[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Stormbinder:
Fire Kings are very nice sommons though. Summer Lions at their peak monthes are pretty good as well, although quite expensive. Still they are the best of 4 seasonal spirits IMO.

The Fire Kings aren't bad, but they suffer from a dreadful lack of mobility: No innate flight, no feet to give them flight with, no paths conducive to teleportation. Overall I feel that they're not as effective as the Air Queens in combat power. The fire shield they have is nice, but isn't something they couldn't have cast anyway, so you're not saving much there. The King of Banefires is somewhat better, as he gets an unresistable banefire shield which can be stacked with a regular fire shield, that partly compensates for his reduced mobility compared to Air Queens.

Still, there's only 2 Fire Kings: The King of Banefires is a death summons and has no bearing on the use of Fire Gems.

I have to concur with Zen about the Summer Lions: They are trash: Expensive, die easily, and lack the raw punishing strength of other, cheaper summons. The Spring Hawks are a far superior summons: They're physically weaker, but they fly and have a lightning attack(which I believe will stun). As fliers, they are far more useful both tactically and strategically than Summer Lions, which offer nothing except not-all-that-formidable meatshields, which you can get anywhere.