Quote (Belarathon @ Jun 18 2018 01:14am)

Goldmember? :P

I love summon druids :)

I actually had similar gear going into Hell on my summon druid and found it pretty easy until the Arcane Sanc. I would suggest swapping to a Lawbringer Act 5 merc by the time you reach Arcane Sanc in hell, that certainly helped me a ton.

Oh and also, the spirit wolves synergy really doesn't help a lot and is not needed at all, you could spend those 20 pts elsewhere.

Here is a druid pet calculator in case you haven't tried it: http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~gottwald/druid_pet_calculator.html

Quote (TheBroski @ 17 Jun 2018 23:25)

Whose Goldmember?

Also, thanks for the advice! “Lawbringer” was would be my last choice. I’d rather have an Amplify wand and free up merc’s weapon.

Did your summon survive Hell? Thanks for the tip on the Spirit Wolces tip. The only thing is that I use them a lot. Like I’ll constamtly spam them in the middle of a mob of enemies to distract them while my mercenary kills. But I have Spirit, Dire, Bear and HoW maxed out. I was gonna max out Oak to boost my summons’ life so they don’t die as easily against large groups of enemies and then switch to HoW for damage. Since no other summon seems to be that helpful, I was going to leave Spirit Wolves maxed. Does that seem like a viable plan since I want to remain a pure Summoner.

Quote (Belarathon @ Jun 18 2018 01:32am)

There is no such thing as an amp damage (charged) wand :/ But yeah, just try it as-is and you can always swap to Lawbringer if you find it too difficult. The problem is that those PI ghosts all crowd up the narrow pathways and there is no way to pass them (except a possibly dangerous teleport), and even with decrep/merc/grizzly and pretty nice gear I found it very hard to do nice damage. I guess we will see how your experiences go with it, looking forward to it ^_^

I think in Hell you will find Spirit Wolves quite useless. Dire Wolves can be nice vs large groups of smaller monsters like fallens or those act 3 pygmies, though. This is assuming that you are on P8. If you are on a lower setting, Spirit Wolves may work fine. I wouldn't max Oak and HoW both, but you should try it out if you want to and we can all see how it works :) And yeah, I suppose if you'd like to stay a pure summoner it makes sense to just keep the Spirit Wolves maxed, however I think my Grizzly had over 20k AR with only 1 pt to Spirit Wolves. Maybe those blinding ravens could be useful, didn't try them personally.

Whatever you choose, it'll be interesting to watch and GL :thumbsup:

Oh and to answer your question, yes he survived Hell. He was a pure summoner up until the end of act 2/beginning of act 3 Hell. Then I had nice enough gear to swap to a Summoner with Fireclaws backup for PI

Quote (BMar5452 @ Jun 18 2018 03:41pm)

Rip
582 hp tho