I am looking for insights/experiences with these two archetypes for a Druid.
I'm looking to focus as a spell caster and really liked the Storm Druid archetype. It seems over all giving up the summons is worth the trade off, and even more so once I hit 9th level for the extra domain.
I found the Storm Lord a fun variant, I'm just not sure about giving up wild shape. I know as a full in caster I'll be able to get fly from some of the spell like abilities, just not sure what experiences people have had.
Side note, the campaign that this character will be in is city based, and traveling to underground cities. It's a Homebrew game.
I am looking to go 10 15 14 14 21 10 for stats. We are going +10 and 2 odds.
I was going human taking my wisdom from 19 to 21.
Human for the stat and extra feat. No real reason other than that.
Feats I'm leaning towards Improved Initiative, and Scribe Scroll.
Like I said I'm just looking for insights or what experiences you may have had. Any help is welcomed, thanks so much!
I went with Storm Druid because we have a Summoner in the party who creates army as needed, so S.N. Ally as spontaneous was superfluous. We're still low level, just made 4th, and so far so good. One benefit is I can cast spells all day long, so it seems great if you wanna be caster focused. The domains we can choose from are less than ideal, but at later levels I plan to use metamagic to debuff enemy via lightning.
One side benefit I didn't expect was noticeably less paperwork since there was no animal companion and no dozens of little cards with S.N.A. info scattered around.
I have your reservations about forgoing wild shape via Storm Lord with too little in return.
Yeah I'm ok with losing SNA, I actually am not a huge fan of summoning pets. And let's face it, less paperwork is always a bonus.
As far as Storm Lord goes, I'll have until 4th level to think it over.
Thanks for the insight. If anyone has some about Storm Lord it would be appreciated.