Is there any kind of psychic link between Druids and their animal companion? I have a player who wants to use her bear as a scout and get back visual images of what it sees.
Another question, is using wild empathy against an attacking animal viable?
That is what I have concluded, thank you.
For the scouting visual you could retrain the Druid to the Pack Lord Druid archetype (from Ultimate Magic), so he can use Improved Empathic Link (Su) from the 6th level.
The pack lord gains an empathic link with all of her animal companions. This functions like an empathic link with a familiar. In addition, as a swift action the pack lord can shift her perception to one of her companions, allowing her to experience what it sees, hears, and so on. She can maintain this connection as long as she likes (as long as the companion is within 1 mile) and end it as a free action. The druid can only use this ability on one companion at a time, and cannot see, hear, or smell with her own body while maintaining this connection.
This ability replaces the 6th-level additional use of wild shape.
Edit: Sorry, by RAW he can use it form 1st level, non from the 6th
Ok, so a vanilla level 3 druid is not capable of suck a feat.
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'animal' shaman druids can use Wild Empathy with their animal types as a full-round action. PRD link
If he is a vanilla druid level 3 he can, acording to Ultimate Campaign rules, became a Pack Lord druid level 3 without any retrain.
Note that a Pack Lord can still have only one Animal Companion, and that the only thing the druid will loose is the 6th-level additional use of wild shape.
About the Wild Empaty, at level 5, with 5 ranks in Handle Animal he can take the Fast Empathy feat so he can use wild empaty as a standard action, making it viable in combat.
That clears that up, thank you.