has anyone ever done some work with figuring out how high you can get a single weapon or natural attack's damage dice for the purposes of vital strike? I'm actually rather curious how dumb we can make vital strike. So far the biggest natural attack I've found obtainable by shapeshifting is the Behemoth Hippopotamus's 4d8 bite attack, or the Formain Queen's 4d8 claws, that you can up to 6d8 with improved natural attack.
Are you restricting this to PC's? I'm pretty sure a Colossal Red Dragon with certain feat and spell choices could get a pretty crazy bite attack, though I don't have access to the rules right now to double-check myself.
I think the monster most bandied for this sort of thing is the Carnivorous Cavern Crystal who sports a 7d8 slam.
(Note, only shapeshiftable by Cave Druids)
Lv 10 equivalent cave druid, specifically. By casting Strong Jaw, and referring to This faq, we see that the base weapon damage for the slam goes to 16d6.
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bastard sword: 1d10
Exotic Weapon proficiency[Bastard Sword] + large (wield as 2h): 2d8
Impact enchantment: 3d8
Enlarge person: 4d8
Vital strike: 8d8
I think a Carnivorous Crystal has come up in similar threads. Its slam is 7d8. Cave Druids (archetype) can change into one.
With the spell strong jaw (increases natural attack as if 2 sizes larger), I believe that works out to 16d6. See the table here — 7d8 -> 8d6 (per "coversion" since 7d8 not found), then -> 12d6 for 1 size increase, and -> 16d6 for 2nd size increase.
Ninja'd!