Super nice job hexzyle at setting that chart that shows every gear in each of their catagory. I just took a look at it now and i have to congradulate you at a job well done.

Now unto the weapon variety, i feel a summoning sort of weapon is needed. i explained in my last post #10 how we can make this summoning effect look more technological and balance it out. Basically all the Summons would either have a time limit or a hit limit. Attacking summons would have a time limit while defensive summons will have a hit limit. After summoning a creature, it goes through a cool down phase, before another can be summoned. So for example, if i were to summon a mini tortodrone that would act as my shield, it would have a hit limit of 5. This means that the mini torto would not attack, but try it's best to get in the way of incoming attacks aimed at my knight. After 5 hits, it dies and I'm left defenseless. I. I were to summon a mini wolver, it would ha e a time limit of 1 to 2 minutes. This means it does not have health, just a time limit. It will attack any monsters near me, but if i stray too far it will automatically stop attacking and come to me. Once the time limit is done, it wil disapear. And to balance it out even further, large summons require a catalyst like an item that represent the monster that will be summoned. These catalyst need to be created using items found in the clockworks. This means basic summons would be summoned for free, while grand/catalyst summons require ammo to be summoned. This means even a 5 star summoning gear would still require ammo, but the summon would have more capabilities then a 3 star summoning gear.

Now lastly, a knight summoner would have a different kind of shield then normal knights. Summoners are considered in my opinion are between a support weapon like a bomb, to a long/mid range attacking weapon like a gun. So there shield would act differently. This shield would be more like the drakon skill 3 floating orbs that orbit the knight, but would not be used for attacking, but for hit counters. If that knight gets hit 3 times or less, there shield would break and leave them open for direct damage to their health. What makes this shield different from normal shields is that it can expand and contrast. This means that if it expands, it will cover a large area and protect that knight more easily. The minus of it's expanding ability is that it can only tale one hit. This means that depending on the situation is when the knight would use this ability to push back the monsters and clear the area. The area the knight can expand it to goes from the small area of the current shields to the area of a 3 star bomb At 3 star. And at 5 star, the knight can expand the shield to an area of a 5 star bomb. The more the knight expand the shield the less hits it can take. The orbs that represent the amount of hits can regenerate over time, but at a slower pace then normal knight shield. Now another cool thing about this shield is that the shield only protects against normal defense. The reason why this is cool is because depending on the defensive summons, the shield would be enhanced to match that defensive summons defensive statistics. This means if i summon a shadow defensive monster, my shield would auddenly have shadow defense. Or i. I summon a piercing defense monster, the shield would have piercing defense. the upside to this enhanced shield is that the shield defensive capabilities would increase from only 3 hits to be able handle more hits depending on that monsters capabilities. The downside to this ability is that once the defensive monster is dead, the shields enhanced abilities only last 30 seconds before disapearing. This means it's in that knight's best interest to keep that defensive monster alive. Another boost defensive summons give is unique charge damage capabilities. This means that the bash attack can be augmented to have any damage type that is split with normal damage and different status types. So a knight would be able to do split piercing with normal plus fire status on his charge if he wants to if he has the correct defensive summon. Lastly, defensive monsters can be mounted as a perk. (The mounted and shield i described can be optional features.)

The last type of monster a knight can summon is a supportive type of monster. These monsters are very much differrent then the other types of monsters because they actually have health. This means that they can stay for an indefinite amount of time on the field. Another reason why they are different is that they act more like cell phone towers where thet provide a certain area of coverage on the field. In this area is where they provide there supportive effects to the summoner and the rest of the team. Another thing that makes them different is that they have no loyalty like the other summons where they stick close to the player. They instead after being summoned in a spot, they start to wander around the place going where ever they like. This means these monsters are effective on some situations and some other times not effective. The upside to this is that the effects these supportive monster give can be any one of the sprite perks we get while at the same time giving any monster in that area an opposite effect of that sprite perk whether it aplies to them or not. Besides the sprite perk, when the monster is summoned, the summoner gets a dirrect armor augment effect to their armor even if that summoner is not in the area of effect of the support monster as long as that monster remains alive. This augment can be increase vita pod health boost, increase defense towards a certain damage type, defense increase towards a certain status type, ect. That about covers supporting summons. A total of 5 supportive monsters can be summoned at once, but they cannot be summoned near each others range. This means the knight can only summon another supportive type of monster outside of another supportive monsters range.

Now when it comes to the types of monsters the knight can summon, the gear already comes with predetermine basic summoned monsters. If a player wants to do an advance summon, then that player would have to use a catalyst. Some catalyst require the gear to have more stars, but a 5 star gear would be able to summon any monster in a catalyst. Some catalyst matchs more with certain summoning gear that focuses on a certain status ailment type like fire, ice ect. Monster catalyst that are summoned with these gear would get an extra capability. Like that mini tortodron example, the mini tortodrone summoned wouls have it's normal shell defensive capabilities but if it is summoned with a compatible gear, it would also be able to join the summoner in that tackle and extending the charge by a couple of meters and with more push back. Other defensive monsters can give status ailment on charge and other effects. Attacking monsters will gain one more extra attack capability like a turret monstrer would be able to shoot onr more attack variation of the normal bellet attack. These perks only activate on catalyst summoned monsters. Catalyst summoned monsters once summoned would stay active for one month like when a player activates a trinket. This means that for a whole month, the player would be able to summon that monster. Once the month is over, the catalyst item will break into 1 or 2 materials that was used in it's creation. This means a player can have more then one catalyst monster on hand to summon.

A knight can summon up to 3 total of monsters at once. These Monsters can be defensive or attacking. The only exception to this rule would be the supporting type monsters where the knight can summon up to 5 of them on the field at once. This adds up to a total of 8 monsters a knight can summon. Supportive monsters are in there own roster while defensive and attacking type of monsters are in there own roster. This way the amount of monsters summoned won't conflict the system. A knight can have 3 defensive or 3 attacking monsters on the field and a total of 5 supporting monsters. A standard gear comes with one attacking, one supportive, and one defensive basic summon. This way a knight can try all the different variations of summoned monsters to get a feel and experience in using all types.

The only attacking method a summoner knight can use is his monsters and shield bash. This means it is imperative that the knight has some back up items like vials and such for when the cooldown hits them on all 3 preset summoned monsters. Unless the knight has a catalyst to use that is not on cooldown, he will have to focus on dodging.

Now if a knight brings more then one summoning gear and switches to another Gear, all defensive or attacking monster currently out will be automatically desumoned, but there cooldown will remain. Supportive monsters will not be desummoned, but perks and boost gained from on defensive monster will not disapear for 30 seconds. This means if you were to summon another defensive monster with another summoning gear, you would not get the perks that comes with that new defensive monster till 30 seconds after the previos defensive monster's perks disapear.

Well that's all i have right now for summoned monster gear. What do you guys think?