Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="evilbob" data-source="post: 4660774" data-attributes="member: 9789">And that's a good idea - the Shaman and the Ranger (and maybe the Druid?) all already have "companions" - so to speak - that can be reskinned, and that's cool.  What the summoner has, though, is simple daily powers that create a creature for that battle only.  That seems a little closer to what I imagine the necromancer will be:  someone who raises a temporary army of multiple creatures to command for about 5 minutes.  (You know, Diablo II-like.)  This is in addition to the non-attacking creatures that are simple servants (like in Open Grave).  But who knows - maybe the long-term "companion" will make it as well.What is interesting to me is how the devs took Flaming Sphere (the far and away best level 1 wizard daily) and reskinned -it- to be a summoned creature with only a couple changes:  they dropped the auto-damage and in turn it sustains itself.  That's an interesting balance scheme, and it seems like an... interesting direction (and it also settles - in my opinion, anyway - on Flaming Sphere being the baseline power for a wizard daily).  I'm guessing we may also see wizard at-will powers that are just straight up better than what we already have...</blockquote>