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Even though the bird, cat and bone widow might become somewhat weaklings in later levels, don't undermine their use. Do try and get all your party a summon each, so om total it makes up to 8 team members on the battlefield.

The summons without armor are usually targetted first, that makes them perfect fodders for enemies to waste their skills. The fodders also give way for distractions so you can either go invisible and wait for a chance or escape. And since you have different summons, it makes your team more diversed and easier to keep track of, with only one memory slot and/or a point in necromancer for the spider.

Don't underestimate the lesser summons, they might save your team from a one hit ko one day.

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The incarnate can be used for stealing.

First summon and buff it with farsight and power for armor. Then control the incarnate to initiate combat while keep yourself well hidden from somewhere far away.

While the npcs consider the summoner character enemy indicated by the red icons on the minimap, other companions remain neutral as long as they're out of the combat area.

Now when they're busy in combat, the incarnate's turn will force the participants to stand still while you get your thief character can freely sneak around without being caught.

Once you're done stealing, get the thief out and summon the incarnate again far away from the area. As long as no one except summons were in combat, the npcs' attitude act as if nothing happened between you and them. Stay out for a bit longer if some find their pockets got lighter. Probably half or a minute.

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I play on DE version of the game and I cannot find any trader with summoning skill books in Arx( trader Aravae does not have them even though she is listed above ). I can't believe they missed an entire magic school for the last map.

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Summoning is probably the strongest ability in the early game. I'm currently in my 1st tactician mode play through and although the Lone Wolf physical builds can get away with most of the situations easily in the classic mode, it was really hard to make it in the tactician due to the unbalanced settings in the early game, specifically, by level 3.

The characters are simply not strong enough to beat down all of the enemies even if they are on the same level when they are outnumbered. I specially had a hard time for the quest to save Delorus.

The status of the Magisters are actually higher than Lone Wolf characters, so if it's 4 men party, you would feel like they are 1 or 2 levels higher than your characters. Therefore, you would most likely have to do some tricks to beat them down rather than using actual "Tactics".

However, when I did it with 2 Summoners, I could just fight normally and just focus on the positioning or the environments of the field, and I eventually won the battle without any issues or cheesing.

And it gets even stronger after level 4 or 5 as the Incarnate becomes Incarnate Champion, so now I don't really feel like I'm playing harder mode to be honest. You basically have 2 another ally characters who deal double amount of damages than your characters along with 6 totems which can also deal great damages.

And if you have the normal 4 men party, you would have 4 massive allies (Incarnates) and 12 totems in the fields in around 3 turns, so you practically have a unit which consists of 20 members which is kinda funny.

You might want to switch to actual mage or warrior later in the game if you focus on damages, as Summons can't deal critical damages as far as I know. However, Summoning is definitely OP in the early game, and was a life saver for me.

Lastly, I have to add that it's really fun to play.
Enjoy summoning!

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Summoning is strong enough to solo the entire game with on a non lone wolf character of you know what you're doing. I know because i literally did it, solo'd the entire game with sebille summoner without lone wolf. Theres a great video by speedlee on youtube outlining some of the best tricks to maximise the potential of summoner

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But what attribute does it scale with?

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It's not listed here or on the skillbook crafting page, but there is also a Cursed Blood and Cursed Oil infusion.

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Conjure gigachad

Conjure gigachad

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Copied from my last post in soulmate wiki page.
The strongest spells all of time is soulmate for just cost 1 ap.U can either kill undead enemy or buff your teammate to regain unlimited heal by cheap shot. To maximize the potential this spell, the caster should get away from enemy as far as possible(teleport) after casting this spell then escape from battle. Make sure ur teamate is still in battle. After that u can spam bedroll from nowhere to kill your enemy(undead) or heal your teammate. No pot consumed by doing this trick xd.
Another cheap trick ,:combined with Escapist talent and or glass cannon, lonewolf talent u can use all of ap, casting this spell , flee and spam bedroll . The caster of this spell should have high initiative.
Escapist talent itself already broken ; we already know we can do unlimited turn by using this talent

