whats the best way to build a Meele summoner

[waxpants]

i would like to build a viable dual wielding summoner is that even possible and whats the best class/skill tree to use

also from what iv seen on the wiki necromancers dont have any summoning skills and i really want to summon a bunch of stuff to fight for me is that even possible

[Iry]

Melee and Summoner are kind of at odds with each other, in the sense that they don't have a lot of synergy. Totems die quickly, so you won't really be spending action points to summon totems in the middle of combat, since you need to spend your points on moving and shanking people.

But that doesn't mean it cannot work. At the very least you can summon a few totems before combat starts, get an Incarnate so the two of you can charge around stabbing people and giving each other flanking bonuses.

You can go Scoundrel to teleport to enemies faster, conserving action points. Or Polymorph to fly around and get behind enemies to backstab them. Phoenix Dive in Warfare can create a surface to summon an Incarnate from.

[waxpants]

Originally posted by Iry:

Melee and Summoner are kind of at odds with each other, in the sense that they don't have a lot of synergy. Totems die quickly, so you won't really be spending action points to summon totems in the middle of combat, since you need to spend your points on moving and shanking people.

But that doesn't mean it cannot work. At the very least you can summon a few totems before combat starts, get an Incarnate so the two of you can charge around stabbing people and giving each other flanking bonuses.

You can go Scoundrel to teleport to enemies faster, conserving action points. Or Polymorph to fly around and get behind enemies to backstab them. Phoenix Dive in Warfare can create a surface to summon an Incarnate from.

i have no intrest in summon totems i only want to summon beings that can move around

what do you think has the strongest summons between necromoncer and summoner

[Iry]

Originally posted by waxpants:

what do you think has the strongest summons between necromoncer and summoner

Necromancer had 0 summons in the EA, so there is no way to know until tomorrow.

[shade169]

i did a dual fire/poison wand summoner which worked nicely with poly for wings and aero for moving stuff and it worked great. the wands made a fire surface to summon on and did a massive amount of damage as well