Need hints & advices concerning summoning...

Gregstrom · #1 February 18th, 2008, 06:32 AM

I may be able to add a couple of pointers.

It is often said that the best summonable creature is the Seraph. It's rather expensive, though. To try it you'd need to be playing as MA Pythium or MA Marignon.

Quite a few good summons are in the Death school, so you could try playing as a Death heavy nation - EA or LA C'tis, for example. You can also reanimate undead with clerics of several nations. It's another form of summoning, and very useful.

Again as noted above, Blood has a lot of entertaining summons available. Jotunheim and Abysia have some Blood for checking out the basic summon roster there.

EA Mictlan and Lanka have a wide range of powerful national Blood summons, and for Mictlan at least you really want to be using them to get the best out of the nation.

Finally, MA R'lyeh has an interesting summon site in its capital and might be worth a look-in.

hnchrist3 · #2 February 19th, 2008, 01:10 AM

To any question that starts with "What is best..." in DOM3 there is only one answer: 'It depends.' Everything is interdependent and based on an overall strategy.

Not to sound trite, but the "real" answer to your question is LA Ermor, as all of its (national) players are summons. Your only (national) commanders are freespawn or summoned. (You may still muster regular units, but they have upkeep costs--yeccch!)

However, even Tartarians are available to anyone if they have the appropriate Death-level and Conjuration-9 research.
[Hint on Tartarians. They come to you powerful but useless because they are feeble minded. Acquire the Chalice (Construction-8; unique) and all that goes away. NOW, you have a fighting force.]

Again, it all depends. If you are a powerful Blood nation, you may use vampires; Seraphs seem popular as well.

A summons in itself is not useful; it must be tailored to either the threat or the conquering strategy.

CUnknown · #3 February 19th, 2008, 02:30 AM

I think the best summon races are the blood races (e.g. Mictlan) for devils, storm demons, etc. and the death races (e.g. LA Ermor) for all the nice death summons.