SpiritVale – Summoner Guide

Summoner Guide for Beginners

The Summoner is a hybrid caster and pet class. Your own spells scale differently from your minions, making it important to understand what affects each.

Summoner Spell Mechanics

Damage Type

Summoner skills are magic spells.

They benefit from:

• Magic Damage %
• ATK
• MATK
• STR
• INT

They do not benefit from:

• Melee Damage %
• Ranged Damage %

Element

All Summoner spells are Neutral by default and inherit the element of your equipped weapon.

Examples:

• Fire weapon → Soul Strike deals Fire damage.
• Fields and Dissonance Well also inherit your weapon’s element.

This allows you to freely change your spell element by switching weapons.

Stat Scaling

Summoner spells scale from:

• ATK
• MATK
• STR
• INT

Recommended caster stat distribution:

Stat	Value
INT	99
STR	99
DEX	50
VIT	50–55
AGI	1
LUK	1

Minion Mechanics

What Minions Inherit

Minions inherit 100% of all item-based stats, including:

• Attack Speed
• Elemental Damage %
• Skill Damage
• Auto-cast chance
• Artifact bonuses
• Neutral skill bonuses
• Equipment effects

In short, almost every bonus provided by equipment is transferred to your minions.

Base Stats Are Not Inherited

Only stats granted by equipment are inherited.

Example:

INT 99 +20

• 99 = Base stat (not inherited)
• +20 = Gear bonus (inherited)

Weapon Element

Minions inherit your weapon element.

Their basic attacks adopt your weapon’s element, allowing you to freely change their elemental damage by changing weapons.

Some abilities also inherit your weapon element.

Example:

• Golden Hammer + Dog Bowwow Card → Fire Soul Strike autocast
• Wolf abilities (Twin Cleave, Shadow Step, Shadow Release) become Fire element.

Some pet-exclusive skills retain their original element.

Example:

• Cat’s Lightning Bolt and Lightning Release always remain Wind.

Pet Spell Scaling

Minion spells do not scale from STR or INT.

Only the base ATK/MATK scaling shown on the skill applies.

Example:

100% MATK + ATK per level
+2% MATK/ATK per INT

Only the first (white) value is used by minions.

Because of this, increasing STR or INT has relatively little effect on pet damage.

For pet builds, prioritize:

• Skill Damage %
• Elemental Damage %
• Attack Speed

Range

The only stat minions never inherit is attack range.

All minions always fight in melee range.

Recommended Leveling Stats

Early progression:

• INT → 50
• STR → 50
• If survivability is an issue, raise VIT to 50.

Final recommended stats:

Stat	Value
INT	99
STR	99
VIT	55
DEX	50
AGI	1
LUK	1

Recommended Skills

Choose one primary minion.

Good early options:

• Wolf
• Cat

Other options:

• Angel becomes very strong around level 40.
• Cactus deals lower damage but is an excellent tank.

Recommended skill priorities:

• Summon Attack Lv.1 (very useful for directing pet aggro)
• Soul Strike Lv.5
• Arcane Surge Lv.10
• Bestial Wrath Lv.10

Heal and Haste are useful early, although many endgame builds obtain Lv.5 versions through cards.

Beginner Auto-Attack Summoner

This build focuses on pet DPS through Attack Speed.

Roll AGI on all equipment whenever possible.

Equipment

Slot	Item
Head	Drooping Cat
Weapon	4-Slot Kunai + Wind Mage Card + 3× Cat Meow Cards
Face	Phantom Mask
Armor	Ashwalker Set
Accessories	2× Skull Pendant or 2× Bronze Plugs
Card	Elder Wisp Purple
Artifact	Blitzcore

Preferred weapon substats:

• Magic Damage
• MATK %

Beginner Spell Caster

This version focuses on spell damage.

Roll INT on all equipment.

Equipment

Slot	Item
Head	Drooping Cat
Weapon	Rod + Wind Mage Card + 3× Cat Meow Cards
Face	Scholar Glasses
Utility	Star + Spike Card
Armor	Spellthread Set
Accessories	2× Azure Prism or 2× Bronze Plugs
Card	Elder Wisp Purple
Artifact	Arcanum

Preferred weapon substats:

• Magic Damage
• MATK %

This version generally performs better during early progression.

Around levels 70–100, consider upgrading to:

• Runesmasher
• Crystal Hammer

You can also switch to Angel or Cactus for greater survivability.

Advanced Caster Build

Recent balance changes significantly reduced caster damage and self-sustain, making this build less dominant than before.

Roll INT on all equipment.

Equipment

Slot	Item
Head	Night Helm
Face	Resonant Headphones or Scholar Glasses
Weapon	Crystal Slammer + Elemental Card
Utility	Mystery Crystal Cache or Elemental Booster
Armor	Mind Plate
Legs	Weaver + 2× Ghost Cards
Shoes	Night Boots or Witchsteps Shoes
Accessories	Mind Gauntlet + Azure Tag (Elemental Damage Card)
Artifact Set	Eternis

Advanced Tank Caster

A survivability-focused version that also makes your pet significantly tougher because Endurance transfers to minions.

Equipment

Slot	Item
Head	Night Helm
Face	Snowbun Earmuffs
Weapon	Staff of Eternis + Elemental Card or Bloom of Midnight + Archangel Card
Utility	Warborn Aegis
Armor	Endurance Plate + Elemental Card
Legs	Night Greaves
Shoes	Night Boots or Cleric Shoes
Accessories	Endurance Gauntlet + Bronze Crescent
Artifact Set	Eternis

Notes:

• Staff of Eternis and Bloom of Midnight provide stronger healing.
• Crystal Slammer is still preferred if spamming Dissonance Well.
• Night Boots provide higher Defense.
• Cleric Shoes provide +10% Healing and an extra card slot.
• Bronze Crescent adds valuable HP regeneration.

Advanced Cat Build

A high single-target DPS setup.

Equipment

Slot	Item
Head	Drooping Cat
Weapon	Golden Hammer + Wind Mage Card + 2× Soul Cards
Off-Hand	Elixir Gourd + Evergreen
Armor	SoulBinder Set
Face	Tribal Mask
Utility	Star + Spike Card
Accessories	2× Bronze Plugs
Card	Elder Wisp Purple
Artifact Set	Arcanum
Gems	Soul Strike + Thunder Bolt

Recommended item rolls:

• 3 AGI
• 2 MATK
• 2 HP

Pros:

• Excellent single-target DPS.

Cons:

• More fragile than Wolf.
• Harder to reach 193 ASPD.
• Locked to Wind element.

Advanced Wolf Build (Royal Fang Impale)

Approximately 800k DPS.

Equipment

Slot	Item
Head	Night Helm
Weapon	Royal Fang + 1× Elemental Card + 2× Fledging Cards
Off-Hand	Elixir Gourd + Vampiric or Evergreen
Armor	SoulBinder Set
Chest Card	Flexible
Legs Card	Sprout (Impale Damage)
Shoes Card	Razor Robot (Attack Speed)
Face	Tribal Mask + Spike Robot
Utility	Dualblade Sheath
Accessories	Speed Gauntlet + Skull Pendant
Artifact Set	Blitzcore or Eternis
Gems	Impale + Mass Heal

Recommended item rolls:

• 3 AGI
• 2 ATK
• 2 HP

Advantages:

• Higher survivability than Cat.
• Strong cleave and AoE damage.
• Can freely change element by swapping weapon.
• Blitzcore provides slightly higher DPS.
• Eternis provides better sustain.

This build is capable of:

• Solo farming Night Garden.
• Soloing bosses up to Imp difficulty with the appropriate elemental resistance.