User blog:Spinfx/Some crazy ideas

So a comment by Zenotraxium on the Sorcerer article reminded me we don't have a summoner class. Imagine the over-the-top shenanigans a DD-style summoner could get up to.

Maybe something out of left field, like summoning a harpy which carries you so you can cast in midair, safely away from ground combat.

A pillar of rock rises under your feet, and brine-infested water floods the surrounding area for a minute. Okay that's not really a summoning but maybe we can put a face to the brine. Let's pray it doesn't look like Nicolas Cage.

A legion of ghostly soldiers rises up from the ground and swarms your target.

A cloud of bats envelop the target, pulls it down, and drains the life out of it.

A portal to The Rift opens, disgorging a bunch of extra pawns who fight alongside you for a while. Yea kinda bland but I imagine having 5 extra sorcs sync to insta-cast, say, grand bolide every other second would make up for it. This would also probably fry the console's CPU though.

The clouds part, and in a dramatic cone of light a huge hand (the seneschal's) comes down and flattens the target.

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I really wish this got a PC release. I'd rape mod it so hard. I'd toss out gimmicky crap like Frazil and turn it into a cone-of-cold breath weapon. So instead of this wishy washy "you're frozen! maybe! ok now you're not!" spell you'd have a directed blast kinda like comestion except radiating away from you in a cold wave which would freeze everything in it's path and drop fliers it hits. I imagine it would have pretty crap stagger (I think getting frozen would stop a target's current animation though anyway) but it'd inflict nice ice damage. Of course you still have to stand still so it's not like it's overpowered, I mean look at maelstrom.