Phantom Summoner's servitors


Author — NeophronPK, Masterwork player

Basics

Non-obvious information about Phantom Summoner's shadows and their usage on MasterWork. Just useful facts, no flood.

All the shadows are universal and have equal Accuracy, Evasion, Critical and Atk.Speed, but have a notable difference in HP, P.Atk, P.Def, M.Def and Speed. Also, each shadow has unique features, which set the main vector of usage of the servant.

Note: servants stats, shown below, presented with all standard buffs, rhythms and self buffs Spirit Sharing Spirit Sharing Lv. 1 and Final Servitor Final Servitor Lv. 1 , that are an example of the average buff in reality of MasterWork, excluding Servitor Share Servitor Share Lv. 1 , since the stats, transferred from the master, depends on his equipment.


Shadow

summon Shadow l2
summon Shadow l2

Minuses:

  • Speed of that shadow the lowest among all, even lower than the shadow magician Silhouette, which means she is extremely ineffective in PVP
  • Highest consumption of Beast Soulshot Beast Soulshot NG among all shadows

Pluses:

Note:

Use Shadow as solo-PVE sevitor in agressive location with strong monsters, where any other shadow can't survive and requires constant healing. Try not to use this shadow, unless there are reasons for this.


Soulless

summon Soulless l2
summon Soulless l2

Minuses:

If your character is out of shadow's cast range, Soulless will ignore any commands and move to master to cast Contract Payment Contract Payment Lv. 1 , even during PVP.

MP can't be called significant (3-5.4 MP), rather Contract Payment Contract Payment Lv. 1 simply neutralizes your natural MP regen. In a situation where you are forced to spend MP this can be a negative factor. However, the debuff can be removed by Smart Cubic.

Pluses:

  • High physical damage. P.Atk. equal to Shadow, and higher than any other summon
  • High magical damage
  • Speed of this servitor is the highest

Note:

Use Soulless as solo-PVE servitor only if it doesn't lack of HP and you don't have to use your MP for something else.

Soulless has same P.Atk as Shadow, but uses less Beast Soulshot Beast Soulshot NG and moves faster from one monster to another.

Use Soulless as PVP servitor, if you are not playing the role of semi-support.


Silhouette

summon Silhouette l2
summon Silhouette l2

Minuses:

  • Low mobility. Almost lowest Speed among other servitors, below only Shadow. That makes this servitor less effective in most, but not at all PVP-scenarios
  • Low damage. Practically lowest P.Atk. among other shadows, below only Nightshade. This makes this servitor absolutely ineffective in PVE

Pluses:

Note:

Among all shadows only Silhouette have attacking nuke, which, considering high M.Atk, causes significant damage to the enemy and is a good way to effectively counter mobile and «kiting» characters (Soul Breaker, Arbalester, Hawkeye etc.). Everytime they come closer to hit, and move back later, double hit them by yourself and Silhouette


Nightshade

summon Nightshade l2
summon Nightshade l2

Minuses:

  • Lowest damage. P.Atk. is lower, then any other shadows have

Pluses:

Note:


Spectral Lord

summon Spectral Lord l2
summon Spectral Lord l2

Pluses:

Notes:

This servant did not participate in comparisons with other shadows, because he is a servant of Spectral Master, not the Phantom Summoner, and there will be no intrigue in that.

Actually, Spectral Lord is the quintessence of the advantages of all shadows and is devoid of any weaknesses. He's almost as fast as Soulless and almost as durable as Nightshade, but Spectral Lord in a significant gap from all the shadows P.Atk., making it an undeniable favorite for any solo-PVE content and many solo-PVP scenarios.

Author — NeophronPK, Masterwork player


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