For those that have play tested a summoner, Is the Augment Summoning worth it? Its two feats and you can only have one of your SLA's up at a time. I know its +2 hit & +2 dmg, and a few hit points but i feel the feats could be better spent somewhere else.
For those that have play tested a summoner, Is the Augment Summoning worth it? Its two feats and you can only have one of your SLA's up at a time. I know its +2 hit & +2 dmg, and a few hit points but i feel the feats could be better spent somewhere else.
Yes.
You may have only one of your SLAs up at a time but you can spam freely with any SMonster spells.
For those that have play tested a summoner, Is the Augment Summoning worth it? Its two feats and you can only have one of your SLA's up at a time. I know its +2 hit & +2 dmg, and a few hit points but i feel the feats could be better spent somewhere else.
i'm playing one and I'd say yes. A large part of the utility is the standard action summon, and the extra hp has helped out a lot.
My DM also let me take imbue summon as the monster feats (3/day) which is great, except for my poor spell slots. My biggest complaint is lackluster 4th level spells so far.
For those that have play tested a summoner, Is the Augment Summoning worth it? Its two feats and you can only have one of your SLA's up at a time. I know its +2 hit & +2 dmg, and a few hit points but i feel the feats could be better spent somewhere else.
I actually saw direct evidence of this in a playtest. I had a summoner and a conjurer in a playtest game i ran. The summoner had augment summoning, the conjurer did not. They both ended up summoning the same monsters twice, the summoner's performed MUCH better. You would be surprised how much that +2 to hit made a difference. And while you can only have one sla up at a time, you will likely have one in every fight. Something that gives you +2 to anything you do ALL THE TIME, is worth it. Plus you have a least a couple good conjuration spells that benefit from spell focus conjuration, that can make that part of it less painful.
So, I went with halfling Summoner---Story is he comes from a group whose rage manifests into a real creature. I went with the Biped power attack, bite, improved damage claws, reach. thought about doing 2 summoner levels to every 1 barbarian for fluff.
Summoner/ high str and chr/ dex and con next. What combat feat should I take.
How about Mounted Combat? You can ride your eidolon around, and potentially negate one attack against it per round. You might switch the eidolon to quadruped form, but I don't think there's any rule that says you can't ride it in biped form, MasterBlaster style.
I agree that Augment Summoning is certainly worth it. The con bonus adds quite a lot to their use as meat shields.
Glitterdust, Stinking Cloud, Cloudkill.
Of these, I see Glitterdust being the easiest one to get into your spells known, the others are competing with, at their levels, some significant competition.