Conjurer

[Verdoc]

Anyone else feel that the summons become very useless unless you let them do 100 percent of the work?

[Tinkuwu]

I mean, it's always good to have your summoned creature be the one to attack an enemy first. They'll take most, if not all of the damage. If they die, you can just re-summon them.

[Verdoc]

the problem is in multiplayer they become useless because the other players killing the mobs quicker than the summon can. They become very weak very quickly unless they do 100 percent of the work.

[Purple Fiction]

No, they still gain experience when you kill monsters yourself. I've watched them level up multiple times while standing next to me, doing nothing, while I'm sniping imps and demons from across the map but it's entirely possible and likely that they gain experience faster if they are doing the work themselves.
If you're in multi, try getting a bow or just use your fists in stealth mode to get as much sneak attack damage off of mobs other players or your summons are tanking. Since they probably don't get experience from mobs other players kill you have to be an aggressive part of that if you're worried about the xp sharing.
If you're finding that they are too squishy, don't let them die. You can re-absorb them for almost the same amount of mana that it takes to cast them with only minor diminishing returns scaling with their remaining hp.

[Luckyleol]

those guys helped in taking down Baron Herx quickly by distracting him and doing good amounts of damage which than i flanked with dyrwyn. and that resulted in taking him down way faster than i thought.

[Verdoc]

I've played till I was level 40 and then poor guys didnt level up past 20 maybe it was a bug then because they didnt gain exp for me killing with them near

[blacksoul566]

I got my skeletons to level 40+ playing solo. It was relatively easy to do. Haven't had a good run as a Conjurer in multiplayer yet though.

[Minescence]

I think the skeletons might be bugged because the only time they actually gained XP was when they got a last hit on the mob. My knight only made it to lvl 14 when I reached the last boss.

[Crunchy[Daz]]

If they get the kill they gain bonus experience above what they get when you kill something.

They are pretty much a solo class as other people in multiplayer aren't gonna just let them kill everything. The summons don't have to do all the work, they just need to get the kill.