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Best Summoner Build Guide for Ifan Ben-Mezd in Divinity Original Sin 2
This guide presents an summoner build for Ifan Ben-Mezd in Divinity Original Sin 2, combining summoning abilities with hydrosophist and necromancy for support. It focuses on vitality and skills that don't scale with intelligence, using Living Armour for greater resistance and crowd control. The build takes advantage of the synergy between skills for effective support and consistent damage through summons and elemental totems.
1. 🐺 Introduction to Ifan's summoner build and general strategy
- ✅ Ifan Ben-Mezd works well as a summoner, taking advantage of his spirit wolf team to tank.
- ✅ Summoners have difficulty doing direct damage, focusing on summoning the Incarnate and elemental totems.
- ✅ The build focuses on support skills like Living on the Edge and Last Rites to keep the team alive.
- ✅ Shackles of Pain is used to passively inflict damage on enemies.
- ✅ The team composition allows for various summoning options based on elemental surfaces (fire, ice, blood).
- ✅ The Incarnate can be customized for healing or damage, and the elemental totems provide constant damage.
- ✅ Power Infusion is prioritized on the Incarnate to increase its power.
- ✅ The main goal is to reach 10 in the Summoning skill as soon as possible.
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1. 🐺 Introduction to Ifan's summoner build and general strategy
- ✅ Ifan Ben-Mezd works well as a summoner, taking advantage of his spirit wolf team to tank.
- ✅ Summoners have difficulty doing direct damage, focusing on summoning the Incarnate and elemental totems.
- ✅ The build focuses on support skills like Living on the Edge and Last Rites to keep the team alive.
- ✅ Shackles of Pain is used to passively inflict damage on enemies.
- ✅ The team composition allows for various summoning options based on elemental surfaces (fire, ice, blood).
- ✅ The Incarnate can be customized for healing or damage, and the elemental totems provide constant damage.
- ✅ Power Infusion is prioritized on the Incarnate to increase its power.
- ✅ The main goal is to reach 10 in the Summoning skill as soon as possible.
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2. 💪 Key attributes, skills, and talents for the build
- ✅ Attributes: Good memory is needed for skills, but intelligence is not a priority as damage spells are not used.
- ✅ Constitution is important to increase health, making Ifan a tank support character.
- ✅ Around 23 memory is recommended to have enough skills prepared.
- ✅ Skills: Summoning is the main one, followed by Necromancy and Hydrosophist for support and healing.
- ✅ Talents: Elemental Affinity reduces the AP cost when on elemental surfaces.
- ✅ Far Out Man increases the summoning range.
- ✅ Living Armour converts 35% of healing received into magic armor.
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3. 💀 Necromancy skills and their synergy with the build
- ✅ Elemental Affinity is crucial to reduce the AP cost, especially with a team that uses water and arrow skills.
- ✅ Far Out Man allows summoning in a larger area.
- ✅ Living Armour is valuable for converting healing into magic armor, especially with the Soulmate skill.
- ✅ Necromancy Skills: Living on the Edge and Last Rites combine to keep allies alive.
- ✅ Soulmate can be used on enemies to damage them when receiving healing.
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4. 💧 Hydrosophist skills for support and control
- ✅ Armor of Frost provides magic armor and heals frozen, stunned, and petrified characters.
- ✅ Cryogenic Stasis protects an ally from damage.
- ✅ Healing Ritual heals in an area.
- ✅ Cleanse Wounds removes negative effects and heals.
- ✅ Restoration heals bleeding and poisoning.
- ✅ Arcane Stitch restores magic armor.
- ✅ Nether Swap and Teleportation (Aerotheurge skills) offer mobility and control.
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5. ✨ Summoning and warfare skills for mobility and support
- ✅ Conjure Incarnate is the main skill, summoning an Incarnate that adapts to the element of the ground.
- ✅ Elemental Totem is used every turn for constant damage.
- ✅ Power Infusion increases the Incarnate's damage.
- ✅ Farsight Infusion gives the Incarnate a ranged attack.
- ✅ Soulmate heals the team and damages certain bosses.
- ✅ Dimensional Bolt is not recommended due to low intelligence.
- ✅ Cannibalize allows sacrificing summons to heal the team.
- ✅ Bone Widow is an option for physical teams.
- ✅ Soul Wolf attracts aggro.
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6. 🛡️ Recommended equipment and weapons for the build
- ✅ Health is prioritized in the equipment to stay alive.
- ✅ Equipment with bonuses to Summoning and Hydrosophist is sought.
- ✅ A wand is used for precision and surface creation.
- ✅ A shield provides additional defense.
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7. ⚔️ Combat strategy and demonstration of the build in action
- ✅ Start by summoning the Incarnate on an elemental surface (fire) and a totem.
- ✅ Use Power Infusion and Farsight Infusion on the Incarnate.
- ✅ Summon totems each turn on elemental surfaces.
- ✅ Use Tactical Retreat for mobility.
- ✅ Heal allies as needed.
- ✅ Use Soulmate with potions for massive healing.
- ✅ The Incarnate is used for damage and control.