Original Sin 2: So You Want To Be A Summoner (aka Sebille)

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Tips and theory on choosing who to make your Summoner character in Divinity Original SIn 2. Including on why you should play him as Sebille or simply an Elf with skills that you should pick up early and attributes you should prioritize.
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Overview of the Summoner Skill: 0:30
What race you should pick: 3:42
Build: 5:53
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[@Quackstack]

Totally didn't forget talents. If you couldn't find them, here's what I'd run: Get hothead (pew pew) Far out man (2m range matters. Ask her how she'd feel if your appendage was 2m longer) Elemental ranger and arrow recovery are traps. It's much easier to just buy or make the special arrows you need without wasting a talent point and elemental ranger most of the time is counter intuitive in the sense that it procs on the element the ENEMY is standing in, so if the enemy is like a fire slug making fire on the ground, you hitting it would heal it. After that choose between executioner and the pawn. I'd personally rather have the free re-positioning than an extra 2 ap maybe per combat encounter. I'm not ballsy enough to get glass cannon, cause I noticed they focus you so hard if you get it and I like my armor having a purpose XD

[@riddhidev]

I go with wands and shields for my summoner....actually scratch that, for every mage in my party. Shields make all users extremely tanky in the later parts of the game. Invest one point in warfare, and you can use shield throw which depends on the stats of the shield and only costs 2 AP. Given the fact that this game forces you to change your gear every one to two hours like an antivirus to keep up with the enemy levels, the damage numbers are really good on a consistent basis.Especially for teams focusing on armor breaks and cc chains.

[@caad5258]

Good advice, I have Ifan as a wayfarer at the moment, but I might respec him for summoning in the mirror.

[@seanpeery7780]

Is leech any good for a talent on an elf? Is the healing worth or, or does it even proc if you don't move?

[@riddhidev]

In D:OS 2, not much. Just take 5 points in necro, and it does the job way better, esp. when you do a ton of damage.

[@Basicallydirt]

shield bounce has the big advantage that it scales only of armor value. so its always a good pick up for mages in mixed partys.

[@Mazurecki56]

"When you cast Self Harm on your elf arm to give your elf harm..." Noice.

[@tenorfab]

DEER GOD my fave. Next was have fun summoning and watch out for trap cards.

[@goat813]

this dude is Eminem

[@Yeldibus]

"Cast self harm on your elf arm to give your elf harm"... ok,ok. I subscribe! Calm down! xD

[@LordBovyn]

For me it was the "sebile try to kill herself but it wasn't very effective" 😂😂😂 this man knows how to be funny

[@magikrap7309]

You are clearly a man with high standards. The words rhymed were elf and self & harm and arm. He literally rhymed elf with elf and harm with harm.

[@borginburkes1819]

The beauty of the English language.

[@AmberBoring]

I just recently discovered this game and I'm OBSESSED currently, so I really appreciate all your guides! I'm currently playing a conjuror and can use all the tips and tricks I can find 😅

[@jiriznamenacek6916]

Uses flesh sacrifice, incarnate: "It's free real estate"

[@_TheJesterShade]

I really like these guides. They explain the classes in depth and in a easy to understand way. Your humor is also greatly appreciated, keeping the guide entertaining and also dropping interesting tips and hints about the lesser known aspects of the game mechanics . I hope you continue making these for the rest of the classes, along with your suggestions for what companion best suits what class....Also first.

[@Vlegente]

My friends and I had a playthrough where I, the warrior, and my friend, the rogue, inspected the Incarnate and felt very inferior. We kept making comments like "what do you need us for, we'll just hold you back" "Why don't you just get the godlike incarnate to kill it or help you". The summoner then proceeded to solo 50% of the game.

[@furanku6022]

These are great, I cannot believe you've only been doing this a few weeks. You more than deserve the sub. Thanks for the build info!

[@ccchase420]

playing through this with my brother and i do wish you still made content. that said, everything here is amazing.

