Velium Hunter Summoned Me

[hagglebaby]

I've killed maybe 6 of these before while camping Brood mother. I hadn't been summoned by them once. Must have gotten a high level one, it summoned me repeatedly and killed me. Wiki doesn't have summoning as a special ability. I guess I need to stay out of LOS?

I also haven't gotten a brood mother pop so i guess it's good practice

[Videri]

Unfortunately, line of sight won't protect you from being summoned.
Yes, you must have gotten a higher-level one. NPCs level 50 and up generally summon (it's kind of exceptional when they don't).
What class are you?

[hagglebaby]

Enchanter. Lvl 60 undinged to 59. Didn’t have too much Trouble soloing the camp at 59 but I never got a named pop and apparently I never fought a velium hunter this high either

[hagglebaby]

I had a charmed pet on the mob but I slowed him twice and kept chain rooting him and refreshing my root. Maybe I got aggro that way

[Vivitron]

I had a charmed pet on the mob but I slowed him twice and kept chain rooting him and refreshing my root. Maybe I got aggro that way

Could be; root is significant aggro since the December 2022 patch.

[Andyman1022]

Velium Hunters always summon

[PatChapp]

In between summons you can toss a blur on the mob and get agro back on your pet. If your getting lots of slow resists you will be very high agro

[Jimjam]

Wasn’t it classic for NPCs to ignore pets when choosing what to summon?

[Rygar]

Wasn’t it classic for NPCs to ignore pets when choosing what to summon?

Death touch for sure. I don't know about summoning. I vaguely recall people posting logs of "LOL he was mad and summoned my pet", but may be a bad memory

[hagglebaby]

In between summons you can toss a blur on the mob and get agro back on your pet. If your getting lots of slow resists you will be very high agro

Is blanket of forgetfulness the best spell in this situation? I’ve been using it for the consistent mem blurs it gives me

[hagglebaby]

Velium Hunters always summon

Yea the first 6ish Velium hunters that I killed, I wasn’t summoned once. I also didn’t root. I would just slow and then keep rune and bedlam memmed for when charm broke. When a charm broke, I would color stun, color stun, mezmerization, allure, re-bedlam, re-rune.

I would be using a minimum of 1 rune per battle. I figured if I started rooting, I could take less damage and waste less runes. It was working really well until my first velium hunter which summoned me like 5 times.

[PatChapp]

Yeah blanket is the strongest memblur as I understand it. Seems to be that way in my experience at least.

[spoil]

I think memory flux is stronger but it costs 350 mana.

And if you want to save on runes use color shift/slant as your primary stun as it's a half-second quicker cast time than skew.

[hagglebaby]

I think memory flux is stronger but it costs 350 mana.

And if you want to save on runes use color shift/slant as your primary stun as it's a half-second quicker cast time than skew.

Yea I don’t even have skew or the other one. I go color flux 1s cast time -> color shift 1.5s cast time

[hagglebaby]

I’m doing much better not getting summoned by the velium hunters. Unless charm breaks, I get insta summoned to a location in between my hasted rogue pet and a velium hunter. Nasty place to be. It happened once so far and I got off a color flux, color shift, mezmirization, but they tore through my bedlam and rune V and almost killed me. Not quite sure what to do about that situation besides repet after every battle and pray I don’t get breaks against velium hunters

[PatChapp]

You did everything you can, keep rune and bedlam up and fresh to give the highest odds of not dieing.
If your pets a rogue,face him as often as you can. When you get summoned you face the same direction you were,so at least you don't get backstabbed.

[spoil]

Stand closer to the mob and you won't be summoned, like position yourself just a bit behind your pet.

I would also really recommend getting color skew, flux is only a 4-second stun and that doesn't buy you the time to cast much besides your longer-duration stun.

[Infectious]

Stand as close to pet without taking damage from mob. On break you willnt be summoned. Set toggle target to a hot key.

On a break... 1 second stun, 8 second stun and then mez both tagets. The 8 second stun gives enough time to lvl 4 mez both targets. Recharm pet, mem blur target and go back to work.

[hagglebaby]

On a break... 1 second stun, 8 second stun and then mez both tagets. The 8 second stun gives enough time to lvl 4 mez both targets. Recharm pet, mem blur target and go back to work.

This is better than mezmerization because it saves mana? Also, what memblur are you using? I’ve just been spamming mezmerization and then conning to see if it blurred them.

[spoil]

What are you going to do on a break against brood master/mother? You gotta be able to take a couple hits from a slowed mob. Your pet will get aggro in a few seconds.

[Toxigen]

Is blanket of forgetfulness the best spell in this situation? I’ve been using it for the consistent mem blurs it gives me

yeah - blanket was always my go-to blur

theres another one that acts like a dot sort of....reoccurring amnesia or something like that?

i havent played in forever so dont know if that ones working as intended or not but we never used it years ago think it was broken