Stygian revenants - GGWP

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pneuma wrote:

I keep dreaming of a day where the Spectre gem controls the scaling and the corpse you raise just determines what AI/skills get used.

It really sucks that the best spectres are determined in large part by what spawns in the highest level non-map zones. It sucked with Flame Sentinels, it sucked with Evangelists, and it sucks with Revenants. (Also, where the fuck are the "interesting" Act 1/2 enemies?)

It similarly sucks that whenever they need to nerf a monster because it's too scary/rippy, spectre summoners get randomly nerfed as well.

ehh none of the monsters that are actually rippy were ever good specters. i have zero armor , zero evasion and only 4k hp and ill have a cup of tea while a revenant tries to murder me. that being said keep me the hell away from a pack of those porcupine monsters .

they are no joke. it is alot of those contextual monsters that are rippy. like the porcupine blob, or the old devourer ambushes or those corpse eating harpys on a gmp map. none of those are good specters. infact all of those are terrible specters.

there were some exceptions like that whole business of burned miscreations doing millions of dps because their hp scaled with player count. ggg was right to changed that mechanic. it is just that what they replaced it with is pathetic.

Specters should be tied to charector level. You summon a spectre x amounts of levels lower than you are. I say this because summoners stop getting their minions stronger after you get all the gear and gems/jewls needed, there's no other way to buff them.

it would be nice if ggg just simplified things and made specters scale to whatever level area you are at.

they claimed the main reason why they could not do this in the past was that there was nothing stopping some one from power levleing low level alts and having those alts solo higher level content using scaled specters. but the way i see it .. they are already rushed .. they can just go to one of the high areas they were rushed too and make specters.

level 40 summoner in act 4 merci can get level 70 specters if he/she so pleases.

but that of course is pointless due to level gap penalties to that same summoner will just go back to act 1 cruel anyway. and really act 1- 2 of every difficulty is so pitifully easy that you can cheesy clear is with specters from the previous difficulties.

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Dro28 wrote:

The investment is real, but you know what keeps summoner balanced? The fact they don't Leech and now the fact that mobs don't target summons 100% of the time.

Totems are dead atm endgame because they don't take enough attention and the only way to element efficiently is behind 9 zombies... Otherwise you die

I find CI pretty amazing for summoners now. 11k ES. 13K without vis Mortis...1.35 seconds delay before the start of ES recharge. 1.96 seconds to fully recharge ES!

It is pretty tanky with huge effective hp pool and only requries you to avoid damage for 1.35 seconds to start recharging. Vaal discipline with increased duration can be popped for near immortality 9.8k ES regen/second for 8 seconds


anyway here is a video of my CI summoner at apex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OYia3oFG4M