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Copied from my comment in ifan soul wolf's wiki page.
Best summon in late game is ifan soul wolf if u use pet power gift bag. Ifan as summoner should ve 20 or more summoning skills in order to maximize the damage output in Definitive edition( acc and armor stats should ve 2 summoning each) due to stat cap. For summoning strategy: u need high initiative to ensure u play in battle first, escape from battle (through teammate teleportation or skills) then buff the wolf from the distance with basic infusions and source infusions(necro fire, necro blood, blessed ice,cursed electric, cursed oil, cursed acid). Do not use pyramid or waypoint trick cuz ur summon will follow u when u do.
U can also use old classic summoning trick by summoning the summon(wolf) before enter the battle but its not recommended cuz u will wasting so much summon(wolf) duration and this skill is source skill after all.
U can also doing dirty deed; buff the wolf with supercharger and stack them as many as u want. Dont do that if u want play the game fairly

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Jumping into the fray and using teleport, thick of the fight, decaying touch, and rallying cry, would that instakill anything?

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As a devoted summoner i can tell you that this skill tree sucks ass with magic damage , does decently with necromancy and does the best when you just forget you have an incarnate and use it for buffs , debuffs and totems along with some other school of magic. It's ****, and i love it for that but don't pick it up unless you already know how bad it is mid-late game

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codes for the 4 pet pall skillbooks

"items" :
[
{
"statsid" : "SKILLBOOK_Necromancy_BloodInfusion",
"template" : "BOOK_Skill_Necromancy_CMP_BloodInfusion_0f3950c9-fee5-4a7c-b0f5-4fbab0e81731"
},
{
"statsid" : "SKILLBOOK_Necromancy_CursedBloodInfusion",
"template" : "BOOK_Skill_Necromancy_CMP_CursedBloodInfusion_c0a930b0-7662-4d95-b191-087f3d75ecaf"
},
{
"statsid" : "SKILLBOOK_Earth_OilInfusion",
"template" : "BOOK_Skill_Earth_CMP_OilInfusion_f61124e9-070b-4fda-86ca-f9d8f6791bba"
},
{
"statsid" : "SKILLBOOK_Earth_CursedOilInfusion",
"template" : "BOOK_Skill_Earth_CMP_CursedOilInfusion_2ec50e4a-f866-402a-a08f-4e4f4f2dab11"
}
],

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I’m doing a close up battle mage with fire, earth and summoning using a staff. I don’t know which type of armour to use, if I went magic I would have Geomancy to help. But most close up enemies do physical damage, and mages don’t use AOE when they could damage their allies.

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Can you do soul mate from player 1 to 2 and then player 2 to 3, 3 to 4, and 4 back to 1 so that if any single person gets healed, everyone in the party gets healed?

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Hi, lol I'm the person from the pyrokinetic page who has like all the skills at level 14 and I also have like 3/4 of these summoning skills even though that person also focuses on healing so I can only memorise so many skills at one time. I have conjure incarnate, blood infusion, dominate mind, summon condor, have Jahan's book for summoning a demon, fire infusion, door to eternity, supercharger, power infusion, shadow infusion, farsight infusion, rallying cry, (I missed the summon cat familiar ;-;) elemental totem, and finally electric infusion.

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Hopefully they add the enhanced summon gift bag to the game permanently, like they did with the 4 relics.

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Seems Larian gift bag called Pet Power is needed for the Blood, Oil and their Cursed skill book variants to be crafted.

