What summons should I have my Druid Remember?
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I am using Jaheira right now and am wondering what summon spells are the best I haven't tried a druid before.
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Call woodland beings summon up a dryad, she is very fragile in melee but is an excellent spell caster and can cast multiple 4th-5th lvl spells! Quite effective for a lvl 4 spell. It is a very good utility summon that can confuse, hold and electrocute enemies with spells and also can cast mass cure!
Fire elemental summon is very powerful, immune to normal weapons, and a very efficient troll killer and spell disrupter thanks to its bonus fire damage. It is also immune to fire, naturally.
Other animal type summons are too weak to be useful IMHO.
Level 4: Call Woodland Beings. It's a casting of the level 5 healing spell Mass Cure that sticks around to cast a few more encounter-winning spells like Confusion and Hold Monster. I rarely spend level 4 druid slots on anything else, until very late in the game.
Level 6: Fire elementals - an excellent melee summon, immune to normal and +1 weapons, deals good damage, lasts an hour.
Those two spells, plus Insect Plague and Iron Skins at level 5, are the druid's main advantage over a cleric.
Yeap - insect plague is the “I win” button for every mage fight in the unmodded game.
My other favourite is “Greater Elemental Summoning”. The elemental princes are gated, not summoned, they are (IMO) the second best helper you can get after the Planetar, and your Druid can have an elemental prince at the same time you mage has a planetar
you summon some animals that are not strong summons at all, but can be sent one by one to have an enemy mage waste on them his dispel magic or death spells, it is annoying when you waste a high level slot to summon a strong creature or buff a toon and as the enemy mage is approached he waste all your effort with a death spell or a dispel magic, so is better to have some cheap low level summons to suck those spells.
be aware that the animals tend to pack together and follow the one you send forward, so you have to click often to override their AI until they are far enough from each other to stop trying to pack together.
low level animals are also useful to suck the breath attack of the dragons if you time correctly when he will use it and only the expendable animal is there in that moment while you have retreated the fighters some seconds before.