#class: summoner

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Summoner is one of the classes that can be selected in Elder Tale. It is one of two classes that have no regional variant on any server, alongside Guardian. Summoners have the magic that allows them to summon mystical beasts or spirits. There are over 100 different types of creatures that can be summoned. To prevent the class from being almighty and game-breaking, the maximum number of summoned creatures (which will stay out until called back) that a player can summon at any moment is one...

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How do Summoner skills work? I know they can only have one summon active at a time, but do all of their abilities manifest through that single Summon? Does the Summoned creature manifest for a single skill and then disappear and require a cool down time? Then, the Summoner can cast a new summon to then use another skill? Or perhaps it's more like the Pokemon route where the creature that is summoned has a set of abilities they can use until the Summoner runs out of MP or returns them?

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Summons are independent from their skills. Also, there are two types of summons; the one-appearance summons are Attack Summons and they count as skills. However, there can be multiple normal summons out at one time (and that number is limited by either level or MP; I’m not sure which, just that Hisako’s limit was six). Normal summons will usually just use auto-attacks (if they’re capable of attacking) or will sit around until the summoner makes them use a skill.

Each Summon belongs to a different type (such as Undead, Phantasm, and Artificial), and there are skills that work for those types. So a Skeleton can use any Undead-type skill, but not Artificial-type skills.

There are also skills that affect the caster or the summon directly (like Castling and Summoner’s Whip), as well as generic Mage-class spells like Magic Light.

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Hey, its this guy again with another question. You'll probably get a few from me for awhile, have oddball questions that need answered or atleast opinions on for my writing. I was trying to find how many summons a summoner could have out at one time, I don't think there is anything that has per level, but i recall in an episode with the watermaple maidens one girl summoned two slimes and Roe2 summoned 3 skeletons, so I was just curious if you know the limit.

http://log-horizon.wikia.com/wiki/Summoner

For an Attack Summon, only one at a time. For a Limited-time Summon, as many as MP will allow for. It seems as though most summons are also limited-time anyways, and/or summons will continuously deplete MP, as Mamare said it was impossible to keep a summon out forever.

(Also, feel free to ask me question. ashleyien can tell you that we’ve talked a lot about LH in general and for ideas for her fan fics.)

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Thanks, that actually makes a lot more sense since Roe 2 calls them servants before summoning them.

I think that’s just a general term for summons. Attacker/Follower might distinguish between limited-time summons and normal ones, given the Summoner skill list.

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So I had a question about summoners and Roe 2. On the wiki it says that summoners can't summon more than one thing at a time but in episode 17 of the anime she summons four skeletons. So I was wondering if they were just disregarding this rule or if the four skeletons counted as a singular group summon since skeletons are known to be a weaker monster.

I’ve tried clarifying this for myself multiple times, and yet I still don’t fully understand it myself.

From WWB and the anime, it seems apparent that it is possible to summon more than one minion at a time (Hisako summons 6 familiars at once, Roe2 summons multiple skeletons). However, people often wonder why Summoners aren’t seen using multiple summons in battle.

I’m guessing that the skeletons Roe2 summoned and the dogs Hisako used are “limited-time summons”, which the Wiki states there can be an unlimited amount of. They probably serve little utility in combat, but have other purposes. However, familiars that are more powerful and are capable of using skills, such as Sword Princess, Phoenix, Al-Quenje, Golems, and Unicorns, can only be used one at a time.

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Based on the last ask, do summons have to come specifically from a contract or are there some spells they teach basic summons?

I’ve only heard of getting summons through contracts. In the tutorial, they probably give one or more “basic” contracts, though.

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What exactly are the functions of the Summoner, Monk, and Samurai classes? To me, it seems that the Guardians seem to do most of the work when it comes to the tanking and quite better. Monks seem to be relegated to just moving around distracting while Samurai... I'm not so sure what they can exactly do that is of benefit. I feel that both the Assassin class and Guardian class do everything that the Samurai class can and much better. Confused about summoners as well. This is mostly about raids.

Samurai and Monks are both evasion tanks (usually), although Samurai can play a straight-up tank role like Guardians do. While Guardians are ultimately better at tanking (since they can equip shields, unlike the other two), Samurai seem to have stronger attack skills, although they also have longer cooldowns. Even Guardians’ cooldowns, though, can be pretty long, depending on the skill.

Assassins have high DPS, but they are worse at taking hits, taking average gear into account. Since they’re mostly an offensive class, they don’t really have anything to boost their defense, so their “defensive” skills are basically ways for them to run away and/or decrease Hate (notably, though, such skills either have long cooldowns or are most effective with good tanks anyways). So while their skills may be stronger than a Samurai’s, if their tanks aren’t holding Hate well enough, they’re going to get swarmed by enemies, while a Samurai can at least take the blows.

Summoners can basically fill any role that’s necessary, so most Summoners take up a certain build. Summoners are usually popular (probably amongst casual players) because they’re the most diverse. Depending on the summon, you can provide healing support, buffs, damage mitigation, attack, or a temporary tank, for example. Azalea from Silver Sword uses his summons with to scout on enemies without being in any particular danger. Roe2 is pretty obviously attack-oriented with her Necromancer build (and Moon summons).