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4 Summoner Skill books are missing on this page (possibly from Larian Crafter Kit gift bag or some patch in 2019 or 2020): Blood Infusion (summoner book + necro book), Cursed Blood Infusion (source summoner book + necro book OR summoner book + source necro book), Oil Infusion (summoner book + geo book + oil barrel) and Cursed Oil Infusion (summoner source book + geo book + oil barrel OR summoner book + source geo book + oil barrel OR source summoner + source geo + oil barrel).
KEEP IN MIND NOT ALL SKILLBOOKS ARE VALID FOR THESE RECIPES!
For example i could not make any of these using the Inner Demon source summoner book. Try with several different books from the adequate spell schools - it will work.

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I mean. Living on the edge on yourself, plus door to eternity on your incarnate in a pinch is kinda just broken neither of you die and you can continue to destroy the battlefield. Its fun with lone wolf.

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People talk a lot about summoning as a one dimensional skill dump, but the real 'chads' know that "Soul mate" makes everyone's obligatory death knight character a healer. If you have ~4 points in summoning from gear for some reason pick up "Bloated Corpse" from the necromancy skills and enjoy your spammable 1AP blood bag that either soaks up an enemy's turn being put out of its misery, or detonates for some fairly lethal AoE damage. And of course, "Bone Widow" is about 60% of a fully buffed incarnate for 50% of the AP cost to whip out, potentially 75% of the cost (1 AP) with Elemental Affinity. Quick note about Dimensional Bolt: It has a one turn cool down making it a reliable AP dump for an intelligence character, compared to most reliable elemental spells having a 3 turn recharge.

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Summoning is OP early game but falls off quickly. You need to either side-spec into another class at the same time to keep up with the damage bloat later on and/or be useful to the party. Most of the time the Incarnate is more useful as a deterrent than a meat shield, since the enemies would prefer to go after you first, but they will be less inclined when you are far away and the incarnate is right up in their face. The secretly most useful skill in the whole summoning school is summon totems, since you can have 3-4 up at the same time, and their damage is nothing to scoff at

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I dont think summoning is OP. A fully stocked mage in most schools with their 3 source point spells, or a two handed warfare player can do 3x or more damage than incarnate can in a single turn, without the versatility/being a meat shield. If you and a friend are doing a lone wolf playthrough this doesnt compare to rigging your character in almost every other school. In a 4 man I can see its uses.

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summoning isn’t talked about enough and is so OP You can literally beast mode any enemy regardless of their resistances simply because you can infuse your incarnate with ANY element. If you have Lvl 10 summoning and use necrofire or cursed electric infusion on your incarnate- they get either epidemic of fire or Closed circuit. Simply summon your incarnate into the thick of battle, buff his a#% (peace of mind, power/far sight/necrofire/curses electric infusion and you’ve easily capped almost any enemy before any bodies layer a finger on most of your party.

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These are no where near az crazy az the polymorph skilz

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You basically exchange crazy phys or magic dmg for a lot of versatility when you go summoner

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I think this list should include all possible summons

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So serious question: why should I bother with any other summon, like the Oil Blob or the Fire Slug, when I could have the Incarnate instead? The incarnate can change elemental forms to fit the situation at hand, and can be buffed a ridiculous amount to be absurdly powerful, so what merits do other summons (like Oil Blob or Fire Slug) have over the incarnate?

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Something to consider to all my magic users in a 4 man team of friends and they all go physical damage. Don't overlook summoning, it's an amazing tool for someone in a mixed party (or not). I normally go something along the lines of healer and support so I obviously will take some points into hydrosophist but I started to noticed that I was spending all my time trying to break magic armor while my friends had the targets already dead by the time I really started to get my combos off so I went out on a limb and took summoning. It's made me go from standard support type roll to able to really pull off some crazy combos with my Incarnate out on the field. He can be used to aid ripping off magical armor and setting you up for your hydro combos while you baby your friendly dwarf that is always on fire (looking at you Simon if your reading this). He really does fill any role you wanna put him in. side note: It's always good to have one type of caster in the group imho, a lot of enemies you encounter will have super low magical defense and with you out there chewing them up and keeping them frozen, burned, poisoned and shocked allows for your physical oriented friends to have a lighter battle load and keeps pressure off your healer/support (if you go that role). Late game it won't be too much of an issue with all the ways your friends can help rip off magical armor with strength/fineness scaling skills. Ex: Flayed skin, chloroform, gag order and Silencing stare.