[@unclejesse2506]

Having a party member talk to the characters while you set up your incarnate and totems is brilliant

[@bAndyMYR]

man this kind of guides are really great. Thx for them!

[@MightyPacifist]

Genuinely you make solid tutorial and guid content and you dont have an annoying voice. It all works, you should upload more often, I think you will grow quickly.

[@WiredGuitars]

really good guides, keep them comin!

[@saljm697]

Thank you for the content, so glad to see new channels flourishing. You're great, and your sense of humor is spot on.

[@7218007]

thank you so much. I am a conjuration expert from skyrim and new to CRPGS and needed these tips for my elfy.

[@kingtrav]

Keep pumping these out and you'll get a bunch of subs from this game alone

[@huskytales9839]

Fantastic video, thank you for posting! Thumbs up.

[@RyanRyRyMcClean]

Hey man. I enjoyed this video a lot ^^ keep going!

[@hurtig0815]

Your videos are so entertaining. xD great job!

[@biggat4]

thanks man just started playing and this helped me out a bunch got straight to the point with out spoiler and 10min of talking about hotdogs

[@KadeMadina]

Summoner+huntsman+polymorph on Sebile =GG. Stacking spread your wings and tactical retreat is insanely useful on her as you can reposition with haste, flesh sacrifice, summon, buff summon once and then get your wings out or just buff summon twice. My Sebile generally spends the fight summoning and flying around taking any opportunities that arise to use marksmans fang on any targets my mage is working on so I can ignore physical armor on enimies who have a lot of it but are lacking magic armor. The Medusa head skill is also a nice clutch CC for later on in fights once the barriers have been sufficiently weakened or destroyed.

[@ManVsWildSE]

You made me want to play a marksman-summoner :D ! Good video btw

[@drmurkinu7663]

Dig the guide man keep em up!

[@mikegeorge5344]

"finesse armor usually splits physical and magical armor equally" *next screen shown* his character has 118 physical armor and 63 magical armor. *equal*

[@lividlife213]

As all things should be

[@EgnachHelton]

Honestly in the mid to late game you are better off with 2 strength and 2 intelligence armors, resulting stronger defense on both physical and magical defense.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

@@EgnachHelton but they have requirements to wear you can't have both

[@lvx969]

"I just hit 50 subscribers". Lol.

[@Montsleets1968]

thx for guide/content my dude

[@degreeskelvin3025]

Waiting with immense anticipation for your BG3 class guides

[@JonJick]

Only youtuber that makes this game way more simple than it truly is

[@NotaVampyre111]

You only had 50 subs when you posted this? You have one a long way. I am playing this game for the first time with a summoned as my main. What I just learned was invaluable. I've been doing it all wrong.

[@gdone9276]

Keep up the great work.

[@-pressxtostart-]

Brilliant video!

[@whitezul]

Super great guide!

[@Sircheezy]

Great video mate, very insightful. Is there any chance you can do one on a healer build?

[@SekaiCake]

Thank you

[@RonnerFTW]

very entertaining! more asap! (:

[@blindtruth4614]

Great guide thank you

[@darkpython2008]

Thanks for the advice, I was wondering what talent's you started with and what ones you picked up later? pet pal ect

[@valmyrlyfra8775]

really helpful! ty! 😀

[@wheelchazeal8089]

Dude I love the humor in these.

[@bigal1093]

Nice summary :)

[@vaporiiz]

Thanks! Subbed

[@Deadhammer218]

I'm creating my first character (Red Prince) as we speak, and I read somewhere that Power Infusions increase the damage of Incarnate by 25%, even though it does not specify it in the infusion spell. As I stated, I didn't start the game yet, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

[@IsaiahXA]

great video

[@YouGuessIGuess]

Nice guide! Any plans for an enchanter one, or something for the Lizards?

[@Dithanaor]

I swear I heard "Or Aerith if it's a Cloud"

[@Quackstack]

;)

[@22TheJuggernaut]

One good thing about playing an undead as a Summoner is that you can spawn poison totems and they shoot and heal you. I'm not sure of the threshold were they choose to shoot u and heal, or shoot an enemy though...

