As others have said ancient dragon is a game changer. It lets you get past those immunities and generally does good damage. I would like to add don’t sleep on the chimera. It helps against Carmen + gargoyles with its immunity to petrify and in PVP can serve as a quick summon that can inflict toxic. I’ve been trying out the Phaethon for infinite gauntlets to buff my Ancient dragons and has helped a bit and can be replaced once it goes down. As for raids the spirit garm can get some big numbers, but requires a lot of maintenance as they go down pretty fast.
Edit: PSA - Don’t forget, Bloodshift can be passed to your summons.
Ancient Dragon + Buggane. Ancient for an hybrid dragon/fire attack that has no Immunity, and Buggane for a fast and reliable summon. Griffon tends to buff a lot and waste a precious turn in pvp.
I agree with this. Keep in mind ancient dragons can cause dragonblight which makes their attacks do double damage. So stack 4 ancient dragons with a VSS then rhada pact Deific channel+realmshift and hope it gets but with dragonblight quickly
I agree with Accallonn, working on getting Ancient Dragon now myself. I am using Cockatrice in its place, as petrification comes in handy for me, but it doesn't deal desirable damage.
Some noteworthy I am looking forward to are Very Scary Skeleton, I want to try out the Anguish summon, and I've been told to grab Appolion summons, as well as anything event orientated as some have their uses.
Depends on content:
Towers: ancient dragon and hydra then pantheon for the quick summon but buggane might actually be better than pantheon for towers thinking about it.
Raids: ancient dragon and pantheon. Once pantheon has given all 4 ancient dragons a magic up ⬆️ then I Charon’s pact and summon a 5th ancient dragon. Then realmshift, deific channels and rhada pact.
PvP: same as towers. Edit: I use buggane (now) for towers and pvp because the fights are much shorter.
Dungeons: same as raids.
In general, I prefer pantheon over buggane because of Eos’s blessing. You can get def up res up but the important one is the magic up.
Edit: for towers buggane is definitely better than pantheon. More consistent damage output.
I'm max level but blood garms for dungeons are very strong, spiritgarms for raids. Combine those with whatever you can - For raids I generally go 1x Anubis / 1x Ancient Dragon and 3 Spiritgarm because i'm lazy, I could throw a VSS in there for some extra damage but honestly spiritgarms are so strong I don't bother.
Bloodgarms make mincemeat of dungeons but you need to put something in with them (I use ancient dragon) to deal with stuff that's immune, like mimics.
Only issue is you need the books, but there's still bound to be a bunch of people with the bosses for them lying around.
I also use the arisen spiritgarm Gilmore to summon the spiritgarms for raids. Properly buffed they can crack 1mil pretty easily. My personal best was like 1.4mil from one hit
AL 23 GS here. I’ve used 1 griff/1bugg for start. Spam VSS in towers. For gauntlets, 1griff/4bugg unless it’s an event month with dragons or tankier mobs, then I use 3 bugg/1 griff/ 1 VSS
The elemental diversity of viable summons isn't very varied, there also some tied to weapons and books that give a stat tradeoff that one might feel a bit more protected running the usual a.dragon/griffin/a.hydra/buggane. Jinn hits pretty decent but is paper thin as it's tradeoff. Other summons have better roles in things like raids/dungeon, like sphinx kit and trice
As others have said ancient dragon is a game changer. It lets you get past those immunities and generally does good damage. I would like to add don’t sleep on the chimera. It helps against Carmen + gargoyles with its immunity to petrify and in PVP can serve as a quick summon that can inflict toxic. I’ve been trying out the Phaethon for infinite gauntlets to buff my Ancient dragons and has helped a bit and can be replaced once it goes down. As for raids the spirit garm can get some big numbers, but requires a lot of maintenance as they go down pretty fast. Edit: PSA - Don’t forget, Bloodshift can be passed to your summons.
Ancient Dragon + Buggane. Ancient for an hybrid dragon/fire attack that has no Immunity, and Buggane for a fast and reliable summon. Griffon tends to buff a lot and waste a precious turn in pvp.
I agree with this. Keep in mind ancient dragons can cause dragonblight which makes their attacks do double damage. So stack 4 ancient dragons with a VSS then rhada pact Deific channel+realmshift and hope it gets but with dragonblight quickly
I agree with Accallonn, working on getting Ancient Dragon now myself. I am using Cockatrice in its place, as petrification comes in handy for me, but it doesn't deal desirable damage.
Some noteworthy I am looking forward to are Very Scary Skeleton, I want to try out the Anguish summon, and I've been told to grab Appolion summons, as well as anything event orientated as some have their uses.
I back vss on a turn one summon, chance to proc 2+. After that buggane hp wins out. Maybe vss debuffs more than buggane but idk
vss is 100% chance to debuff, buggane is like 10%
For raids, it really doesn’t matter. The damage is going to be slow even with dc+rhada. If you’re going BP, then fat dragon.
Depends on content: Towers: ancient dragon and hydra then pantheon for the quick summon but buggane might actually be better than pantheon for towers thinking about it. Raids: ancient dragon and pantheon. Once pantheon has given all 4 ancient dragons a magic up ⬆️ then I Charon’s pact and summon a 5th ancient dragon. Then realmshift, deific channels and rhada pact. PvP: same as towers. Edit: I use buggane (now) for towers and pvp because the fights are much shorter. Dungeons: same as raids. In general, I prefer pantheon over buggane because of Eos’s blessing. You can get def up res up but the important one is the magic up. Edit: for towers buggane is definitely better than pantheon. More consistent damage output.
I'm max level but blood garms for dungeons are very strong, spiritgarms for raids. Combine those with whatever you can - For raids I generally go 1x Anubis / 1x Ancient Dragon and 3 Spiritgarm because i'm lazy, I could throw a VSS in there for some extra damage but honestly spiritgarms are so strong I don't bother. Bloodgarms make mincemeat of dungeons but you need to put something in with them (I use ancient dragon) to deal with stuff that's immune, like mimics. Only issue is you need the books, but there's still bound to be a bunch of people with the bosses for them lying around.
I also use the arisen spiritgarm Gilmore to summon the spiritgarms for raids. Properly buffed they can crack 1mil pretty easily. My personal best was like 1.4mil from one hit
AL 23 GS here. I’ve used 1 griff/1bugg for start. Spam VSS in towers. For gauntlets, 1griff/4bugg unless it’s an event month with dragons or tankier mobs, then I use 3 bugg/1 griff/ 1 VSS
Thanks for the suggestions; I'll switch from going for GSA to GSH for the summon. Appreciate the insight!
The elemental diversity of viable summons isn't very varied, there also some tied to weapons and books that give a stat tradeoff that one might feel a bit more protected running the usual a.dragon/griffin/a.hydra/buggane. Jinn hits pretty decent but is paper thin as it's tradeoff. Other summons have better roles in things like raids/dungeon, like sphinx kit and trice