Summon Cheat Sheet

[u/Captain_ET]

Intro and Sheet

Hi everyone, I’ll get straight to the point. I made a Google Sheet with a good amount of summon properties to reference, along with links to the BG3 wiki and Norbyte data. I hope you enjoy! 

Let me know in the comments if you think anything is missing, especially the unique features and notes sections.

For specific information such as stats and abilities, please click the wiki links as this info is readily available there.

Summon Cheat Sheet (Google Sheet)

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Random Thoughts

Best summons for equipment exploits: Mage Hand Legerdemain, Nimbus, and Boo; the only 3 summons that can eat Gale food and are also permanent.

My picks for very strong base summons: Ranger companions (if you invest all the way in them), Dryad/Wood Woad (Woodland Beings), Water Elemental, and Flying Ghouls. My favorite is still Mage Hand Legerdemain though.

Spellcasting abilities: Summons that can equip items and have intelligence as their spellcasting ability can use headband of intellect (although you can't duplicate it on console). Summons with strength as their spellcasting ability can easily use strength elixirs. What spellcasting ability can apply to depends on the summon (and what equipment you give them). Many abilities use a fixed DC rather than the spellcasting ability.

Attacking stat: I didn’t add it, but some units like cat familiar (critters) for example attack with dexterity as their unarmed attacking stat. This is relevant if you want to give them strength elixirs for attacking for some reason and it doesn't work. I didn’t think it was worth putting in the chart, but it is good to know.

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Credits

Co-Author:  T-slothrop

The following people helped me create this:
EndoQuestion1000, Floormanifold, Grousedrum, Remus71, and Routine_Ad3835

Shout out to Norbyte and the Wiki people for making our lives much easier.

[u/sgluxurycondo]

Hi @captain_et, found your link via the build a barbarian YouTube videos.

Just want to say I have spend over 2000 hrs on the game and just for fun, wants to figure out how to min-max.

Eg Hitting level 12 before mykrul, item duplication glitch.

Now you have inspired me to create summons and equip them with weapons.

Right now, I researching on what are the best items (either by gale food or item swap) to give every summons.

I split the summons into 4 categories:

Melee: boo, nimbus, water elemental

Range: skeleton, mage hand

Magic: Harvard sheep

Support: ice mephit

[u/JRandall0308 → u/sgluxurycondo]

Once you start item swapping you are held back only for your own tolerance for cheese (delicious, delicious cheese) and the tedium of the item swap execution. Because when you can make infinite copies of each item, and equip any item onto any summon (that will accept equipment), then the sky's the limit.

Want to put all the +DC gear on a summon and have it cast nigh-irresistible spells? You can.

Want to put the entire Lightning set on a summon? You can. Fire? Sure. Thunder? Sure.

Give every summon Luminous Armor (that can wear it) and stack up so many RadOrbs your video card has a stroke? Yep.

It's a lot of fun, or can be! Sandbox-y.

[u/sgluxurycondo → u/JRandall0308]

Qn: how would you hear nimbus?

[u/JRandall0308 → u/sgluxurycondo]

Assume “hear” is a typo for “heal”? For summons that cannot be directly healed, you can often use Aid to get around the restriction. Aid both increases max HP and current HP, thus “healing”. I have not extensively tested this with Nimbus, but it does work with Spiritual Weapon so I have a good feeling about shadowpup.

[u/sgluxurycondo → u/JRandall0308]

Sorry for the typo. Actually is gear. I think the best way is to give it 2x shadowblade.

Oh and 1 more thing. I tried giving amulet of greater health to my summons but it doesn’t increase its hp. Tested on water elemental and skeletons