would take into top level content.

You may only have one skeleton out at a time, so dont expect to be running around with an undead army.

[Doganpc]

The HP cost scares me, sure the Pale Master enhancement gives you some HP but you're taking a 10+hp hit everytime you have to cast that skeleton. Not that I won't be trying it! Just need to keep that blood cost in mind.

Dogan
F2P!

[richieelias]

10 hp is nothing. A simple cure light potion or two will take care of that.

[Kriogen]

Rank 1 and 2 PM pets are ok-ish. Rank 3 pets are not so good. Problem is, that its level 18 stuff. Mobs are 'big' at 18 and that single PM pet is not. On top of that 'caster' pet has Sleet Storm spell and it looks like 'archer' pet has zero range.

Problem with Minion Master in DDO is, that usually MM builds summon lots of minions. You can't do that in DDO. One of release notes even has something to do with 'you can only have 1 summoned pet'. And we can summon squishy pets that are on top of that brain dead and can't be 'controled'

I would like to, but at this point I see no way to have a caster that would be like Necromancer from games like GW or AoC.