Summoner Info and Tips!

[pandabearcat]

One thing I found is your guide was hard to read as things were split up into long paragraphs instead of lists and rotation info.

Its much harder to read "Cast all the Summoner specific DoTs onto that mob as long is it is not about to die, and BANE the DoTs to the surrounding enemies!"

than "For AoE, do this:"

[Bio II] > [Miasma] > [Bio | Contagion | Swiftcast] > [Shadowflare | Bane] (if contagion applied) > [Miasma II | Bane]

Then Thunder tab target for high HP mobs < 8 targets, Tri-Disaster otherwise.

A bit too many exclamation points for my tastes =)

[GameGeeks]

Don't get the point of so many Banes. The 15% chance to reset the DoTs isn't worth burning stacks. Better to use Fester instead of bane. Besides it's not a bad idea to go to the second target do Swiftcast ->Shadowflare -> Bio II -> Miasma -> Thunder -> Bio -> Contagion -> Bane, then switch to the main target and thunder then fester it before going to the third target and thundering it along with a refresh of Bio. At that point I find the second target is mostly dead and I just burn it down and then reapply the DoTs on the third target if needed then Bane if able or just go to the other targets and manually apply the dots. That 15% chance on Bane just isn't worth the stack it costs.

[glim]

Don't get the point of so many Banes. The 15% chance to reset the DoTs isn't worth burning stacks. Better to use Fester instead of bane. Besides it's not a bad idea to go to the second target do Swiftcast ->Shadowflare -> Bio II -> Miasma -> Thunder -> Bio -> Contagion -> Bane, then switch to the main target and thunder then fester it before going to the third target and thundering it along with a refresh of Bio. At that point I find the second target is mostly dead and I just burn it down and then reapply the DoTs on the third target if needed then Bane if able or just go to the other targets and manually apply the dots. That 15% chance on Bane just isn't worth the stack it costs.

I don't think anyone here said use bane to reset the dots.

[pandabearcat]

Don't get the point of so many Banes.

The first bane is only if garuda actually decided to obey you and contagion right away.

If she didn't contagion yet, you then go into miasma II then bane if (hopefully) she's contagioned already.

If she still hasn't contagion, curse her out for a bit and spam contagion button until she finally does it, then bane.

Besides, the rotation above couldn't work if you bane'd more than once, as bane has a 10 second cd.

[faceroll]

This is wrong, once Obey is pressed, it stays on Obey even after you use a move like Contagion.

Is this new? <_<

[Deepsixeden]

Is this new? <_<

As long as you command your summon to Obey at least once in its life time, it will never use any other skill besides its first basic attack until you command it to do so!

[Deepsixeden]

One thing I found is your guide was hard to read as things were split up into long paragraphs instead of lists and rotation info.

Its much harder to read "Cast all the Summoner specific DoTs onto that mob as long is it is not about to die, and BANE the DoTs to the surrounding enemies!"

than "For AoE, do this:"

[Bio II] > [Miasma] > [Bio | Contagion | Swiftcast] > [Shadowflare | Bane] (if contagion applied) > [Miasma II | Bane]

Then Thunder tab target for high HP mobs < 8 targets, Tri-Disaster otherwise.

A bit too many exclamation points for my tastes =)

Yes, im sorry about the layout. I tend to write guides and such in a conversational manner. makes it seem less serious and more casually talking to someone about a class. but thats just me!

[faceroll]

As long as you command your summon to Obey at least once in its life time, it will never use any other skill besides its first basic attack until you command it to do so!

Well, I know that i just meant like
Whenever I used contagion it would reset the obey command and start using other things
I could have just been misclicking or whatever but I could have sworn you would have to click obey again after each contagion
But I guess I was wrong :S

[GameGeeks]

The first bane is only if garuda actually decided to obey you and contagion right away.

If she didn't contagion yet, you then go into miasma II then bane if (hopefully) she's contagioned already.

If she still hasn't contagion, curse her out for a bit and spam contagion button until she finally does it, then bane.

Besides, the rotation above couldn't work if you bane'd more than once, as bane has a 10 second cd.

Yeah, never had an issue with her not using it in a few seconds after clicking Contagion. Still find it a waste given that scenario. I'd rather take the time to quickly recast everything then waste that fester. Just not one to gamble on a 15% chance.

[Serophyn]

As long as you command your summon to Obey at least once in its life time, it will never use any other skill besides its first basic attack until you command it to do so!

Lets make this clearer. Clicking obey by its self won't keep it in obey.
Only when combining targeting a mob plus clicking obey will the egi stay in obey"stance". Until death/resummon/zoneing.
Just make sure tank is tanking since obey orders an attack.