I think this is a good addition to the game!
The "summoning" is not even close to actual summoning. It's a cool fancy way of doing a DoT AoE. Cast spell that causes an undead to pop up and deal damage for a set time, it's not like itll follow you around 24/7 nor requires special items to maintain. I'm looking forward to that potential spell.
I think there is a lot of fear surrounding corruption from the pvp community as it introduces another way to attack players prayer points outside of Smite. It could potentially change the pop meta and could have players switch over from ancient magicks. TBH itd be cool to see another spell book used in combat. Heck, even lunar has some use with vengeance. Also the grasp binds dont fit purely in dps but rather a slight damage bind which also could help change the pvp meta.
I dont see the need to include direct damage spells, since we have other books that play to that crowd. The arceus should have a good focus on buff, debuff, and dot (prayer and hp)
I really hope that this change pulls through, as just reanimation with some decent teles (dont get rid of lumby tele plz) makes the book a laughing joke to magic users. I'm pumped for the potential increase in utility of the book as I hope I'll be able to replace my go to standard book for this one.
Keep up the hard work Jagex, cant wait to see OSRS become the biggest MMO ever!!
20-Dec-2020 18:35:56