My List of complaint- #2 Summoning spells - pls read

from Elemental Forums

summoning monster in the game currently not very fun in my opinion.

 

the reason I felt it's not fun is because

#1 if I were to be pure magic from beginning to end game, my summoned monster won't be much use against my enemy human army because I can only summon one type of monster until that monster die than I can re summon it again.

#2 I can't make a summon army because each type of monster I can summon is limited to one.

 

Ways to make summoning monster meaningful

-have multiple summoning of weak monsters to make an army with and have a limited number of strong monsters summons.

-put in magic tech that have to do with summoning and empowering summoning monster to make them stronger so they can keep up with end game human units

 

 

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

You can imbue the champions you recreuit with your essence. Get in a few fights with them, they gain experience and then you can level their essence up. Then they can summon their own creatures. There's yr army of summons. :)

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting TheBirthdayParty, reply 1
You can imbue the champions you recreuit with your essence. Get in a few fights with them, they gain experience and then you can level their essence up. Then they can summon their own creatures. There's yr army of summons.
End of TheBirthdayParty's quote

 

that is a way but it's very tidies, The more essence you imbue to champions the less mana you have, and leveling your hero up isn't very easy since the one that have more int are the one that have no to bad attacks. and since elemental tactical battle is still in stone age, range attack like bows and spells will kill them off fast.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

I'd love to be able to effectively play my sovereign as a summoner without having to give away all my essence. Essence is rare enough that it's tough to pick between increasing it and int, so I don't like giving it away often. 

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Distributing your magical powers to other heroes is the key.

 

It will be possible to mod differently but do you really want to face a AI sovereign with 50 high level summons ? i assume the restriction is there for a reason.

 

 

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

It's not just summons..

It's too bad a MOM/AOW type system with upkeep mana costs is not available.

 

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Lancu, reply 4
Distributing your magical powers to other heroes is the key.

 

It will be possible to mod differently but do you really want to face a AI sovereign with 50 high level summons ? i assume the restriction is there for a reason.

 

 
End of Lancu's quote

 

Restriction to powerful high lv monster to 1 make sense to me but limiting all monsters to one, that just doesn't seem right to me. Low lv summon monster dies off fast and their attack compare to normal mid game unit are low to avg, and natural monsters can fight them on head to head. so later on in game it's pointless to summon low lv monsters.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting luketan, reply 5
It's not just summons..

It's too bad a MOM/AOW type system with upkeep mana costs is not available.

 
End of luketan's quote

 

I would like that in stand of current summon system, current summon system just make the game very shallow.