| GureiKun |
So in an upcoming king maker campaign (no spoilers please!) i'll be playing an eagle shaman. Got a character concept that I really like for it :)
(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TEXDUnOm9dbXpVpEj1d5M-RPfO-GEm21JvmuCj Lbp1I/edit?usp=sharing Scroll down to second page for build)
Basically what I envisage is at Level 1 I can sword/board with a scimitar. Level 3 I can pick up a crossbow for ranged options and use my totem transformation (wings) to help me get to the enemy's glass cannons (wizards and whatnot).
Levels 4-8 i'll have to suck it up a little. Druid levels should allow me to cast a few spells and I can fight unarmed/with weapons.
Level 9, can you say totemic summons?
Level 10, here is the payoff. I get to fly around as a huge bird with grab on my talons. Monk unarmed damage + feral combat training + my size should give me pretty good damage output. Grappling and fast movement speed let me shut down casters. Plus I get the epicness of grabbing people, flying up, and up, and more up, then dropping them!
Level 11 onward... I can now cast spells from the air in addition to the above. I'd say that my character concept is now "fully actualised".
In addition to general pointers and people's thoughts on whether or not this is a workable character plan, I have a few questions and things i'd like advice with before I take this character to my GM.
1. STATS. We're 15pt buy. Excluding the ranger I am the only divine caster. we have a sorcerer and bard for arcane casting. I'm not sure how to build my stat array for this. I'll need dex 13 for grapple feats. Ultimately i'll need 18 wis to cast all my spells, should I count on magical items for this and just take wis 14? Cha is the obvious dumpstat and 'id be happy going as low as 8 on it. Con is always good to have. Obviously i need STR to beef up my grapples!
2. Initially I thought all eagle shamans take the eagle domain. I now see that is not the case. I'm unsure whether I should take a domain or an animal companion. If i took the companion then I assume roc is a better choice than eagle?
3. Retraining... GM has said we will be using retraining. I intend to put in a polite request for a suitable NPC to learn feral combat from. I'd like to be able to suggest what kinds of NPCs might know feral combat... If i have an animal companion is it too much of a bend to suggest that I learn the feat from it?
4. Wild shaping... I understand that there is alot of confusion around how wild shaping works for the shaman archetypes. I've also read that this is because of cut text for word limits on the archetype. Now, i'm not playing PFS, this is a home gome and our GM is generally pretty reasonable. However he has also said that due to the amount of bookeeping involved in running kingmaker that we've to keep things enteriely within the rules with no third party or no hombrewing... So, what is the simplest and balanced way of handling shaping into a huge Roc (which is 100% what I want to do).