[@YourBoyNobody530]

I advise dropping some points into necromancy for blood rain as it buffs your incarnates and let’s you get some extra healing by using blood sucker.

[@CthuluPrawn]

I find summoning is really good early game (act 1). Later their good to take a few hits and die. I currently run a 2 hand heavy damage with a bit of necro to keep her alive. A rogue with polymorph for extra cc. Huntsman with a spattering of scoundrel and polymorph. Then a stun and heal mage . Buffs the party a lot. Works great .

[@GomuGomu4]

Thanks for this. I have no idea what I'm doing. I made two profile one is the one I have no idea what I'm doing the other is testing diff class.

[@vwertix1662]

You could also go with fane and use the mask of the shapeshifter to get flesh sacrifice and time warp.

[@purpleey]

i busted a nut inside fane lol

[@McSweetalot]

Thanks for the guide! Could you do a strong party to start with for beginners? I'd appreciate a guide that would show me some good characters to do some awesome combos. Thanks!

[@hugolundblad6036]

Ur AWESOME!!

[@vratsukauminotica9603]

Maybe it's so late... but... you can summon air element from blood/water that have electricity in it... i happen summon 1 and totem too from there... so it's not just cloud

[@Catalist223]

ya came a long way from 50 subscribers

[@arkhavengaming9719]

I wanted to try a dual lone wolf playthrough with 2 undead characters (Fane and Undead Elf). One would be mostly summon and Geo and the other would be Mostly Summon Pyro. Both would have a point in many of the other combat abilities for buffs and the like. My friend said that Summoning skills drop off towards the end of the game. Is that true? If not what do you think about this setup?

[@samuelbreitenbach4830]

whats the background music you were using for this? it sounds so familiar to me its driving me crazy i cant think of it

[@pogchamp1038]

yo is this build possible with rogue? Seems like you'd want to max scoundrel and warfare (if I've done my research correctly) but will you be spread too thin to run lvl10 conjuration? With rogue, I'd also envision using more mobility spells like tac retreat and phoenix dive. I know I'm like 5 years late but lmk what you think about this.

[@azell2913]

1:22 Geomancer has summon blob and you get the summonable cat if you keep him alive through fort joy which scale from summoning aswell

[@13Scott995]

can you only have one of them active at a time though?

[@Abudzin]

Is that Ori and the Blind Forest music in the background?

[@Taskun56]

"I just hit 50 subs and that's incredible." ::looks at sub count now, including self:: 15k+ Noice.

[@BOMEFSY]

What attributes do you take?

[@bomjus1706]

if you are playing as a non-origin character, elf* is the best. but if you are playing as an origin character fane is by far the best. because later on when you have an abundance of source to work with you can use fane's special ability to give yourself an extra turn. this extra AP on the first turn is amazing on a summoner because it can let you buff your incarnate even more, place a totem, or haste your allies with the extra ap you now have. the synergy is great.

[@Grandmaster-Kush]

My first playthrough was summoning, and honestly I wish i'd pick something else, the tree is underwhelming compared to the eletric or water tree, but heyo.

[@Azhureus]

I couldn't resist, Fane is my summoner. It's just the fact that he is a skeleton, that is usually connected to necromancy and thus to summoning undead and so on.

[@mr.voidroy6869]

What happend to the talents?

[@ninvusoogoar6098]

doesnt really work for higher difficulty settings for they get cheesed or 1-2 hit early on. ranger is also shit for summoner... a summoner u want to have a fuck ton of buffs to keep them alive. geomancer/summoner with some hydro skills for magic armor is ideal. undead are vastly better for summoners because the use of poison totems will also attack your undead party members to heal them! i always make sure my party has 1 point into summoner just for totems and the incarnet for meat shield. geomancer is just so good with this combo. i usually play on tactician with both characters using lonewolf, both undead and while i always play summoner i make sure the other guy has some points into it and necro for the self healing when dealing damage. i also go a mix of medium/heavy armor for my summoners and use a shield for better protections and both armors. with everyone undead and loads of poison totems around the field you will rarely die if at all in most fights. and with crafting larger poison potions your healing will be even better and even if you go with the normal 4 man group if all of them are undead then you do not need to waste a character slot on healer when you can just have another damage dealer using poison, i still go with a buff bot in my party because they are so good for higher difficulties.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

keep in mind this was made years ago many updates happened after this, humans make very good rangers now, since their racial trait as been buffed twice and they deal extra crit damage on top of critical chance

