Summon Familiar

Is Summon Familiar worth building around? Any good as an offensive companion? Asking because I hardly ever see it being used…which I guess is an answer in itself, but what is so bad about it?

http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38167&highlight=summon+familiar

The fact that almost anything they do other pets can do it better. Still my conjurer has 1 point on the first two of this skill’s nodes, just to have one more companion following you:undecided:

I feel this build will be fine but not because the “familiar” is good. It’s just geared correctly. It has one good skill - “lightning strike”. That’s it.

If I made roughly the same build but traded Occultist for Shaman I would have much stronger pets, much better AoE coverage and obviously more lightning based spells. Also a lot of lightning based legendaries have +1 to all skills for you guessed it - “Shaman”

Familiar isnt designed as good offensive pet. It has kickass heal and buff, that’s what it is good for.