Not really the best way to do things as a Summoner.
Seriously unless you are a Master Summoner you can only have one Summon Monster SLA in effect at a time.
The stack of usable Spells is also not that "monstrous".
Counterspelling is never a real issue.
Everybody can wear heavy armor if he wants to,... the question is if he actually gets something out of it
Multiclassing as a Summoner? Also not a wise choice,there are better ways to boost your initiative.
Fazit:It really doesn´t compare to an Eidolon and buffing it up.
Is your character a master summoner? (If not I would suggest you do)
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exile and reactionary traits +4 total to init
Traits don't stack. You take higher as same type bonus.
People always seem to say things are broken when they forget the rules, wierd.
Also, unless you take the Master Summoner or whichever archetype it is that allows you to have both your Eidolon out and use your Summon Monster ability, you get one or the other. The same archetype makes your eidolon progress at a slower rate. So yeah, not quite the build you think.
Oooh dumping Con eh?
Which poisons lower Con again? I'd have to ask my ninja player.
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I think the moral of the story here is "never make threads claiming 'I just discovered that x class is better than every other class,'" because people are going to tear you apart for it.
Sweet build though. And I think he/she meant that you could potentially have 3 monsters out by using the lower level summons once you get access to II & beyond. Still, Master Summoner would clearly be an improvement on that.
1. The summon monster ability can only produce one spell's worth of creatures at a time. The rest will have to be summoned via the spell if you want them to be active at the same time. If you take the Master Summoner archetype, though, all bets are off.
2. The diviner abilities are nice. But they're nice for a lot of builds, not just the summoner.
3. No matter how many monsters you summon, they can still take you out directly via ranged attacks and spells. Soft cover is soft.
4. LOL armor.
5. Your description of the high-level summoner makes it sound OP. I refer you to the hundreds of high-level builds posted on this site's forums to show exactly how easy it is to take down a high level summoner, particularly through ranged attacks, blast spells, teleportation, time stop, and so on. Not to mention simple spells like banishment. You can usually summon more than they can banish, but it'll eat through your reserves. It's powerful, but at best on par with a high level full-casty.
Oooh dumping Con eh?
Which poisons lower Con again? I'd have to ask my ninja player.
Ha, I missed that part. And the answer is "a lot of them". Alternately, poison Str or Wis until he's immobile.
Also, 7 Wis? Hope you're pumping Will save some other way. You're one dominate person away from having to fight your own army.
What are his base stats?
Str 9-2 racial = 7 [-1 point]
Dex 16+2 racial = 18 [10 points]
Con 9 [-1 point] (no build that lowers constitution is overpower IMO)
Int 12 [2 points]
Wis 7 [-4 points]
Cha 17+2 racial+1 4th level increase [13 points]
Which adds up to 19 for me.
Lets see. So you conjure 1d3 minions in the surprise round if there ever is first round. Highest possible attack for 1st level minion is +5 (riding dog with augment summoning). Not impressive at 4th level but at least it is 17 hp road bump for enemies (average damage expected of CR 4 monster is 16 - there is a real chance of them bothering single opponent for a few rounds).
However, your character has something like Fortitude +1 saving throw bonus. Blindness. Hope you rolled 18+ on your prescience as without ability to see you cannot select destination square for the summons. And blindness has range four times longer than summon.
Not really over powered, but it is fricking sweet!
The one other piece that I did not know how it should be taken into account is that according to the book spell like abilities have no V,S or M requirements. So you just think about some mobs showing up and they do. So if you are wearing armor you sure as heck don't look like the caster who is causing all the trouble. Do the guys on the other side target ineffectual looking halfling fighters? And how do they target you if they have mobs on them? You put a stealth ability on this guy since you lose the +2 init and can he go hidden and mentally summon mobs on top of your crew? When he does how do the baddies locate him since he is hidden? Sounds like there might be a few ways to not be a target of opportunity whilst be a total PITA to the OPFOR. That going fisrt thing has to rock.
Unless you're the only summoner in the world, you won't fool a lot of moderately intelligent enemies by being the guy in armor around a bunch of summoned monsters. Especially as they can see you directing traffic, so to speak--you have to tell summoned monsters what to do if you want them to do anything but the general "attack my enemies!" command.
Edit: By the way, I'm not trying to pooh-pooh summoners in general. I'm a huge fan of them, especially the evolutionist, as they have that whole FF thing going for them.
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The master summoner archetype does what yours does, minus the diviner powers (which admittedly are pretty sweet). Keep in mind also that there is no need to max out charisma, especially with the master summoner, who gains 5 + charisma modifier number of summon monster, rather than 3 +.
The build I would go with is as follows:
Gnome summoner (master summoner)
Str 8, Dex 14, Con 16, Int 14, Wis 10, Cha 16
Feat Improved Initiative
Traits Collector (Spellcraft), Excitable
You still have 8 uses of your spell-like ability per day, and you gain Augment Summoning as a bonus feat at level 2. On top of that, your stunted eidolon can be a packmule/extra set of eyes/trapmonkey while you still supplement your allies with a summoned creature.
Initiative is +8 at first level, and an eventual aim is to gain as a weapon a +1 dueling cestus (if my math is right, the cost comes to 16,301gp for another +4 to initiative). If you want even higher initiative, grab Noble Scion at first level, and pick up Improved Initiative at level 3.
Keep in mind you might get really bored of this really soon, and your fellow players may roll their eyes when you summon your third celestial eagle for a total of 9 attack rolls per turn.
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Actually my "players" would probably hate me for it since 95 percent of the time I am the GM. I get to play an adventure path (my first time really playing in forever) so I was really jazzed to dig through the books from a player perspective. Mostly I have been reading them from a GM perspective so character optimization isn't really key.
In any case, as others have mentioned, you do have errors in your original build (Augment Summoning without the prerequisite, two traits that give initiative, and the eidolon can't be a mount or a packmule if you're planning on summoning); there are also poor choices like dumping constitution and wisdom (although dumping wisdom hurts less than constitution because of the summoner's fast will save and halfling luck).
I would not be scared of a build like this; it's quite the glass cannon. What do you do when fighting summoned creatures? Target the summoner.