How strong are summoners?
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charlengu
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I'm ~ 95% sure that revives will get stronger in full games since they are based upon the stats of the monsters. The rest of your summons will not get stronger.
Summoners need some decent gear to be successful (read: semi-quick full clears) in full games in either the Chaos Sanctuary or Worldstone Keep. It helps a lot if you have Teleport. People will probably flame you for causing any and all lag anyway. -_-'. Let's just say I've never had a summoner do Chaos runs for me before. =).
P.S. I would normally recommend getting Corpse Explosion, but it's significantly weaker in full games. It's up to you I guess.
Edit: All my info is based upon trying to go /players 8 on Single Player with my fishymancer. I'm not sure how much things might change on BNet because of the unique charms.
Summoners need some decent gear to be successful (read: semi-quick full clears) in full games in either the Chaos Sanctuary or Worldstone Keep. It helps a lot if you have Teleport. People will probably flame you for causing any and all lag anyway. -_-'. Let's just say I've never had a summoner do Chaos runs for me before. =).
P.S. I would normally recommend getting Corpse Explosion, but it's significantly weaker in full games. It's up to you I guess.
Edit: All my info is based upon trying to go /players 8 on Single Player with my fishymancer. I'm not sure how much things might change on BNet because of the unique charms.
I don't play on BNet anymore so I can't really say. Usually though, unless everyone has really nice computers with really nice internets, lag will most likely occur. ^^.
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Re: How strong are summoners?
in players less than 4, they own all. Amp the mob, Skellies/merc will get you the first body, CE and whole screen dies. They are still fast at killing bosses in an 8 player game using revives, assuming you have crushing blow on merc, but the mob killing speed slows down significantly in players 8. Same with any character really, increase the hp of a monster by 800% (made that number up) and it will take 8 times longer.
in players less than 4, they own all. Amp the mob, Skellies/merc will get you the first body, CE and whole screen dies. They are still fast at killing bosses in an 8 player game using revives, assuming you have crushing blow on merc, but the mob killing speed slows down significantly in players 8. Same with any character really, increase the hp of a monster by 800% (made that number up) and it will take 8 times longer.
Ed from Russia
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Re: How strong are summoners?
Well, 95% isn't enough. Revive stats are based on the base stats of the monster, in a 1-player game. They do not scale with the number of players.
MasterMynd
Diabloii.Net Member
Re: How strong are summoners?
But I guess that must be why the bonuses from Revive/SM are there - for "balancing".
Just an observation.
Seems kinda unfair to me. I mean, the monster had players/n hitpoints when he's fighting against you, but only players/1 hitpoints when he's fighting for you.
But I guess that must be why the bonuses from Revive/SM are there - for "balancing".
Just an observation.
charlengu
Banned
Re: How strong are summoners?
@ED from Russia: Sigh. Oh well. I have been wrong before. Thanks for the info.
@MasterMynd: They are *plenty* strong enough without the scaling HP. =X. lol. On a similar note, imagine if Corpse Explosion was based upon the 450% HP (or whatever) monsters on players 8... ^^.
@ED from Russia: Sigh. Oh well. I have been wrong before. Thanks for the info.
@MasterMynd: They are *plenty* strong enough without the scaling HP. =X. lol. On a similar note, imagine if Corpse Explosion was based upon the 450% HP (or whatever) monsters on players 8... ^^.