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I am making my first druid. I would like to take natural spell at first level and wild speak at third level. Both feats state that you have to have the wild shape class ability. I get to change at fourth level. I had one judge to tell me that I could take the feats and just not use them until fourth level. I had another judge tell me that I could not take the feats until after I could change shape. Which judge is right?
From a technical standpoint (which is the basis of PFS), you cannot take natural spell until you have the wildshape ability, which is level 4 for a base druid and level 6 for the archetypes.
Also, from a technical standpoint, you cannot "save" feats. You have to take them when you gain the appropriate level. Hence, if you are a base druid (which I highly recommend), you'll take Natural Spell at level 5.
If you want to use a feat that you'll eventually get around to using, select Heavy Armor Proficiency and eventually get the Dragon Scale Full Plate armor with the +wild enhancement. It will set you back a lot of coin, but it's really the best armor you're going to get.
If you have future questions on druids or wildshape, send me a PM anytime.
You can retrain an old feat, but at level 3 you can't say "I wont choose a feat, I'll save it for level 4 when I get the wildshape ability, then choose Natural Spell". That wont fly. At level 3, you have to pick a feat. If you choose to go back and retrain, that's another option.
I am making my first druid. I would like to take natural spell at first level and wild speak at third level. Both feats state that you have to have the wild shape class ability. I get to change at fourth level. I had one judge to tell me that I could take the feats and just not use them until fourth level. I had another judge tell me that I could not take the feats until after I could change shape. Which judge is right?
The second one, and that first judge is disturbingly bad at the rules. You need to meet the prerequisites before you can even take the feats. For class abilities specifically, you don't have a class ability before you're high enough level to have received the ability.
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I am making my first druid. I would like to take natural spell at first level and wild speak at third level
You don't qualify until you have the Wild Shape ability.
For some of the Shaman Druids this is delayed from 4th to 6th level.
My original plan was to get breast plate made out of dark wood have iron wood cast on it and have it made permanent.
You can't cast permanency in PFS and the Iron Wood spell would expire at the end of every module.
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My original plan was to get breast plate made out of dark wood have iron wood cast on it and have it made permanent. I know it would cost a lot of gold , but it would give ac +6 with ACP 0. If I calculated it correctly.
Breastplates are normally made of metal. You cannot make one out of Darkwood (cool idea, though!).
You can purchase Dragonhide armors in PFS, but they are not "always available". You must have enough Fame to purchase them.
But there is one loophole for low level Druids. Once per session you may spend two of your Prestige Points to get any one item that is PFS legal and valued at 750gp or less for FREE.
And Dragonhide Breastplates just happen to cost 700gp.
Hopefully that will help you out a bit.
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I am making my first druid. I would like to take natural spell at first level and wild speak at third level. Both feats state that you have to have the wild shape class ability. I get to change at fourth level. I had one judge to tell me that I could take the feats and just not use them until fourth level. I had another judge tell me that I could not take the feats until after I could change shape. Which judge is right?
You do have to meet the pre-requisites to take a feat.
However, you could take something else that's helpful, and when you hit the proper level, retrain those feats to what you wanted previously. When you retrain, you can put almost anything in that slot as long as you aren't messing with any dependencies, and you still meet the current prerequisites.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/basics-ability-scores/more-character-options/retrai ning
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Retraining rules are found in Ultimate Campaign and some of the FAQ apply.
Augment summoning works very well for druids but no all druids will use summons making it a great feat for some builds.
I like playing melee druids so usually don't have the feat for it but I do like aug summoning with some of the animal shaman builds esp. at 5th level when you can summon as a standard.
Best way to work with your lion companion:
1) Make sure your lion takes the attack trick TWICE, so it will attack unnatural creatures. See if you can also get the flanking trick. Not sure if that's PFS legal however. It's not listed in PRD, so probably not.
2) Remind your GM not to skip your companion. Happens all the time. If you can't think of what your companion should do, say your companion is holding its action. Don't just pass. Often times GMs just assume you both go at the same time to keep the game moving faster, as you'll be doing a lot of rolling. Up to you how much of a stink you want to make of it.
3) I assume you'll be a Dire Tiger form from level 6+ to talk to your companion. You'll need to print out the 2-page flow-chart on grappling, as you'll be doing a lot of it. Get to know those rules.
3) Take Improved Natural Attack on your claws, because at level 8 you'll access the RAKE ability, allowing you to charge and get a Bite attack and 4 claw attacks. Tell the other players not to get in the way of your charge attacks. Very, very frustrating when that happens. Improved Initiative helps in this regard, or walking up front, or both.
4) Strength, strength, and more strength. Just keep wisdom up enough to allow you to cast the appropriate level spells as needed. 90% of your spells are buff spells. Only cast stuff that has decent duration.