The other day I was Partying w/ LS friends and while fighting we were duscussing skills. I mention that rasising your summoning skill SUCKS because at higher lvls it tends to skill up less and less(roughly an hour+ to gain one skill lvl @56).
Then one of my friends said that summon skill is pointless/stupid. Now me being a summoner and spent countless hours tryin to rasie my skill lvl, i got kind of annoyed.
The next day, i decided to do a little experiment while waiting to get an invite to xp. I went to Rolanberry Fields to fight crawlers (lol wanted to farm silks too). I took of my austre hat (Summoning skill +2) and my summoning earring (Summoning skill +3) and went to kill some crawlers
My skill w/o hat and earring was 138.
My skill w/ hat and earring was 143
I killed 6 crawlers w/o that gear and 6 w/ the gear. I added the damage and divided by the number of hits (to get and average of damage delt). And heres my results
The first 6-7 numbers are damage per hit, then the total damage, then divided by number of hits to end up with the average
1st 6 crawlers w/o hat and earring
crawler #1 112,120,120,116,105,108 = 681/6 = 113.5
crawler #2 115,109,109,115,104,118,113 = 783/7 = 111.85
crawler #3 107,106,118,101,106,113,117 = 768/7 = 109.71
crawler #4 120,106,110,106,120,120,110 = 792/7 = 113.14
crawler #5 120,120,116,108,120,120 = 704/6 = 117.33
crawler #6 120,120,113,120,107,118 = 698/6 = 116.33
2nd 6 crawlers w/ hat and earring (+5 skill)
crawler #1 120,115,120,120,114,120 = 709/6 = 118.16
crawler #2 108,120,118,117,120,120 = 703/6 = 117.16
crawler #3 115,120,108,114,119,118,115 = 809/7 = 115.57
crawler #4 118,115,120,115,114,120 = 702/6 = 117
crawler #5 112,120,120,106,117,120 = 695/6 = 115.83
crawler #6 107,112,110,114,112,118 = 673/6 = 112.16
If you actually look at the numbers you'll notice that w/o the hat and earring carby hit for under 110 over 10 times where as w/ hat and earring he hit under 110 about 3 times
If you actually look at the average damages you'll notice that w/o the hat and earring it is SLIGHTLY lower then w/ hat and earring on.
Now keep in mind that this is only a +5 skill differece so its not THAT different...but also keep in mind that my base skill is 138 and caps at 171 (lvl 56 summon skill cap i believe)
So while a +5 skill might not make a big difference, +33 (number of skills to cap @ lvl 56)will tend to be much more noticable.
So there you have it. IMO i believe Summoning skill IS important.
If you read this whole post i just want to thank you for taking the time and effort ^^