Summon-specced Wizard?

[gurgar78]

Monster Summoning VIII Air Elemental is probably one of the best spells in the game right now. He does very little damage and is basically just a 10-minute long trip-fest. I used him in Elite Dust last night despite franctic outcries of "OMG NO PETS!" =P I convinced them to trust me on this one.

It worked great. He didn't kill a single spider and kept ogres and spiders on their backs 90% of the time. He DOES occasionally cast lightning bolt which packs a bit more punch, but he doesn't cast often.

Oh and he trips freakin everything. You know how hard it is to use the actual trip skill on scorpions and spiders? Air-guy has no trouble at all.

[voodoogroves]

Being a summons, he has super awesome timing.

[zrandrews]

Will the Augment Summoning um...augment...the Pale Master's Skeleton Minion?

[richieelias27]

Get hireling with Summon monster and you get 5 summons

Theoretical max from 1 person - 5 hirelings (DDO store) + 5 hireling summons + summon monster + PM Summon = 12

That's your own personal raid in a 6 man party. Though 5 of those summons will not benefit from augment summon.

There are very few quests that you should not be able to complete up to elite with this setup, but it does cost TP.

Also I do not know how many different hirelings include summon spells. If it is less than 5 then this will not be possible.

I would include the Create undead spell, but really that is more of a charm since control will likely break very quickly with the augment summon feat.

Will the Augment Summoning um...augment...the Pale Master's Skeleton Minion?

Yes.