Have summoners summon fewer, more powerful allies
issueid=2108 04-11-2013 05:51 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:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
Issue Details
Issue Number 2108
Issue Type Feature
Project ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
Category All
Status Implemented
Priority 5 - Medium
Suggested Version ADOM 1.2.0 pre 13
Implemented Version ADOM 1.2.0 pre 21
Milestone (none)
Votes for this feature 17
Votes against this feature 5
Assigned Users (none)
Tags (none)




04-11-2013 05:52 AM
Issue Changed by Grond
  • Title changed from Have summoners summon fewer, more powererful allies to Have summoners summon fewer, more powerful allies

01-22-2014 07:51 AM
Issue Changed by adom-admin
  • Issue marked as addressed
  • Addressed version changed from Unknown to ADOM 1.2.0 pre 21
  • Status changed from Suggested to Implemented

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