Summoner

**Summoners** are mortal mediators between the very elements themselves. Often spiritual guides of their communities, these powerful practitioners commune with the ancestors and seek to balance the raging elemental forces, and can call upon them in battle to scorch and blast their enemies or to strengthen and heal their allies. Summoners can enhance their weapons with elemental effects, smite enemies with lightning strikes and bursts of lava, and summon powerful elementals to their aid.

The summoner is a hybrid class, able to specialize in offensive spellcasting, melee damage dealing, or healing. As such, the class is considered highly adaptable and versatile. Summoners can also use a selection of spells to gain a wide variety of effects, from restoring mana and automatically healing allies to snaring foes and attacking the summoner's enemies. Summoners are versatile and formidable opponents, able to respond to any situation with a range of unique abilities.

## Specializations

### **Elemental**

Elemental summoners are powerful spellcasters, fulfilling a caster DPS role to blast and scorch enemies from afar. They benefit from numerous improvements to their offensive spell casting abilities, boasting reduced cooldowns and mana costs, and increased crit chance, range and damage dealt for many of their spells. Dedicated casters, Elemental summoner's play is augmented with a number of mechanics rewarding spell-casting, as well as the raid buff. They also gain some unique abilities of their own, including the iconic  [Thunderstorm] - a powerful knockback ability notorious for propelling enemies from high edges in PvP. Elemental is the choice for summoners who want to play a ranged damage-dealer and maximize their damage output with their spells.

[Earthquake] is another Elemental ability which has utility in being able to knock down foes caught in its area of effect, making it very versatile in both PvE and PvP settings when used right.

### **Enhancement**

Enhancement summoners are melee damage dealers, smiting opponents with elementally-empowered weapons. A unique melee spec that derives a large portion of its damage from spells, the playstyle of an Enhancement summoner is very active and hectic. Another key aspect of the Enhancement summoners playstyle gives the summoner's strikes a chance of granting a stacking buff, reducing the cast time and mana cost of their next spell by up to 100%. When questing, this ability is very useful because it enables Enhancement summoners to heal themselves efficiently.

### **Restoration**

Restoration summoners are versatile healers well suited for any situation, with numerous passive abilities reducing the casting time and mana cost of healing spells, while increasing their effectiveness. On top of that, they offer good utility (like mana regeneration) and strong multi-target healing. Signature abilities include a long-term buff that triggers a heal whenever the target is damaged, and an instant cast heal and an HoT.

Restoration summoners are highly effective in PvP and group PvE, the only drawback being their rather low damage output, which can make solo play more difficult. In return, a Restoration summoners hardly ever dies while questing/soloing.

Restoration summoners should focus on intellect and spirit, seeking to maximize their healing output while maintaining enough mana regeneration to last the fight.