Master Summoner Guide (2024)

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Summoner unleashes powerful arcane arts and summons primal beings to force her enemies into submission. Equipped witha magical rod, Summoner is capable of calling upon multiple Ancient Summons, all serving a different purpose to ensureshe's ready for any situation.

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You can use the raid build and use Preemptive Strike, which is enough to clear dungeons in a timely manner. You can swap-in other skills like Shurdi or Fleeting Gale Bird for additional AOE. Using Phoenix & Jahia helps with room cleaning mobs.

Master Summoner has a slower, but heavy hitting burst with higherIdentity orb generation than its counterpart Communication Overflow.Though this build of Summoner is a late bloomer, not being ableto stretch its legs until at least having full relic gearset. On top of that, havinghigh stats and heavy investment in gems really makes the class feel significantly smoother.You'll have options for your 8th skill depending on yourpreference. Flash Explosion is a low cooldown skill good for upkeeping Adrenaline. Steed Charge gives you more staggerdamage and generates a moderate amount of Identity gauge. Lastly, Pauruwho is now a kamikaze pet that grants an Attack Power buff when he goes away.

The main focus with Master Summoner is to build your Identity orbsand use Ancients within buff windows for high burst damage. Withreduced orb cost (by one) of your Ancients along, you'll be generatinga lot of orbs to use on Ancients. A majority of your damage stems from placingthese summons inside your self buffs. While you should try to prioritize placingthem underneath buff windows, therein lies a potential bottleneck in your rotationif one of two things should happen. If you generate orbs faster than your buffs' cooldown,you'll have to sit on the summon and wait for buffs to be ready. If your buffs are up beforethe required orbs for a summon, you'll have to use and/or wait on skillsthat generate more gauge. This is why high level cooldown gems are advised for an overall morefluid gameplay loop. However, this shouldn't take away from the stat and skill rune requirementeither. Early game or even mid-game you'll have to play around the specificsthat your build can allow.

Akir is your thunderous version of Doomsday, having a bit of delay beforethe final big hit. You can apply the buff from Sticky Moss Swamp after casting Akir and still manage to buff the final hit due to the animation delay on the summon.The end goal is to fit Akir in every buff window, but this is not always feasible.Cooldowns of skills that build your orbs may not align properly to allow forthis along with other factors aforementioned. The following example assumes you're ableto start an encounter with full gauge already:

• Casting Electric Storm will help us gain meter andtop us off after using our first Akir and Bagron's Wrath.
• Summon Akir and buff up with Sticky Moss Swamp.Use Bagron's Wrath to fill your meter in conjunction with the last ticks of Electric Storm.
• Summon the second Akir and buff it with Elcid.
• Use your third Akir within Elcid and build meter againwith Ancient Spear. Cancel it's animation with Earth Collapse.

After your opener you'll just follow the priority of building orbs and trying to get twosummons within your 5.0s buff windows. Additionally you can use either Steed Charge for extra meter gainor take Pauru for an extra buff that you can optimize around. Alimaji is a good option ifthe boss is staggered as it gains +50% damage and has a lower cost to summon than other Ancients. You'll be keeping skills on cooldownwhile following the priority of Ancients in buffs. Make sure to have near 100% uptime on Shurdi for extra Critical Rate.