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Originally Posted by Prito
Imagine with -100 recharge gear, briar ward every battle + eruption spam along with plague spam. Sounds pretty poweful to me! 8) Pets or not hehe
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I'm kinda an opponent of -100% recharge, I'd actually like them to nerf it to a max of -75% (Which is still very substancial) but I'd take anything less than 100%.
I tried speccing full Briar Ward (Saved a copy of my character with every point not spent on masteries pooled up, would close TQ and paste it into my TQ save folder from my clipboard, overwriting the new crappy build with the one with no points spent, worked great for trying to see wtf summoner was capable of) and I really didn't like it, since you pretty much need to cast it every fight, monsters can still get through it, and the hp/mp regen isn't enough to justify it by themselves, I'd never buy the poison retaliation ability, and you really NEED massive recharge gear to use it effectively, its recharge is something ridiculous like 30 seconds or more. Even with 12 second recharge on Eruption between recasts I can still plague + staff (Blastos Fotia ^^) to pretty good results.
Kiting is much more my style, I still have 1 point in Stoneform for emergencies (and why the hell not) but I usually just kite with plague/eruption and Regrowthing myself while I run around with the +10% move from my HoO added to my run speed gear. At 35 tried respeccing again as above to see where I was at, and I hated every build that didn't have full Plague + Synergies (it's that powerful) and Regrowth to some capacity (I hate quaffing potions, you can only carry so many, and with mana regen gear you're effectively infinite barring spike damage and stuns).
I found it easier to use myself as bait for microing mobs into the radius of Eruption, and the fire and forget utility of Plague and Eruption both on bosses while dodging their range attacks does all the damage for you, doing some normal Typhon runs lead to some damn near two shot kills from taking the mastery shrine and hitting him with level 13/13/13 Plague and level 17 Eruption with level 7 Volativity/EE/Brim.
I'm to the point now where if I choose to take pets, I'll proly go all wolves, although I do still miss my Core Dweller, Survival Instinct gives wolves a huge buff to damage in addition to them being ridiculously hard to kill, so I'd more or less not buy points into Dissemination (!) and WANT them to get below 33% HP asap, buying points into Heart of Oak instead so that 33% HP for the wolves is still over 500, so they have some breathing room even at low life.