Are summons viable as Tanks?

[Senf]

I played an all mage party with the disc version, but only up to the end of act II.
It worked surprisingly good, though. Use Pause, stay mobile, use many summons, etc. Basically hit and run with massive damage.


I lost my savegames, so I am restarting now. I wonder how summoned creatures do on higher difficulties?

[Mesarthim]

You have more than one summon in the game, depending on which, they do well.

Your pets, if you feed them correctly will become quite deadly as far as I remember when I finished the game years ago !

[Senf]

I am still in the first act but I am quite satisfied so far. I push the taunt skill of the summoner and it works great. I expect it to become even better when I can lower the already low cooldown of the skill.

[Mesarthim]

Then you're doing great ! Think about your pet too !

[frogs.poison]

You pretty much have to invest 20 points into the HP talent for summons to be a true "tank", but they are pretty good at tanking. Same thing goes in damage - If you put 20 points into both attack speed and attack damage, they become a rofling stomping machine. A single buffed-up pet can solo bosses no problem.