Speculations of Summoner Heroes
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 11:28 pm
Just my speculations, and I would love to hear the possibilities, and what you would like to see. Anything's on the table until they are actually released, so anything's possible. The other thread seems more like a Q&A, so I would understand the mods having reservations about revealing more details to keep us hyped, but we can talk about anything under the sun here! 
As already mentioned, the summoner heroes are not going to be a separate class, which means they can be thought of as a different species of heroes that have been released so far. Instead of acting on their own(berserker demolishing people, archer shooting arrows etc), they summon pets that perform the roles of their classes.
I'm assuming a 4-turn cooldown, a fairly short one that allows summoners to summon every turn in PVP, hence the need for a limit of 3 pets in total.
The summoning of pets resembles more like totems that can be placed on any unoccupied tile, both your side (to buff ATK/DEF, heal etc) and your opponent's (debuff, attack or deal AoE DoT), and may carry their individual auras separate from their summoners. Can't say for sure if the 3 pet totems and their auras stack but if they do, developers should do some test runs to make sure they don't end up becoming too OP.
If these pets are meant to be attackers that attack in place of the summoners themselves instead of being the totems I think they are, I could see the whole summoner concept being fairly weak since the pets can only attack or the summoners can summon 1 more pet per attack cycle of 5 turns. However, it could also be that the number of turns in a cycle could be increased such that summoners and their pets have their own separate turns.
The pet themselves could carry their own individual stats (which means they don't scale with high-tier equipements on their owners), or they carry a percentage of their owners' stats.
Either way, the release of the summoner heroes could redefine the meta, something that's overdue and I, for one, can't wait to arrive. Any thoughts?
As already mentioned, the summoner heroes are not going to be a separate class, which means they can be thought of as a different species of heroes that have been released so far. Instead of acting on their own(berserker demolishing people, archer shooting arrows etc), they summon pets that perform the roles of their classes.
I'm assuming a 4-turn cooldown, a fairly short one that allows summoners to summon every turn in PVP, hence the need for a limit of 3 pets in total.
The summoning of pets resembles more like totems that can be placed on any unoccupied tile, both your side (to buff ATK/DEF, heal etc) and your opponent's (debuff, attack or deal AoE DoT), and may carry their individual auras separate from their summoners. Can't say for sure if the 3 pet totems and their auras stack but if they do, developers should do some test runs to make sure they don't end up becoming too OP.
If these pets are meant to be attackers that attack in place of the summoners themselves instead of being the totems I think they are, I could see the whole summoner concept being fairly weak since the pets can only attack or the summoners can summon 1 more pet per attack cycle of 5 turns. However, it could also be that the number of turns in a cycle could be increased such that summoners and their pets have their own separate turns.
The pet themselves could carry their own individual stats (which means they don't scale with high-tier equipements on their owners), or they carry a percentage of their owners' stats.
Either way, the release of the summoner heroes could redefine the meta, something that's overdue and I, for one, can't wait to arrive. Any thoughts?