Thoughts on Summoner from Last Livestream

Really interesting comments from Steven regarding the Summoner on the last livestream.

One of the things I loved about my druid in WOW was the ability to fill different roles (ranged dps & heals in my case), and I really liked the feel of solo play with my druid's strong dps + self-healing.

For Ashes, I have been hoping that the secondary archetype + skill tree would allow us to accomplish something similar. I've been hoping I could roll a Cleric primary / Roque secondary, and use skill points to spec into a dps role ... but with potent healing & self-healing.

TBH, I've never even considered being a Summoner, but that has changed. I wasn't aware that the Summoner was going to be able to spec into any of the roles. Steven's comments made it clear that the Summoner could definitely spec into a fully viable tank, dps or healer.

Would be interested in hearing what people thought about Steven's comments regarding the Summoner. Do you plan to play a Summoner? How are you planning to spec it?

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SorcererKingGown

I just hope Necro is good after the disappointment that is ESO Necromancer

Halae

SorcererKingGown wrote: »

I just hope Necro is good after the disappointment that is ESO Necromancer

Focus on Summoner more than Necromancer. If the base chassis of Summoner is good, everybody will be happy, and necromancers will work the way as summoners do too, making them happy too.

That said, yeah, total agreement. ESO has a lot of ideas, but it doesn't execute many of them terribly well. We'll have to do a lot of thorough testing and provide a lot of feedback to make sure Ashes is of a higher quality.

Argonath89

High micromanagement of the pet's active/passive state and abilities is important for me as well as high dependency on character's gear to augment the summons' stats.

Aside from the main summon, I envision transient summons to aid in clutch situations like a burst window or high raid damage.

Example 1: if you summon a wolf as main, i want to be able to summon a swarm of crows that apply damage and bleed for just 30 seconds.

Example 2: if my main summon is a tank abomination, I want to summon a wall of skeletons for 10 seconds that my group can stand behind to mitigate burst of range damage. The HP of the skeleton wall dependent on player stats.

Example 3: If my main summon are magical weapons, I want to summon my enraged barbarian ancestor to the battlefield for 30second to frenzy attack/whirlwind.

SorcererKingGown

Sixinchwilly wrote: »

High micromanagement of the pet's active/passive state and abilities is important for me as well as high dependency on character's gear to augment the summons' stats.

High micromanagement of pets is one thing I like to see in summoners. I like being able to select a pet and tell them to target a creature, and the pet will follow/auto-attack that creature until one of them dies. Everything else is done by the player. Any additional movement is done by the player, and any ability is initiated by the player.

Zokof

Depending on how well pets can fill those trinity roles, I wonder if we'll be seeing 8 man summoner groups laying waste in pve :-)

Aces_Are_Wild

I hope the necromancer has aoe spells of skeleton or zombies coming out of the ground, and an aoe spell gives a little hp to mates and hurts enemies at the same time , of course the spell will have a long cool down or only do a little healing to make it balanced but it will go with the main idea of taking life from people to give to others , but the main spell they need is some type of resurrection of player even if it’s takes a while for the spell

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