How you be liking your summons?

[silvertrit]

So, yea the untaxing about new summon choices. Am finding myself kinda liking the AOE on almost every level now. Almost makes me want to summon a monster during large fights and let it fall about. Ive found the summon monster 3 about the same as a 5-6 fireballs before the suckers die.

[fuzzy1guy]

I'm not sure what the lantern archon is doing in combat... But it's doing SOMETHING... and stuff chases it. They're also hilarious with stoneskin on them.

The fire elemental is pretty damm tough and can take a beating. Anywhere fire works anyway. Cold and stoneskin buffed and it's well worth the slot and sp.

The air elemental just looks crazy with stoneskin on. And while it won't hurt anything very much. It knocks monsters flat on their butt pretty good. Wandering spastic crowd control..

For its level the green devil is a pretty tough little guy as well. Same for the orthon.

And the eladrin? are pretty good as well.

HUGE earth elemental is a pain in the eyes in small rooms and hallways. Just like the hezrou...

The mephits/shadows really suck that they summon unfriendly allies to deal with. Total waste of space.



All in all not a bad upgrade to some lacking areas of dnd.

[Meowin]

I like the huge elemental for its punch and earthgrab, I would just love they made the summons a bit more ´intelligent´. It has been suggested since the introduction of hireling action bars to give us something similar for summons and seeing my ele grabbing each and everything not just the guy that beats the **** **** out of me tells me it´s about time to bring this suggestion up once again. Maybe restict it and do not allow special actions to be assigned (like earthgrab, change form for eladrin and so on) but give us two or three simple commands like act offensive, stand there passive or guard me, always attack my target or attack assigned target until it dies.

The negative points about summons have been mentioned, what I also dislike is the fact that eladrin and djinn can not be targeted for healing or buffing purposes when in their ´other´ form - no idea if this has been bug-reported already or if that´s WAI.

Meowin

[beards13]

Yeah, I like the new summons quite a bit as well. Being able to pick something for a specific job is extremely nice.

[dmslasher]

if you havent tried summon monster 8 - greater air ele i would suggest it it gets the knock down ability and it uses it quite frequently a very nice addition 2 the summons IMHO. and yes air ele looks so cool with stone skin lol i feel i will be useing the air ele all the time

[scouse65]

I like my dog, but having a few options is allways nice and appreciated