[Question] Summoning

[Ruin]

According to the summoner description there's a 'limit' on the number of summons that can be registered to a single summoner. 

1. What exactly is that limit? 

2. Does that limit go up depending on quests/levels?

3. Also, can a summoner only summon one follower at a time?

[Haneroze]

Hello Ruin, welcome to Log Horizon~

From what I've previously heard, there is no "fixed" limit. Rather, keeping a summon on the field costs mana per second. Keeping two at once costs even more, and so on. Having multiple summons thus depletes your Mana extremely fast. Of course, as you level up, you also get more mana, but higher level summons also require more mana upkeep.

There is no fixed rule whatsoever about Mana thought, so one may think that depletes very fast, while another may believe the upkeep is small.

[Murasaki]

1/2. The limit is essentially the number of Summon skills that you can take. As people get to higher Tiers, it's going to be more important that you choose your summons wisely since the next skill will be quite a number of AP away. Basically it's flavor text. Don't worry about it too much, just know that you can only summon familiars that you have the respective skill for.

3. As Hane says, the level at which you can summon familiars is mainly dependent on your level and your contract's tier. Currently we don't have true numbers as long as you RP it reasonably, but here's my estimates:
- Level 1 using a Tier I summon: 20% MP drain per post per familiar
- Level 5 using Tier I: 15% MP per post per familiar
- Level 10 using Tier I: 10% MP per post per familiar
- Level 20 using Tier I: 5% MP per post per familiar
- Level 30 using Tier I: 2% MP per post per familiar
- Level 30 using Tier II: 10% MP per post per familiar

So if you have say 3 Slimes out at once at Level 1, your MP will drain really quickly.

Generally even in official events, we trust people not to abuse things, so don't rely too much on the numbers I posted here. Hope it helps though.

[Ruin]

Oooh, thank you!