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Your point allocation is good, but I would suggest bumping up your Wisdom to at least 14-16. Druids use Wisdom as their stat for casting spells and require 10+spell level Wisdom to cast spells of a specific level. As is, you'd only ever be able to cast 1st level spells without an item to bump your wisdom up. While you do want to focus on melee, the best way to do this as a Druid is by giving yourself some cool buffs from your spells. Additionally, you'll likely never want to prepare a Summon Nature's Ally spell, as you can swap any of your prepared spells for that when you cast it. A tip for the animal companion you may not know, you will want to use two of your companions available trick slots for Attack. This will allow it to attack both living and non-living creatures (e.g. undead and constructs, which are common). You also seem to have allocated too many skill points, unless you're putting your favored class bonus into a skill point rather than an HP. a Druid gets 4+ INT Mod. (0) +1 (Human bonus) = 5. Improving your Handle Animal (at least until you can re-build out when more skill points can go in) is a good idea, so that you can effectively command your companion (DC10 or DC12,if injured, check that you get a +4 on). Skill Focus (Handle Animal) will get you an extra +1 on that for first level, which is probably better unless you plan to be mounted, since otherwise Ride is rarely used.
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You have 6 skills, so I assume the favored class bonus went into a skillpoint?
Personally I'd advise you to not dump wisdom that much and go with the following array:
Str: 17 (15+2 human)
Dex: 14
Con: 14
Int: 11
Wis: 13
Cha: 10
This gives you an extra hp (con 14 instead of 13), and you'll be able to cast up to level 3 spells until you get a headband at the expense of a +1 to hit and damage until level 4 where you can raise your strength to 18.
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You can drop charisma for more points. Having a lower handle animal isn't that big of a deal for a melee druid, and thats all you're going to use it for probably. If you set the animal to defend you and charge into combat it till probably follow. If it likes you...
Your little bundle of claws should get the attack trick twice: without the second attack trick animals won't attack undead oozes abberations and ... well. Pretty much half of what you're going to come accross in the dungeon. Come and heel are a little redundant so dropping one isn't the end of the world
STR: 17 DEX: 14 CON: 14 INT: 12 WIS: 14 CHA: 7
You can bump str up to 18 at 4th level.
Dex for ranged and armor class cause you're going to be naked while you shapeshift for a bit
con of 14 because you're in melee and things will hit you
int 12 is important because pathfinder society is very skill heavy and you'll want to keep a number of them maxed out.
If you're primarily melee you need the wisdom of 14 just to get to 4th level spells, and at some point you'll get a headband of wisdom to up it to 16 which will let you cast the most powerful spells in normal pfs.
7 charisma... well. You were raised by wolves. Its not their fault you didn't socialize properly and they had to send you back. The vast majority of druids only use charisma for handle animal, but thats very easy to increase on its own.
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Hitpoints for a melee are usually more important than a skillpoint yes. However if you have access to People of the North and don't need to be a Vudrani you could go Kellid and take the feat Tribal Scars instead of Animal Affinity, with slothjaw being your tribe for a +6 hitpoints, +1 willsave and +2 to handle animal checks instead of +2 to handle animal and ride. I find this to be a very nice feat for frontliners :) and I find it enables me to use the favored class bonus for hitpoints or other useful things (like extra spells for oracles/sorcerers).
Clubs are free, so pick one up and carry it anyway. It'll also be a great target for the Shillelagh spell.
If you have enough gold trade the sickle for a scimitar if you want mechanical optimization.
Flutter already pointed out a possible stat array, and you can offset the handle animal check penalty from charisma for your animal companion really easy by using a 10 gp training harness (Advanced Race Guide, +2 handle animal) and a 50 gp masterwork tool for handling animals (CRB)
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If you want a bludgeoning weapon right away pick up a club (cost 0gp), and add it to your list of weapons (it can also become quite powerful with a casting of the spell Shillelagh). I second boosting wisdom to at least 13 if not 14. Not being able to cast higher level spells will really cut into your ability to buff and be flexible at higher levels.
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I believe that the training harness IS the (or at least a) mw tool for handle animal and probably wouldn't stack with another masterwork tool.
Actually the wording on the two suggest it isn't entirely the same.
The training harness gives a permanent untyped bonus, while a masterwork tool gives a circumstance bonus, however the masterwork tool should be limited in use (for example only give you a +2 to push your animal companion, or a +2 to train an animal a new trick), so not a blanket +2 as my earlier statement.Edit: and yes, PDF on tablet with watermark is perfectly acceptable in PFS.
Welcome Jarrin,
Though your skill points are allocated correctly, your overall numbers at each of those skills is not yet done. Except for Stealth you get a +3 bonus to each of these (they are class skills for a druid). You also get to apply your ability modifier to them (+2 on stealth with your original numbers for example).
... Come and heel are a little redundant so dropping one isn't the end of the world....
I disagree. is to get an animal to come to you from a distance. is to get an animal to stay next to you. At the very least expect table variation.