Fire Imp Summons

[illunic]

I've noticed that my fire imps skill will sometimes only summon 2 imps instead of the 3 it says.  It does not happen all the time. Im not sure what the cause of it is, but I do notice when it summons 3 the third imp will take a little longer to pop up then the first two.

 

Edit: After asking around this seems to be an old known issue and apparently its a Dom only thing, where they don't always get the third imp because reasons.  Honestly it would not be that bad if i could just recast and get the third one but that's now how it works, if you summon two and then get unlock and summon two again it just resummons the 2 you had out instead of giving you the third one.

[Zep]

If you despawn the imps does it help when you resummon?

[illunic]

Yeah I have tried both manually right click dismissing all of them in the pet window and using the /release_pets command as well and still only summon 2 most of the time. 

 

Last night, I the problem seemed to be out for me, I only summoned 2 the first time and the following few recasts only resulted in the 2 I had being replaced by the fresh 2 I had just summoned.  Took several times before I finally got the legendary third imp to appear.

 

Some lazy digging shows that dom's only have a 60% chance to summon the third imp, not sure how accurate old tomax numbers are but certainly feels like it is still there:

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20140821055810/http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/powers/power.php?id=Dominator_Control.Fire_Control.Fire_Imps

 

No mention of the chance to only get 2 in the skill description or in the detailed info. I don't suppose it would be open to change, It would be nice to not have RNG when dealing with pet summons.

[Zep]

I remember back when Imps got 2-5 not just a set 3 for controllers.

 

It is hard to know if it is a deliberate balance choice made by the original Devs or a hold over from the random days not meant to be still in the code.