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We have are in the middle/end of the first legacy of fire book. I was a 4th lvl wizard, but the DM allowed me to change over to a Summoner. I took special care not to optimize the eidolon.
Evolutions:
Bite
Trip
Slam
Reach( slam)
Push( bite )
Push( slam )
Increased Damage( Slam )
I, unfortunately, didn't keep detailed notes about each encounter, but I do remember the gist of them. I also was rolling horribly. 75% of my rolls were between 3 and 5.
The first combat took place against an ant lion. The Dwarven barbarian was in the lead and fell victim to its quicksand trap. The first couple of rounds were the ant lion grabbing the dwarf and the dwarf breaking free while we tried to get a rope down to him. Eventually we gave up as the dwarf kept dropping the rope when he would get grappled. I summoned an earth elemental on the other side of the ant lion and my eidolon jumped down into the hole to flank from the front. The cleric joined the eidolon and a big melee ensued. The eidolon failed to hit, but the earth elemental hit twice for about 20 dam total before disappearing. The cleric missed as well, but the bard hit with ranged attacks. The dwarven barbarian finally succeeded in not being grappled and attacked with his axe landing the killing blow. Final tally was that the eidolon did nothing but provide flank for the summon. The summon was what made the summoner useful( I also tried hitting it with a crossbow, but missed ).
The second fight was against 2 large spiders and 2 small spiders. I had sent my eidolon forward to scout, but he ended up with an 11 stealth( rolled a 3 ) and a 9 perception( rolled a 2 ) so he was surprised by the mass of spiders who attacked him. The eidolon did roll well for his fortitude saves against the poison, but was webbed in place. Everyone else ran into the room. As the fight progressed the Eidolon spent 4 rounds getting out of the web( dc 20 for the first 2 rounds he was at +9, and the last 2 +18 ). I summoned a drone ant who killed one of the small spiders and did damage to one of the large spiders. By the time the eidolon was able to help out the fight was over and he hadn't done anything but absorb hits( which is important, but not very satisfying ).
The 3rd encounter was against 2 sphinx constructs made of iron wood( hardness 8 ). I actually rolled well in this encounter and the eidolon tripped each sphinx and killed one of them almost on his own. I also summoned an elemental that went into the wall and could flank from behind.
The 4th encounter was against 3 chokers. The eidolon did decently managing to hit one of them with it's slam, doing enough damage to kill it. The rest of the party took care of the other 2( the eidolon tried to help, but kept missing ).
The 5th encounter was a little odd. The eidolon was again scouting and botched his rolls. he was attacked by a were leopard in the surprise round for 12 damage( the leopard was using a punch dagger... ). Everyone charged in after that. The area was odd in that it required people to make a fortitude save or gain the confused state. The summoner and the sorcerer did not pass and stayed confused for 4 or 5 rounds. The sorcerer rolled and was able to act for 2 or 3 of those rounds while the summoner just hit himself or babbled incoherently. The eidolon took 18 damage on round 2. During the rest of the fight the eidolon managed to hit once( he had 2 attacks a round at +8 and needed to hit ac 17 ). The summoner came out of his confusion in the round after the eidolon was critically bitten for 21 damage killing him( so he couldn't use life link ). He then cast haste on the party. The raging barbarian had to make a save and succeeded. The following round the creature was brought down.
All in all, my poor rolls prevent me from really being able to say much about the play test. Even when I was hitting I was doing about the same damage as the raging barbarian( if I hit with both attacks ). He was doing d12 + 10. I didn't feel like I stepped on anyones toes, though I was frustrated by my poor rolling.