I'm thinking of playing a summoner in an upcoming game, and having not really looked at them before had a few questions.
Our party doesn't have a full BAB meat shield, so I'm planning on trying to provide that capacity with my eidolon and summoned creatures, while also supplementing the witch's casting. We're starting at 4th level, and I'm playing a half-elf Wild Caller Summoner, for flavor and to max extra evolution points. I'm going for SF: Conj and Augment Summoning right off the bat, and considering one of the moon/star/sunlight summons to enhance my summoned creatures.
I'm hard pressed thinking of ways to make myself really combat offensive outside of spellcasting and summoned creatures, so I'm probably just going to wield a ranged weapon and try to get a shot in edgewise, as it were. Any suggestions on how to increase combat efficacy for the actual character? Dex and Con are his highest physical stats at 14 and 15 at the moment.
I've noticed that for whatever reason Summoner doesn't have access to what I've always considered the best offensive conjuration spells, stinking cloud and cloudkill; are there any good replacements for these? Or other good suggestions for spell selections to make up for this odd lack?