Have summoners summon fewer, more powerful allies
04-11-2013 04:51 AM
Ancient Member
Number of reported issues by Grond: 971
Have summoners summon fewer, more powerful allies
Currently, summoners generate an enormous amount of monsters. I feel the current volume is bad for a couple reasons:
- It's very binary: it tends to lead to situations which are either impossible or trivial to deal with (usually the latter in my experience). If you have to fight through 40 spiders, either you take negligible amounts of damage, or you are almost certainly going to die.
- Regardless of difficulty, it's incredibly tedious to deal with. Personally, I find dealing with summoners probably the most frustrating aspect of the game.
I suggest reducing the total number of summons down to 2-8 (perhaps more for late game summoners like Yulgash). That's enough to block the PC in an open space, but not so many that it's impossible to power through a couple summons and make a break for it. Making the smaller number of summons tougher would make summoners more of a genuine challenge, and would make more sense for summoners who are currently much more powerful than their summons.