wtf with all this hate to summoners?

[SirWethamster]

I also think it's because of pet positioning and the pet soaking up every hit over and over. Pet's ignore some AoE types, while others they take full damage from and get one shotted, which makes things a pain sometimes. But I too have noticed arguments over shout where people call out summoner on being too weak and such. when I played summoner, it felt fine, they are just a little slow at starting up as they need to get DoT's up. But once the damage over train is rolling, things are generally great. Plus the damage over times does damage while you're dodging AoE's which most people don't even have time to do, as well as your pet doing that as well.

So there are certain advantages to summoner, it's just in certain fights I think their downsides go against them. I'm not sure, but I think in the titan fight, pets might be able to be ringed out? Which I could see causing a massive problem for a summoners damage.

[Yoko_Kurama]

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I think anyone who feels what you said is the major issue (and i hope this isn't the majority case) doesn't realize that it only takes like 5 seconds to re summon an egi, i used to focus on healing my pets during battles but so far (and i havn't done hard modes yet) but when a egi dies i summon it back so quickly people don't even realize it was gone.

[SirWethamster]

well, less than 5 seconds with a swiftcast. Course I don't think having swiftcast on a cooldown is an issue for a scholar, since the way most people die is by being knocked out of the ring. can't swiftcast raise that.