Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="andy3k" data-source="post: 5532938" data-attributes="member: 6674918"><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/members/mneme.html" target="_blank">mneme</a>The shaman spirit companion does not do a good enough job of encouraging foes to attack it instead of allies. Also, when my shaman spirit goes up against a brute or solo that a defender can hold off, the spirit does not attract enough attention AND usually gets destroyed by the hard hits of the brute/solo.Tony VargasI see that you and I are developing two different kinds of ranged defenders. Or am I reading your posts incorrectly? From what I can tell, you are developing an anti-ranged defender who supports a melee defender. I, on the other hand, am trying to develop an anti-melee defender who can also target ranged opponents with limited defender effects. So, to this extent, I think that you should lead the effort to develop the anti-ranged (with a hint of anti-melee) defender while I lead the effort to build an anti-melee (with a hint of anti-ranged) defender. EveryoneIf we place a ward or pledge on our allies (instead of marking foes) then that protection should transfer damage from the ally to the defender. The defender giving the ally hp or temp hp, or blocking hits, feels more like a leader to me. I want to keep intact the concept that the defender should be absorbing damage that would otherwise be directed to the ally (if not taking the hits himself). Yes, I know that paladin and swordmage can heal instead of absorb ... but then why create another defender that does the same thing?That's why my idea of the defender having a pet works beautifully. The pet is there to absorb hits, the pet's hp and/or healing is pulled from the defender's hp/surge pool, and the defender can range  attack because foes are encouraged to attack the pet and not the defender.One step further, we have spirit companion (shaman = leader), animal companion (ranger = striker), and familiar (wizard = controller). So now we need a defender with a pet, anyway. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> The more I think about it, the more I like the concept of a defender with a punching bag pet. Can I get an amen? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

Verification