Summons ?

So , don't know if this has been discussed before. Not trying to browse for hours looking either, but we have skeleton, zombie, and spectre summons. Yet with the passive nodes as it is , there's a LOT of elemental nodes. This made me start to think. With such a variety of elemental passives, and summon passives, where are the elemental summons ?

I think elemental summon skill gems would be great ! Especially with the dark tone of the game, there are some seriously evil ways you could construct them as well as their effects, i.e. fire elemental has a minor constant burn effect, or fire based thorns, increasing it's overall dps compared to the other elemental summons at the cost of having the lowest hp/armor of them all, whereas the frost could be large , fat , and tanky producing a temporal chains like slow while doing nearly no damage at all. There's a load of mechanics and builds that could be either improved upon or build entierly around the benefit a elemental summon could provide.

Again, don't know if it's been discussed before, but I think it's a hell of an idea and we should get living summons as well as undead at some point as it might counteract how stupid our undead ones can be at times !

Yeah I think something like this will be added shortly after OB launch.

It would have to be balanced for sure.

But I like the concept.

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anyone else think elemental summons would be a good idea, or is this one of those , thought it was a good idea, things that rly isn't

Today i made my first character ever! A summoning witch..... and while i had a blast in most of it, being locked in a room with only a boss and no way to resummon squishy zombies was very disheartening to say the least. I managed to beat them and move on to act2,and so far at least it seems better now i have more points to spend in the summon parts of the tree. But man they are way underpowered for something that game mechanichs removes from my arsenal in the first 5 secs of a boss fight, oh and skellies pretty much were being 1 shot defore they can claw there way out of the ground :(

If anyone thinks i my have done the build wrong feel free to comment!

its been a few months since i've played now, but iirc there are support gems that add elemental damage to attacks?

so we already sortof have elemental summons they just dont have a graphical update when enhanced :)

Why not make skeleton magi? Sure D2 got to it first, but I'm sure PoE's magi would be very strong and thus should expire over time.

Additionally, magi should share the same skeleton summon pool so you can't have, say, 8 warriors and magi.

Spectres pretty much are anything you want them to be, including spell casting mobs you've killed. You can also use support gems to buff or convert the physical damage of skeles/zombies into elemental damage.