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• I took only r2 Vampirism/Life tap because it has 30s cooldown which is quite long and not worth spending 6 talent points on. I don't consider Life tap that important for damage but the instant 4 drops of blood can be useful in a lot of situations when you need blood fast. Most of my damage in pvp comes from Decomposition, Neurotoxin and Howl of death and Volatile infection in AOD.

• I do Neurotoxin on a few people and then focus one person. However doing dots on people might be tricky because if they have high determination there's a risk you'll just help them one shot you or your teammates. If you are up against someone who you know is dangerous for you and has high determination running it's best to ignore this person or just focus them down right away. This is especially important in Dominion champion fights, so much that it can decide the outcome of fight. But in most cases even if you don't aoe someone else will . I take rank3 Decomposition because it's used constantly.
  

• Volatile infection in AOD – the reason why summoners are usually top damage in Arena of Death! Throw this to middle of enemy raid and watch miracles happen . Rank 3 in pvp a must-have! Summoners can have huge mana problems in AOD though – Volatile infection is a mana eater, spamming dots on multiple people too – get away from fight sometimes if you can to regenerate mana.

• Have Dark renewal running on you at all times. It's a small heal but in the long run it can help a lot.
  

• Lurker has a silence cc – for this reason you should send her to bother magic classes, especially healers and other summoners.

• Summoning Mastery r3 here – because sometimes people like to kill our pet and we kind of need it for our stuff! Maybe rank2 could be enough though if you pay more attention to your pet than me but I'd not recommend it, especially since it can die quite easily with Dust to dust running.

• Phlebotomy in pvp – keep your eye on it. Do not let it hit you too much because you'll just make it easier for your enemies. You do not want to make it easier for your enemies, you want to do the opposite. Second reason to keep a close eye on this is because it automatically turns off at 35% hp and in pvp your hp will most likely bounce around a lot. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where it gets turned off and you don't notice until suddenly you have no drops of blood and a paladin with Pious Anger running in front of you!

• I take Necropotency only rank1. This can decrease cast time of Life tap and Dark renewal here. Life tap has 30s cd and Dark renewal only 1,5s cast time so usually I don't find rank1 to be a problem. I don't feel all that comfortable with it, I'd prefer rank2 at least but sacrifices had to be made.

• Another thing I don't feel comfortable with is Dark Gift only rank2 = 6% more stamina and faith instead of 9% on rank3 – but again, there's a lack of rubies and I figured this will not make a major difference anyway.
  

• And yet another thing I hate is Urgent protection only r1 usually – lack of rubies and I think with Blood aegis rubies it's not that bad. Besides, it slows down dispel of Blood aegis (the skill, not rubies) at least a little bit.

• I already talked about Dark spark rubies and Pandemia in my pve dps build and pretty much the same applies here too. In pvp I try to use Pandemia when Emblem of the Vicious/whatever other quality you have/ of Wizard is triggered because then it does really a LOT of damage.

• Use Howl of death on 7 stacks of Toxic weakness for maxed damage, especially on healing classes.

• The only reason the Eternal Hunger ruby is taken is to get to Phlebotomy rubies, I find bloodlust useless for summoner in pvp (since number of stats is limited and there's just better things).

• I do not take Seal of death rubies (vampirism ruby grid) because: 1. not enough rubies; 2. it seems like a bit of a work to manage it to its full potential - send Lurker to someone else so she doesn't spend stacks, then get enough stacks with Life tap (30s cd) and Howl of death... But I recognize it may have its uses when you need to kill a someone with heals (better burst).
  

• Use Dust to dust if you think you're about to get burst – paladin's Pious Anger, mage Elemental surge (Ghostly cover on cd) or mage burst in general, scouts etc. You may want to use this only when Impenetrable darkness is on cooldown so you don't waste both your protections at once, but this depends on type of burst (30% less damage on 60% hp will not save you if you get literally one shot).

• Ghostly cover – GREAT skill to get far away from fight or give yourself a break to heal up without any disturbance or interrupt enemy's burst.
  
  Some awesome uses:
  
  • It's possible to use Ghostly cover midair when a psionicist Mental pulse's you and this way you prevent its stun and you may live a few seconds longer up till... next Mental pulse . You need to have a good timing though!
  • I'm not sure if this is a bug or it works as intended but - psionicists also love to use Mindfire (cooldown on next 3 skills you use) but Ghostly cover removes all stacks although it makes it have 1min cooldown (40s original + Mindfire cd).
  • Run out of scout's Caltrops.
    
  • This skill is also a life saver against mages – when you see a mage around, try to keep Ghostly cover for Elemental surge if possible, it won't hurt you at all but annoy them!
    
  • Another thing is you can avoid warrior's or paladin's charge if you use it the second you see them starting charge. Again, it requires some distance and good timing. You can run away from them and kite.
    

