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So I will lower the str I do agree it's a little high but I was using the other birds as a base to dictate the stats but I do understand the concern. This is also for a druid, I mentioned ranger just because it's more my normal selection. For physical stat increase at 7 I'll add Dex or switch it to go small then medium start with Ravens base. Side note the reason I'm doing this is while there are like 100 choices some are notoriously better than others big cat, Trex, raptor Dino, and the rhino/elephant things; also side bar there are like 30 Dino's, 10 rhino/elephants so really do I have 100 choices or 40 cuz the duplicates are unreal.

So I have played rangers before and I am tired of nearly always running one of 3 or 4 animal companions and really want another viable choice so I began to modify the Giant Raven for a Druid to be both more realistic and maybe a bit more comparable to the main powerhouse animals. Here is what I have so far:

Size: Medium
STR: 14 Dex: 15 Con: 14 Int: 2 Wis: 15 Cha: 9
(I keep the main stats as most of the companions keep the base stats)
Natural AC +1 Speed: 20ft/50ft(Average) Attack: Bite(1d6)
Special Abilities: Scavenger, Low-Light Vision, and Problem Solver
(Problem Solver is on the Switchback Jackal basically it gives a light Disable Device vs traps DC 20 and lower, and also lets them learn one more trick than their Int allows which biologically fits the ravens quite well.)

I moved the advancement to the 7th-Level because it makes the ideas I have a bit easier to swallow balance wise.

Size: Medium (A large raven becomes cumbersome for what I have planned)
STR: +0 Dex: +2 Con: +0 Int: +2 Wis: +0 Cha:+1
(Ravens are extremely smart and adding Int to an animal allows it to do allot but if I follow -http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lc1y- it still allows the raven to boost its Int which in real life is around that of a 4 or 5 year old human while keeping him a companion unlike Awaken. The Cha bonus allows it to break even to add a little oomph to intimidation checks for reasons later shown)
Attack: Bite(1d6) (No size bonus no damage increase)
Special Abilities: Improved Problem Solver (Raven gets Disable Device) and Speech (Similar to several other birds real life ravens can talk, and with an Int of 4 it would be one of if not the only animal companion to speak granted it would do so sparingly and poorly)

To me it doesn't seem too crazy or broken it could use more feat but I think utility wise it is a huge improvement. I dont think it has the combat potential of the striker animals most use but does add some nice flavor. What are your guy's opinion?