Summoner

Summoner is the final ability class in the game, and costs 160  to unlock. Summoner is specializing in summoning creatures, as the name of the class suggests.

## Abilities and weapons

Since summoner is an ability class, it has 2 abilities and 1 weapon being the basic sword. Staff of Cthulu is the first ability, and it summons an eyeball. The dark magic is the second ability, and is summoner's main source of damage. Dark magic should be used when damage is needed against monsters with high damage, and the staff of Cthulu is the primary source of healing and gaining stats as summoner. It is also used to upgrade dark magic, since it can summon the purple eye.

## Skills

The 3 summoner skills synergizes with the abilities summoner has. The skills are Shadow blast, summon bug and raise dead, and they are all active skills, meaning that the player have to activate the skill in order to get the value. Shadow blast synergizes well with staff of Cthulu since it kills an eyeball that it summons immediately. Summon bug is also a very useful skill, since it can summon a butterfly or a mana fly, which can give the summoner even more stats. Raise dead is the most expensive skill, but is very useful since it will summon the last monster the player has defeated, which could be an eyeball, since these are very valuable monsters to kill.

## Strategy and gameplay

The general game plan for summoner is to upgrade the Dark magic ability as much as possible, while also gaining a lot of health (by increasing the maximum HP), making the class strong enough to defeat the final boss. This is achieved by using the staff of Cthulu as many times as possible, in order to summon the necessary eyeballs.

### Overall strategy

In the early game, it can be a good idea to use the staff of Cthulu as often as possible, since this can get you eyeballs with great loot. Unlocking the skills as early as possible is crutial, since the provide great fighting abilities. Unlocking summon bug as the first attribute is often a good idea, since it only costs 1 point in wisdom, which is probably the best attribute on summoner, since it makes both your abilities deal even more damage. In the later game, the player should aim to unlock raise dead, since it allows the player to respawn the best monsters, which allows you to kill more monsters than normal, which will allow the player to gain even more loot. When you are fighting the final boss, the player should aim to have a lot of mana, and deal most of the damage with the dark magic ability.

### Items

Deciding which items and potions to get is crucial for a good run with summoner. Since summoner can gain a lot of health (player) by slaying eyeballs, the dark grimoire is an excellent item for summoner, as you can trade your health into precious experience. Items that buffs your abilities are also essential, since summoner uses the abilities often. This is items such as the components of ruby and sapphire as well as book of wonders.

Items that should be bought with caution is items like jester's hat, since these will change the loot from the eyeballs, thus removing the ability to upgrade the dark magic ability.

### Other strategies

Since summoner has the ability to replace the current monster with another monster, it allows for some fancy strategies, that can have a massive effect on the gameplay when mastered. Since you are able swap out the current monster with the skills raise dead and summon bug, you can replace a skull with a bug or another monster. This is also possible to do with the mini bosses in legendary mode, however this is not possible to do with The Blob in normal mode.