[@rejaxreject8422]

I made a lone wolf summoner/cleric tank with a wizard wayfarer that are both lizards.

[@AineSolace]

I would suggest 2 points into warfare and 2 in aerothurge (might have spelled that wrong) but I like to teleport bag guys away from me and the warfare I can give my summon enraged so he crits

[@duskshadow25]

So you are choosing ranger as the starting class but put 1 point into summoning? Or do you recommend choosing conjure first and put 1 point into huntsman? Does this even matter?

[@nate21623]

I tried to cast toon world and nothing happened :(

[@TheBenjaminjkim]

How did you allocate your Attributes, talents, and abilities during character creation?

[@Quackstack]

+TheBenjaminjkim Dumped all in finesse starting out 1 in summoning 1 in huntsman Hot head first then far out man for talents I'd max finess, putting points into memory when you need it (4 is plenty, but up to your discretion) Max summoning then, with at least 2 hunter and I like running 1 scoundrel for the adrenaline skill and the pawn talent.

[@briangorman3599]

I built my summoner as a cc buff necro and had it set up as pretty much being insanely hard to pin down due to having 3 teleports smoke cover and invisibility

[@skleem4871]

Lol this is good and funny nice

[@midnightsleeper564]

tbh I've played as Prince just for the extra summon when you get to arx. also you can go any other school you want to... I've used ranger, scoundrel, necro and warfare. scoundrel is cool because you get the pawn... for extra free move and the cloak and Dagger skill is worth it. ranger I never liked the elemental arrows when your just gunna use your summons to kill everything anyway. necro for summons only... if need be. warfare movement skill gives fire so can be useful to move away or get closer.... But great guide... polymorph is a fun class too :)

[@pogchamp1038]

question for you: Would a lvl 10 conjuration work with a rogue build with scoundrel and warfare? I can't recall how the points spread out in the later game and just want some guidance before I begin my next playthrough. The idea is to use scoundrel, warfare (for daggers and chloroform), polymorph (for chicken and chameleon), huntsman for tac retreat and possibly first aid, and if I can swing it, conjuration seems fun. Thanks so much.

[@BoojaxD]

9:40 We have Odinblades class reworks installed in our run and my friend plays the new Umbra class (rogue+ I guess?) and I have a class called gravecaller (necro summoner basically). I can summon an undead assassin and my friend hates it. Because that thing oneshots him and does about 3 times as much damage than him. Everytime I summon him I say something like: "let me get better you"

[@TheHICDealer]

I mean I use Ifan as my summoner as he has a summon source skill and the wolf is great when buffed by summoner level and with pet power gift bag the wolf becomes a amazing tank that hits like a truck with sparking swings , using a ranged option with dust blast and a dodge tank with uncanny evasion I haven’t seen blood or water yet but I’ll see those soon.

[@Blondesax]

I guess I lucked out on my first blind playthrough as a ranged summoner. Way to go, me?

[@OneKnightGaming]

They took out my summon's taunt :'( I wonder if they get it later in the game now. While I do like your idea of adding summoner to an elf ranger build, rangers are auto attack based and while the incarnate is cool it just costs too much AP for too little damage to use totems over an auto imho. So yes, it's a decent build, but I'm not sure I'd put more than 1 or 2 points into summoning as my ranger.

[@jasonblack5179]

How can you travel with companions on the ship right away?

