Does a few things, some of it's effects aren't available on Nasomi though, and some are questionable if they work here. As it stands, Summoner is in bad shape here on Nasomi. Most of the Bloodpact Rage damage formulas are a complete mess. I don't know how they perform against fodder-tier enemies, but against HNM and the like, they're significantly weaker than they should be, particularly, and grievously, Nether Blast.
Summoner was up there with Black Mage as prime damage dealers in era retail endgame, so I had a lot of experience with seeing them in action. Respectable damage per Bloodpact Rage that didn't feed enemies TP, I don't even know if the latter is true for this server.
Anyway, for your question, Summoning Magic does the following: (As I said above, it's questionable if what it should do works on Nasomi, but here is what it should do.)
-Decreases interruption rate of Summoning Magic. -Decreases the global cooldown of spellcasting for Elemental Spirits' spellcasting. -Unlocks higher tier spells, and other spells (such as Raise from Light Spirit) for Elemental Spirits. -Increases potency of Avatar's Favor (disabled on Nasomi). -Increases potency of Elemental Siphon (probably disabled on Nasomi, uncertain).
And finally, when you're over the skill cap of summoning magic (i.e: merits/equipment boosting summoning magic) for every 10 summoning magic over the cap, Bloodpact Wards receive a duration boost, while Bloodpact Rage receive an Accuracy/Magic Accuracy boost.
What Summoning Magic doesn't do:
-Decreases MP consumed from having Avatars summoned. -Increase the damage of Bloodpact Rage. -Increase the potency of Bloodpact Ward. -Increase the accuracy and attack of Avatars' standard (melee) attacks.
Damage from melee and Bloodpact Rage, and potency of Bloodpact Ward are increased only by equipment directly increasing them, and the level of the Avatar, that is based off the Summoner's level.
Accuracy of melee attacks will also only be improved by equipment and the Avatars' level, but over the cap Summoning Magic will improve the accuracy of Bloodpact Rage, as mentioned above.
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