Get those out of the way and you'll end up with a massively OP character.Īnd creator totem is a powerful tool but there are downsides to it.įist and foremost - it's a totem. That said, spirits are WAAAY stronger than drones thus they get all the drawbacks with control and availability. Summoner is a bit fiddly to play, but fun.ĪFAIK there's been some successful moding attempts to make a summoning spell for shamans. Walls and overwatch in those situations will kill most of them, if the spirit doesn't finish them off first. There are a lot of rooms and bottlenecks in the design of the combat areas, so you can put down fire/lightning/whatever walls on those, and just wait if someone tries to run away from a summoned spirit towards you. It's kinda fun letting one loose on the enemy hehehe. Either that, or when one gets away, leg it, and let other enemies deal with it lol. Spirits are not, nor are they of this world so a shaman needs to struggle to keep them in check.Īnyway, if you didn't pick the creator idol (totem, whatever), keep your summons close to you, and after a while when you think it's not worth the risk, banish them.
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Also part of the lore i guess, they're not machines like drones who, while also powerful if you go full rigger, are mindless. That's probably because summons are sometimes ridiculously OP at times, they can do high damage, buff your team, and are extra team members themselves. When I started, from other rpgs, I thought summon would be fun, did not realize all the restrictions of the shadowrun game rules. Originally posted by amud:Ok thanks I will struggle on with this character but I think it is a lame duck. It's best to only have one going at a time. If you have 2 AP, you can control two spirits, but you will not be able to manuver your character, cast other spells, etc. Each spirit you are controlling costs you 1 AP. I've rarely seen one stay under control past that point, so use the green skull icon (labeled "banish spirit") instead of adding AP to the spirit during your summoners turnĤ. Most spirits break free at about 25% chance for some odd reason. Distance between your summoner and the spirit affects control adversely, ie the farther away the spirit is, the harder it is to controlģ. Spirits summoned from the environment are harder to control than Fetish Spirits (the one's that you buy and put down in the lower part of your inventory with grenades and medpacks, click the consumables tab at the magic shop and buy them there)Ģ. Summoners are harder to play than other classes but it can be done if you remember the rules for controling spirits:ġ. You want to get your summoner as close to the summon point as possible when you summon from an environmental marker ( they show up on the map as little skulls in the diamond shapes, like all interaction points. It's totem ability is to make all spirits within 4 squares of the Creation Summoner obey 100% of the time. When you choose Summoning level 3 you get to choose a Totem (Eagle, Bear, Cat, etc) and Creation is one of the totems available. Creation totem works for all summons, not just yours.īecause Dietrich has about 2 fetishes each run you take him on, so that's 2 summons for free. :PĮDIT: If you use the creation totem, and don't mind 2 shamans in your party, take dietrich with you, and have his summons stay near you.
Just exit the area where one got away (if you can), and let enemies and the summon kill each other. If you go full summoning, pick the creation totem.Īnd if they do break free, they're a neutral party, so they'll attack anyone. :P Consumable items, except you can (probably) use them more than one turn.Īnyway, summoning can be good, if a bit expensive if you plan on using them ALL the time (you have to buy them every time), but they can get you out of some tricky situations. The tradeoff being, either the escape chance (which is a big no-no if some powerful summon gets away and turns on you), or the micromanaging the summons so that they're always near you which can be a bit fiddly, but if there are 2-3 of them near you, each with 4 AP, they'll devastate most of the enemies most of the time. Some later summons that you can buy (fetishes) and some enviromental summons, that you can summon from places in the enviroment that usually have greeen thingies flying around them (you see the summon icon when it's the turn of the character who has the summoning skill like yours), are pretty damn powerful. If you have the creation totem, you don't need to pump any points into spirit control, because as long as they're near you, the escape chance is always 0% (when the totem is active). Or just pick the creation totem, have your summons always be close to you, and each turn you can give the 4 AP with 0% escape chance.
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