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I think it'd be cool, and balanced, to separate each summon so you can have 1 incarnate and say, one dragonling out at the same time. On lone wolf it sometimes feels limiting because they start off with 4 action points, 5 with haste buff, but when you're so used to having 6 it's depressing.

I honestly get way more out of fane using apotheosis time warp blood storm and grasp of the starved combo for instance, so as far as being overpowered I daresay this is the least problematic thing to consider.

Just reduce summon times, and maybe lower stats, or have a limit breach per 5 levels of summoning. So a lone wolf could have 4 pets maxed but only 2 for a nonbuffed 4 party crew character. But it would allow other summons to be used to create forced variety so you can't just pop 3 incarnate champs out like other mods are doing.

I think the spell variety of an intelligence mage is more involving than just dropping a summon and buffing it with the lower tier spells. Allowing me to use the different summons together would enhance my gameplay experience, and with proper balance, can make the summoning class a fun class to play.

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Some additional information about infusions that isn't immediately clear from the skill descriptions:

Power/Farsight: Provide a 25% damage bonus. Armor provided is boosted if the Incarnate has any +armor effects, including those from an infusion and level 10 Champion summoning. Modified armor is not shown in the tooltip, but can be close to 3x the displayed amount on an infused Incarnate Champion. Makes it just about the tankiest thing on the battlefield.

Warp Infusion: Adds 15% dodging.

Shadow Infusion: Adds 1 movement.

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Wow I had no idea that to get half of the summoning skills you have to craft them yourself hahah next playthrough I guess

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Cannibalize is missing from the list, destroy a summons, gain 50% of its vitality and armor

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Really overpowered early game. Incarnate does more damage with any spells he and I both have. Summons should NOT get to act the turn they're summoned, they should only get to fight the next turn.

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level 6 right now, i was a newbie, no idea what i was doing, i dropped wizard schools, and took air magic with summons. it is a great combo, i made fane take summoner, those two are a power house together. makes me want to try archery and summons on a character real bad. he is also a great support character. a water infusion grants you a heal, that helps me in a pinch when the cleric already has dropped hers on our tank and our other people need it too

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I'm rocking summoning 21 at lvl15; it's pretty awesome. Note that you can/should cast your Incarnate and buff it pre-fight, more often than not your best bet is a Blood Incarnation (my solution is Blood Rain on other character).

Incarnate is very capable of dealing 800-1200 dmg per turn (+Opportunity), which in itself almost justifies a dedicated summoning build (+totems +buffs +heal in spare time)

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Imo the one of the strongest classes atm, summoners lvl 10 incarnate deals almost same damage as my geared warrior, not taking into account that he has x2 phys armor

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Summoner level improves the summons of other schools. I recommend putting 2 points into Necromancer to be able to summon Bone Widow ( Spellbook is sold in driftwood ) and get a very powerful summon that powers through a good portion of the game. Bone widow is stronger than champion incarnate with triple health and double the dmg.
Notice that you can only summon one "Soul Bond" summon, so you cant summon fire slug/incarnate/bone widow at the same time but you can summon totems since they are not player controlled.

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Buff for Totems would be good.

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summoner seems kinda week at first, but boyyyyyy if you can get it to level 10 and get that incarnate champion hollyyyyy crap

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I believe so, Take for example the Necromancer Skill "Raise Bone Widow",
It says in Blue text "The stats of the summons will depend on caster level and Summoning ability."

https://divinityoriginalsin2.wiki.fextralife.com/Raise+Bone+Widow

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Does anyone know if investing in this tree will also effect the summons of other schools ?

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