Summon Dragon - Revision history

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Ge0ff: bump version

2022-06-22T20:08:25Z

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Ge0ff: Add some info about what dragons/how many can be summoned; un-stub

2020-02-25T18:17:14Z

Add some info about what dragons/how many can be summoned; un-stub

Spudwalt: Noticed this spell is still a thing that the Serpent of Hell can do -- needs better information on what dragons/how many can be summoned

2019-12-03T05:47:10Z

Noticed this spell is still a thing that the Serpent of Hell can do -- needs better information on what dragons/how many can be summoned

Spudwalt: obsoleted

2014-09-06T03:05:26Z

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CommanderC: Updated for 0.13

2013-10-30T14:56:18Z

Updated for 0.13

MoogleDan: Updated for 0.12

2013-05-10T12:48:54Z

Updated for 0.12

Lokkij: Added tiles images

2013-05-10T12:38:39Z

Added tiles images

Ion frigate: 1 revision: attempting to import spells

2012-12-21T04:10:09Z

1 revision: attempting to import spells

CommanderC: Noises.

2012-08-07T13:17:31Z

Noises.

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{{Spell
|name=Summon Dragon
|level=9
|school1={{Summonings}}
|school2=
|school3=
|sources=<div>
* [[Book of the Dragon]]
</div>
|castingnoise=7
|spellnoise=0
}}
{{Flavour|This spell summons and binds a powerful dragon to perform the caster's bidding.}}

[[Summon Dragon]] is a level 9 [[Summonings]] spell which summons one or (rarely) two dragons to fight for you. Possible summons include:
*{{Green|D}} [[Dragon]]
*{{White|D}} [[Ice dragon]]
*{{LightBlue|D}} [[Storm dragon]]
*{{Magenta|D}} [[Shadow dragon]]
*{{Cyan|D}} [[Iron dragon]]
*{{LightCyan|D}} [[Quicksilver dragon]]
*{{Yellow|D}} [[Golden dragon]]

==Strategy==
At first glance, this spell doesn't seem very useful. By the time you can cast it reliably, most dragons are not a serious threat to you. However, it has several strong points. While the earlier dragons you can acquire aren't terribly impressive, the iron, quicksilver, and golden dragons you receive at high [[spell power]] are quite powerful, and even fire and ice dragons can be useful when you summon two at once. The spell's summoning duration is very long, even without full power, so you can summon an army and channel back the MP before a fight instead of wasting time or being at less than full power during the fight.

While you aren't sure exactly what you're going to get out of the spell, dragons are not without their strengths. They are durable enough to soak [[hellfire]] and other late game threats, and come with innate resistances. They have ranged breath weapons, trample in melee, and are (mostly) flying and mobile enough to keep up with you.

As a Summonings spell, followers of [[Vehumet]] will be able to cast it at lower skill levels than you'd expect for a level 9 spell, and it's significantly safer than several other powerful Summonings ([[Haunt]], [[Summon Horrible Things]], [[Summon Greater Demon]]): it causes no side effects (sickness, stat drain), it doesn't upset the good [[god]]s (neither chaotic nor demonic), the dragons are never hostile and will not turn on you, and it's relatively easy to find.

On the downside, the spell only summons one or two dragons at a time and it does not use smite targeting. This can make it hard to set up a meat shield on demand. Also, a group of [[Summon Horrible Things|6 large abominations]] can likely dish out more raw melee damage per turn than one dragon.

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 {{Flavour|Summons and binds a powerful dragon to perform the caster's bidding. At high power it may summon particularly deadly varieties of dragon, or multiple lesser dragons at once.}}
-'''Summon Dragon''' summons a dragon. Dragon type depends on power and random chance, with two fire or ice dragons possible at high power<ref>{{source ref|0.28.0|spl-summoning.cc|462}}</ref>. Possible summons include:
+'''Summon Dragon''' summons a dragon. Dragon type depends on power and random chance, with two fire or ice dragons possible at high power<ref>{{source ref|0.31.0|spl-summoning.cc|536}}</ref>. Possible summons include:
 *{{monsterlink|Fire dragon}}
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 ==History==
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-Summon Dragon used to be a player spell, but was replaced with [[Dragon's Call]] in [[0.14]]. It allowed you to summon dragons, with the strength and number of dragons increasing with spellpower.
+*Summon Dragon used to be a player spell, but was replaced with [[Dragon's Call]] in [[0.14]]. It allowed you to summon dragons, with the strength and number of dragons increasing with spellpower.
 ==References==

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 {{Flavour|Summons and binds a powerful dragon to perform the caster's bidding. At high power it may summon particularly deadly varieties of dragon, or multiple lesser dragons at once.}}
-'''Summon Dragon''' summons a dragon. Dragon type depends on power and random chance, with two fire or ice dragons possible at high power<ref>{{source ref|0.24.0|spl-summoning.cc|559}}</ref>. Possible summons include:
+'''Summon Dragon''' summons a dragon. Dragon type depends on power and random chance, with two fire or ice dragons possible at high power<ref>{{source ref|0.28.0|spl-summoning.cc|462}}</ref>. Possible summons include:
-{{monsterlink|Fire dragon}}
+*{{monsterlink|Fire dragon}}
+*{{monsterlink|Ice dragon}}
-{{monsterlink|Ice dragon}}
+*{{monsterlink|Storm dragon}}
+*{{monsterlink|Shadow dragon}}
-{{monsterlink|Storm dragon}}
+*{{monsterlink|Iron dragon}}
+*{{monsterlink|Quicksilver dragon}}
-{{monsterlink|Shadow dragon}}
+*{{monsterlink|Golden dragon}}
 {{monsters with spell}}

