Scalability of summons?

[thedoberman90]

How does summon scalability work? Is a 1 skill carnagor the same at level 1 and at level 50, if so doesn’t this mean that they don’t scale well compared to the later pets? Also how does our elemental damage scale? Are fire elementals more inefficient damage per skill point then later elementals?

[Sylph]

i'm surprised no one answered this thread in 6 days. If you still care, here are the answers.

Summons scale with your character level. Each time you level up, all your summons become slightly more expensive and correspondingly slightly stronger. A 1 skill carnagor at level 1 would crumple to a pile of goo if a 1 skill level 50 carnagor sneezed at him. Upgrading your summon carnagor does only exactly what it says, it increases the carnagor's armor. This simply increases his longevity.

This means that builds focusing on carnagor are not at some innate disadvantage over builds that focus on warper because one is a level 1 skill and one is a level 20 skill.

Elementals work exactly the same way. They scale with character level.

Fire elementals have the weakest damaging direct damage shot. With maxed out master of flames i suspect that they would be stronger than storms and roughly on par with toxics. That being said, fire elementals are not necessarily our most gimp elemental. The fire ignite proc is extremely powerful. The 75% reduction in ignite attack strenght for fire elementals was entirely warranted. It was not uncommon for my maxed out fire elemental squad to stack up several ignites on one mob. This was extremely overpowered for bosses. Even after the severe nerf a squad of 10 fire elementals frequently ignites mobs. Fire elementals, even after their cost increase with the coming patch, are still the cheapest elementals about 37.1 at level 50 versus 44.4 for toxic and storm, 51.9 for force, and 66.6 for spectral.

[guruwilim]

very nice post Sylph. thank you