• You shouldn't forget about Unstable antidote in pvp. Heals are our main defense but some classes – paladins, wardens and psionicists – have skills that can nerf them by whole 50% which is a lot. Paladins' and psionicists' heal nerf is easily purified by one Unstable antidote but the warden one stacks up to 5 – and yes, you have to purify every single stack and every purify resets it to its original duration. In short words – heal nerf with 5 stacks and maxed duration from a high runed warden is usually a nightmare.

• In skirmishes like Deserted farm, Witches hollow and Training camp don't be too selfish and heal some of your teammates when possible (or golem in TC), simple Plague of mending or one-two Reanimation can do a lot. If there's a lot of enemies and your teammates die, in the end you'll die as well.

• For Dominion I'd recommend taking more support (for example Advanced genetics rubies are great) and sacrifice damage. I think in champion fights summoner is supposed to be mainly support class – help healer keep people alive with strong and fast heals – rather than damage class. If your enemies have high determination you should do dots only on person who your party focuses and skip both Blood ties and Volatile infection completely if you're strictly told not to aoe.

Again, you can change your build depending on what you are going to do. For example, if you're 1vs1 it'd be worth taking Accelerated metabolism rubies (Wandering fever dot) and skip Blood ties. I have not tested this but Last service rubies (inflicts periodic damage to whoever kills your pet) might be worth taking if you use Dust to dust and let your pet die = more dots and you can just instantly summon your pet back. That's as long as your enemy doesn't see Dust to dust buff (or decides to hit you over it) or figures you out.

If you have less talent points,

• Wandering fever r1
  
• or Fear r2 shouldn't mess you up a lot since you also take rubies.
  

Sadly, it's a LOT worse with rubies – you could try taking some things lower rank, like less Virulence rubies, Impenetrable darkness rubies and drop Urgent protection completely, but... honestly just writing these stuff is breaking my heart.

Bottom line is... summoner is OP . And a huge fun in pvp. We can do damage and heal which makes me feel like I have a little bit control over what's going on. We are somewhat squishy – sure the heals are awesome but so many other classes have crazy bursts – paladins, scouts and psionicists especially – that if you get one shot or cc-ed and two shot, heals will not save you. That's why be mindful of players around you – although that's easier said than done... What's extremely important in pvp – experience, experience and once again, experience. So just go there and improve and see what suits you best!

• I always try to keep Blood Shot precast as usually it has a long cast time (unless Necropotency stacks present) in all situations except for when I know something needs to be purified really fast, in which case I precast Unstable antidote. Unstable antidote without any rubies has only a chance to purify 1 poison/disease effect but with Shadowy reach rubies it will turn into a good purify skill (as healers have) which is very important so these rubies are a must-have.

• Chain healing are very good rubies for pve – if you use Blood Shot you get a buff that lasts 4s, if you use Blood Shot again, it'll have less cast time and will be stronger but it increases mana cost and blood cost. This buff stacks up to 4 times and after it expires Blood Shot will get 10s cooldown (you also get this cooldown when the buff is on 4 stacks). This is awesome if tank is on low hp, it will heal him up easily even if there's wound complexity on him. But be careful – it drains mana a LOT. Do not use Blood Shot with these rubies unless you have to/your mana can afford it. It's best to use Blood shot only on tank while Dark renewal/Reanimation on damage dealers. Since Blood Shot is such a good save-situation heal, I take it r3 but you should be okay with rank 2 if you miss talent points.
  

• Because of Necropotency rubies (your dots have a % chance to give you stack that will decrease cast time of Blood Shot and Dark renewal by 20% per stack) you will want to do Decomposition/Neurotoxin on a few mobs at start of fight (if you can – if mobs are cc-ed, depending on what cc it is you may not be able to do this) so Dark renewal/Blood Shot are casted faster.

• I took Blood ties here but to be honest, I don't use it very much. As I said before it eats a lot of mana, a lot of blood and while the heal seems to be good, it requires people to be close (6 yards) and from my experience they are usually... spread miles away from each other. It might work pretty good if there's a lot of melee dps'ers in party stacked near each other at boss (or one melee + tank next to each other and both needing a heal) or if for some reasons some people are forced to group up on one spot.

• It's best to use Dark Vigor in combination with Art of Reanimation racial – the heal is faster and stronger.

• I took Pandemia r1 because I like the instant stun from Neurotoxin sometimes but otherwise it's pretty useless in this build. But I just love the skill a lot!

• Use Vampirism if you have low blood amount and need blood fast.

• Taking Neurotoxin + Withering touch rubies can be a good thing too as you will not need to keep an eye on Putrefy/Decomposition so much but it's not needed at all.

• you probably won't need Wandering fever rank3, r1-2 is good enough,
• or skip Pandemia completely, it's not needed,
  
• or Volatile infection on rank1 is enough too.
  

This is the end of the guide, hope it helped some of you . Summoner is an awesome and strong class and a most importantly: a lot of fun. But what you need to do, not just with summoner, but with any class: having a build is not enough, you have to go and practice it for yourself and see what works best for you and your party. And if you have greatness it's a good idea to have both dps and a full healer/good offheal build at hand because you never know what debuffs you'll get and some of them are pretty annoying!
Good luck and see you in game!

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