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 {{Flavour|Summons and binds a powerful dragon to perform the caster's bidding. At high power it may summon particularly deadly varieties of dragon, or multiple lesser dragons at once.}}
-'''Summon Dragon''' summons a dragon. Possible summons include:
+'''Summon Dragon''' summons a dragon. Dragon type depends on power and random chance, with two fire or ice dragons possible at high power<ref>{{source ref|0.24.0|spl-summoning.cc|559}}</ref>. Possible summons include:
 {{monsterlink|Fire dragon}}
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 }}
 Summon Dragon used to be a player spell, but was replaced with [[Dragon's Call]] in [[0.14]]. It allowed you to summon dragons, with the strength and number of dragons increasing with spellpower.
 [[Category:Monster spells]]

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-{{Flavour|This spell summons and binds a powerful dragon to perform the caster's bidding.<br>You can sustain at most two creatures summoned by this spell.}}
+Summon Dragon used to be a player spell, but was replaced with [[Dragon's Call]] in [[0.14]]. It allowed you to summon dragons, with the strength and number of dragons increasing with spellpower.
-[[Category:Obsolete spells]]
+[[Category:Monster spells]]

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 On the downside, the spell only summons one or two dragons at a time and it does not use smite targeting. This can make it hard to set up a meat shield on demand. Also, a group of [[Summon Horrible Things|6 large abominations]] can likely dish out more raw melee damage per turn than one dragon.

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-{{Flavour|This spell summons and binds a powerful dragon to perform the caster's bidding.}}
+{{Flavour|This spell summons and binds a powerful dragon to perform the caster's bidding.<br>You can sustain at most two creatures summoned by this spell.}}
 [[Summon Dragon]] is a level 9 [[Summonings]] spell which summons one or (rarely) two [[list of dragons|dragon]]s to fight for you. Possible summons include:
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 *[[File:Quicksilver dragon.png]]{{LightCyan|D}} [[Quicksilver dragon]]
 *[[File:Golden dragon.png]]{{Yellow|D}} [[Golden dragon]]
 ==Strategy==

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 {{Spell
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 {{Flavour|This spell summons and binds a powerful dragon to perform the caster's bidding.}}
-[[Summon Dragon]] is a level 9 [[Summonings]] spell which summons one or (rarely) two dragons to fight for you. Possible summons include:
+[[Summon Dragon]] is a level 9 [[Summonings]] spell which summons one or (rarely) two [[list of dragons|dragon]]s to fight for you. Possible summons include:
 *[[File:Dragon.png]]{{Green|D}} [[Dragon]]
 *[[File:Ice dragon.png]]{{White|D}} [[Ice dragon]]
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 While you aren't sure exactly what you're going to get out of the spell, dragons are not without their strengths. They are durable enough to soak [[hellfire]] and other late game threats, and come with innate resistances. They have ranged breath weapons, trample in melee, and are (mostly) flying and mobile enough to keep up with you.
-As a Summonings spell, followers of [[Vehumet]] will be able to cast it at lower skill levels than you'd expect for a level 9 spell, and it's significantly safer than several other powerful Summonings ([[Haunt]], [[Summon Horrible Things]], [[Summon Greater Demon]]): it causes no side effects (sickness, stat drain), it doesn't upset the good [[god]]s (neither chaotic nor demonic), the dragons are never hostile and will not turn on you, and it's relatively easy to find.
+It's significantly safer than several other powerful Summonings ([[Haunt]], [[Summon Horrible Things]], [[Summon Greater Demon]]): it causes no side effects (sickness, stat drain), it doesn't upset the good [[god]]s (neither chaotic nor demonic), the dragons are never hostile and will not turn on you, and it's relatively easy to find.
 On the downside, the spell only summons one or two dragons at a time and it does not use smite targeting. This can make it hard to set up a meat shield on demand. Also, a group of [[Summon Horrible Things|6 large abominations]] can likely dish out more raw melee damage per turn than one dragon.

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 [[Summon Dragon]] is a level 9 [[Summonings]] spell which summons one or (rarely) two dragons to fight for you. Possible summons include:
-*{{Green|D}} [[Dragon]]
+*[[File:Dragon.png]]{{Green|D}} [[Dragon]]
-*{{White|D}} [[Ice dragon]]
+*[[File:Ice dragon.png]]{{White|D}} [[Ice dragon]]
-*{{LightBlue|D}} [[Storm dragon]]
+*[[File:Storm dragon.png]]{{LightBlue|D}} [[Storm dragon]]
-*{{Magenta|D}} [[Shadow dragon]]
+*[[File:Shadow dragon.png]]{{Magenta|D}} [[Shadow dragon]]
-*{{Cyan|D}} [[Iron dragon]]
+*[[File:Iron dragon.png]]{{Cyan|D}} [[Iron dragon]]
-*{{LightCyan|D}} [[Quicksilver dragon]]
+*[[File:Quicksilver dragon.png]]{{LightCyan|D}} [[Quicksilver dragon]]
-*{{Yellow|D}} [[Golden dragon]]
+*[[File:Golden dragon.png]]{{Yellow|D}} [[Golden dragon]]
 ==Strategy==

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