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What would the best archetype be for a primary focused Blaster druid?
Stormlord? mooncaller? Base druid? Tempest druid?
my stats are-(rolled, and boy, did I roll)
Pre race modifier
Str: 16
Dex: 16
Con: 14
Int: 12
Wis: 18
Cha: 09
I know I will be good at just about whatever I want here... but.. lets focus on the "caster" part.
summoning/blasting and some shape-shifting every so often for fun.
The only dislike I see with the storm druid is they trade away A thousand faces.
downside is that your flurries won't work with wildshape. Upside is, you can actually yell out some phrases like "MY tiger style is superior to yours!" and do some mock-lip synching like badly dubbed kung-fu movies.
Actually, Feral Combat Training allows a monk yo use a specific weapon (probably claws) to flurry along with anything else that affects or augments unarmed strikes, including increased damage.
In all honesty, druid buffs are stupendously powerful, and thrown onto a monk, you can really stack up your ac and damage bursts, particularly when you can soak up your MAD problem with owlswisdom/cat's grace/bullstrength. Barkskin for ac, then pick and choose some of those other ridiculous buffs they get. Difficult to bring it all out into the fore, but nonetheless, very strong. This still leaves 90% of your spells for blasting away.
Stormlord seems like a fair pick. Thousand faces is alright, but alter self is a pretty low level spell: you could always access it through gear or potions, unless you plan to change faces all the time.
The tempest may be more to your liking if you tend toward lighting spells - particularly those line-based bolts. At level 9, being able to fudge with the spell as an immediate action ( let it hit guy A then alter it 5 feet to the right to hit guys B and C) is kind of handy, but not earth shattering. You could also use it as a sort of minor version of spellshaping: you can exclude a square where an ally/innocent/petunia is standing, and smash the rest of the area with a lightning call.
Most importantly at the lower levels though , you can combine your level 1 obscuring mist spells with eyes of the storm. Dropping mists around you, while you stay in cover from all ranged targeting, is a big boon.
also tempest replaces all those things you mentioned, well, most at least.
P.s. good lookin up, on that feral combat training, never even noticed that. Brings back some builds I've missed since 3.5
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ok, so this is what I have... (its a high powered homebrew)
- Druid, either Storm 0r Tempest or Menhir savant archetypes and Monk (????)
Plumekith aasimar
Stats-
Str: 16
Dex: 18
con: 14
Int: 12
Wis: 20
Cha: 09
I can take a +2 in any ability score in place of my SLA (see invisibility 1/day) without rolling. do I take an 18 str? 20 dex? 22 wis???
no Idea what monk archtype to take, if any,
Ideas for level 5-10 is to stay in a beneficial wildshape, ranging from large-tiny animals, or elemental depending on mood. Though possibly elemental more often due to the nature of the homebrew.
Personally, if you want to be a spell-slinging druid I'd take the 22 WIS and laugh at anyone that tries to avoid your spells.
Why take Weapon Finesse? Lord, no. You have 16 STR already; just use your STR. You'd be trading a feat for an effective +1 attack bonus. Not worth it.
WIS gives you +1 AC, +more spells, +will save, +stunning fist DC if you use stunning fist, +spell save DC increase... Yeah. It's good. Bump it up.
I like the nature fang for caster druids. Increases the save dc via studied target. But it trades away wildshape so I guess it's no option for you.