Hey all! I was curious how much you guys have messed with summoning.
I was specifically curious what stats your summons use from your character (both your incarnation and also your totems), and also how effective a finesse build vs a non finesse build has been if anyone has had time to try both.
I have just left fort joy on a finesse playthrough and my totems do a ton of damage but my incarnate lags behind despite all of the infusions i give him (melee + ranged, sometimes the 50% damage buff) but the "finesse" scaling skills seem to do about the same as a regular melee attack (approximately 1/3-1/2 of what a single totem does. I'm also using bows on this character, and always equipping the best i can find because the tooltip implies that your weapon damage increases the damage dealt by whirlwind / battering ram / ranged attack.
It seems kind of off, but maybe I'm missing something. I believe that the totems dont scale with finesse or weapon damage so its surprising they are outscaling the incarnation so hard (I understand they serve a completely different function but it seems pretty pointless to try a finesse build if the incarnation carries the least amount of responsibility in my group).
/rant over