New class is awesome

[DeGreZet]

Who came back to the game just to play it again with pirate class?

[Loladin]

i've gone full summoner with my pirate and having a blast, tho i'm squishy xD

[Geist]

Yeah. It is a fun class. Only bad thing is when I dash and get that bug where I can't collect doubloons.

[Pony]

As a summoner the class is pretty awful, lol, on paper its design is alright, but the execution is horrible. Only Fire! is worthwhile using and even that is questionable at times when they decide they don't want to shoot at anything anymore, but for the most part it works and is a nice DPS gain.

The best way to play the Cursed Captain is get a focus with 100% dubloon gain on hit, put 10 points into Plunderbuss and use the legendary perk that lets it fire twice when above 6 dubloons. Congrats, you now stomp the majority of the game even on ridiculous setting with only your right click.

[DeGreZet]

Originally posted by Pony:

As a summoner the class is pretty awful, lol, on paper its design is alright, but the execution is horrible. Only Fire! is worthwhile using and even that is questionable at times when they decide they don't want to shoot at anything anymore, but for the most part it works and is a nice DPS gain.

The best way to play the Cursed Captain is get a focus with 100% dubloon gain on hit, put 10 points into Plunderbuss and use the legendary perk that lets it fire twice when above 6 dubloons. Congrats, you now stomp the majority of the game even on ridiculous setting with only your right click.

I mean look at it like at Necromancer from Diablo II. He was ultra useless in late game but it was lot of fun having 15 skeletons walking with U.

[YouGotOwned]

Which relic is best to use with it? May as well give it a try since I already own the game.

[uni790]

Originally posted by degrezet:

Originally posted by Pony:

As a summoner the class is pretty awful, lol, on paper its design is alright, but the execution is horrible. Only Fire! is worthwhile using and even that is questionable at times when they decide they don't want to shoot at anything anymore, but for the most part it works and is a nice DPS gain.

The best way to play the Cursed Captain is get a focus with 100% dubloon gain on hit, put 10 points into Plunderbuss and use the legendary perk that lets it fire twice when above 6 dubloons. Congrats, you now stomp the majority of the game even on ridiculous setting with only your right click.

I mean look at it like at Necromancer from Diablo II. He was ultra useless in late game but it was lot of fun having 15 skeletons walking with U.

Not entirely useless, you can have a nice setup with the "thorns curse" (I forget the names) and watch as baddies kill themselves hitting your skeletons.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Originally posted by degrezet:

Originally posted by Pony:

As a summoner the class is pretty awful, lol, on paper its design is alright, but the execution is horrible. Only Fire! is worthwhile using and even that is questionable at times when they decide they don't want to shoot at anything anymore, but for the most part it works and is a nice DPS gain.

The best way to play the Cursed Captain is get a focus with 100% dubloon gain on hit, put 10 points into Plunderbuss and use the legendary perk that lets it fire twice when above 6 dubloons. Congrats, you now stomp the majority of the game even on ridiculous setting with only your right click.

I mean look at it like at Necromancer from Diablo II. He was ultra useless in late game but it was lot of fun having 15 skeletons walking with U.

Useless?? He was pretty damn strong once you had the right runewords to stack auras/buffs to your undead army etc. Only builds like a perfect geared hammerdin etc could outshine him imo.

[Zombie]

that tells me again ! dont believe what just someones opinion is from a class ! thank you !

[Rocket Poop]

yea i am one of those peeps that came back for the new class.

[Shockwaves]

Originally posted by Pony:

As a summoner the class is pretty awful, lol, on paper its design is alright, but the execution is horrible. Only Fire! is worthwhile using and even that is questionable at times when they decide they don't want to shoot at anything anymore, but for the most part it works and is a nice DPS gain.

The best way to play the Cursed Captain is get a focus with 100% dubloon gain on hit, put 10 points into Plunderbuss and use the legendary perk that lets it fire twice when above 6 dubloons. Congrats, you now stomp the majority of the game even on ridiculous setting with only your right click.

I agree completely, the "summoner" side of the class is really weak compared to the "DPS" side of the class. Maxed out Plunderbuss with Fortune Spire in the Legendarium truly is broken, you just absolutely slap everything with very little effort. Combine that with the mutliple damage buffs the class natively has (the single target curse + Dread Banner), some +% to Plunderbuss armor pieces, and a nicely-rolled weapon and you get a ridiculous class.

But overall, I think it's a pretty good class for what it is. The minions definitely need a buff, but even beyond that it's really fun.

[Gespent]

Originally posted by Pony:

As a summoner the class is pretty awful, lol, on paper its design is alright, but the execution is horrible. Only Fire! is worthwhile using and even that is questionable at times when they decide they don't want to shoot at anything anymore, but for the most part it works and is a nice DPS gain.

The best way to play the Cursed Captain is get a focus with 100% dubloon gain on hit, put 10 points into Plunderbuss and use the legendary perk that lets it fire twice when above 6 dubloons. Congrats, you now stomp the majority of the game even on ridiculous setting with only your right click.

are u playing the summoner part right? w/ bane relic the summoner build on CC is OP. miasma gives 25% damage aura + 50% on minions and the passive 25% damage on minion. The bread and butter is the fire! w/ legendarium, and yes if u ask those minion buffs work too on fire!.

[Ghostlight]

Sadly, all the things you can summon are crap because they don't pull aggro.