[@Chromodar]

Doe the Enrage skill from Warfare work on summons? If so, seems really fucking strong to use on Incarnate or Bone Widow.

[@helveticastandard388]

yes it does. its fucking strong af especially since most of the time your incarnate probably isnt looking to cast his elemental spell

[@naterisawesome1]

I play as a summoner. Just finished act 1. And idk why but when you said the "summons asked what he did wrong" made me tear up a second....😂😂 I'm still trying to figure out how to make him useful. He's only got 4 AP. I'm playing as a summoner/Necro/ with a touch of poly.

[@prototypeAleks]

Hey buddy what is your fav class in this game?

[@BDubz439]

Anyone with a summoner, combine a pyro source skill book and a summoner skill book to create a hellfire buff. Turns your champion from a monster into a god!

[@ihavenoidea6345]

I want to try this game and I either want a wizard or a summoner dunno which to pick

[@hugo9029]

what type of armor did you use?

[@ChacarronDE]

Hey Quackstack, I wanted to be that guy: What's the song in the background, which is most noticeable at around 9:10 and onward.

[@Quackstack]

+ChacarronDE all the background music is actually from the soundtrack of the game! I believe it's a song in the latter half of the ost you can find on KZbin.

[@ChacarronDE]

Thanks for the reply, I've found it! For everyone who's looking as well, the song is "Divinity Original Sin 2 OST - [16] Rivellon (Light)" kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2fcY2h_mdKoY5Y

[@cookies23z]

Holy fuck that last line: I love you now.

[@Gothaman1]

Something to note,' poison totems can be used to heal your undead

[@user-qd9rg3wy2n]

Fire appears somehow Me: flashback to Red Prince burning Melee Ifan because I did not know that Fireball is AOE spell

[@KevinPGrant]

I inadvertently built my coop character like this without knowing it was recommended, I started an elf ranger and started getting summoning skills so I figured what the hell, might as well since I cant always get the highground . and it basically gave us like 3 more turns. I like it quite a bit also , since I'm an elf would u recommend getting leech since we use self harm getting the blood we need to heal ourselves?

[@Quackstack]

+Kouska Chikara No, that talent is pretty much useless because the healing is tiny. You won't need health every combat, so you're better off getting something that you would use every combat like more damage or utility instead.

[@KevinPGrant]

Quackstack righto, I was on the fence about it since I didn't know how strong it was

[@JosieJOK]

As a Ranger, you'll have access to First Aid, which is awesome healing. You may also want to put a couple points into Polymorph for the wings and especially Chameleon Cloak--enemies can't hurt you if they can't see you! Also, once you finish pumping points into Summoning, put a bunch into Warfare--this will give you better damage than Ranged and you can also take the Picture of Health talent, which will give you extra vitality for each point invested in Warfare.

[@nascar4ever27]

I kind of fell into using summoning and my build has shifted heavily from scoundrel to summoner so have that strong boy to beat up that mean magister that stole my lunch money

[@dallasfavel4817]

U can get a talent that lets ur spells Crit and ur summon counts as ur spell.

[@5H4D3]

I guess I should tell my friend(playing Ifan ranger in our group) to invest some points into summoming, his wolf isn't worth the cost to summon him at the moment, it dies nearly instantly.

[@Javmonster]

So when i'm creating a character I can pick either summoner or ranger. How did you get both?

[@llamadeusmozart]

Is there a difference between "summoner" and "conjurer"?

[@jadenquest9544]

Want to know as well

[@codyhawkcaster4671]

Can you do one for Lohse

[@Ploven1]

Which talent should I pick at the beginning? I am new to the genre so I have no idea what to do

[@SgtHatred42]

Pet Pal talking to animals is really useful in this game

[@bagiee1]

Attack of Opportunity...for all melee, close combat characters.

[@CptZhu]

I truly wish to know why you stopped editing videos man. Why?

[@zephyrzero7910]

How well would summoning work with necromancy?

[@boardmike82]

They get health back when they attack. So pretty well

[@nikolasprince1604]

Love your jokes