Druid summoner

[ekibus]

So trying to make a summoner for awhile and the druid was mentioned. The feat Summon Guardian Spirit had me excited... only to find out that it isnt allowed in PFS...which kind of killed the idea. But I thought summon nature ally would allow you to summon fairy or creatures with magic? As for archetype I know saurian is a popular way to go but any other thing to check out

[Griselda Sarducci]

I've made excellent use of feats like starlight summons, moonlight summons and versatile summoning out of the summoner's handbook. And the optional summon list, (you have to give up summoning any other outsiders in PFS,) out First World, Realm of the Fey has some incredibly powerful creatures in it.

[blashimov]

If you look at higher level summon nature's ally spells, there's a few fey on there.

[derpdidruid]

SPAM CYCLOPS! They are pretty much a death sentance to anything that's close to you in power, and even later on they're pretty much a garentead 50 damage a round plus a few meat shields.

[ekibus]

Sorry haven't had a chance to sit down yesterday. So I noticed there are a ton of archetypes for druid and ive been going through all of them. I found a awesome feat...found out it isnt available in pfs and moved on (forgot the name but gave a summon magic among other things.) I'm looking at the saurian shaman at this point, standard summons are key. But I'm quickly noticing how tight feats will be.

[Wayne Bradbury]

Summoning as a standard action really is super important. Full round casting has no place in combat, generally speaking. However, I think you'd be much better off with Lion Shaman. This allows you to have a big cat companion, which is the most powerful basic companion, and gives you more combat summoning options. Dinos tend to be fewer ad farther between to choose from.

With Lion Shaman:
SNA 2: Young Leopard
SNA 3: Leopard
SNA 4: Tiger
SNA 5: Dire Lion (some GMs will let you get Manticore here)
SNA 6: Dire Tiger

And those are all of course with the option to apply young or advanced templates to these things and make use of them at other levels (in some cases you may be better off using a young or advanced creature from the next or previous level instead of the level appropriate creature).

You're almost certainly going to want to be Human for the extra feat early on. But the feat selections won't be all that bad.

By the time you hit level 5, you're going to need/want:
Spell Focus (stupid tax)
Augment Summoning
Superior Summoning

[ekibus]

I'll look into the cat more. The dino getting extra hp was nice. I think my end goal is to be balanced. Have the summons up, cat when needed and shape to participate. So 3 summons min, 4 if you add versatile summoning. Then heavy armor, power attack, toughness and animal speech. Problem is summons aren't great until around level 5 so 1 to 5 the feats are so so for normal combat

[Wayne Bradbury]

ekibus wrote:

I'll look into the cat more. The dino getting extra hp was nice. I think my end goal is to be balanced. Have the summons up, cat when needed and shape to participate. So 3 summons min, 4 if you add versatile summoning. Then heavy armor, power attack, toughness and animal speech. Problem is summons aren't great until around level 5 so 1 to 5 the feats are so so for normal combat

Well, one of the nice things about being a Druid is that for those first 4 levels you still just have a capable companion with 3 attacks and solid stats. And you can focus on Guidance and Cure Light Wounds to support the party.