(Pfs)Making the most of Draconic druid multiclass, save the Drake

[Richter Harding]

So for my next character I wanna do a multiclass of bloodrager/barbarian, dragon disciple and draconic druid so that the Character acutally has a
'lore curve', having just claws and a bite to start with but being able to stay as a dragon basically 24/7 at the end of his career.

I am aware that having so many things will make the character weaker,but in the end I don't mind, however the Drake Companion bugs me, it is already very middle of the road but multiclassing will make it lag behind extremely.

The Question : Can I get rid of the Drake Companion for a domain or anything else, in any way possible?

[thelemonache]

unfortunately there is no way to get rid of it that I know of. You might be able to convince your GM to let you use leadership on it though. Then it could even take class levels :) I dont think it would be so far fetched of a thing to request, there are rules for figuring out its effective cohort level and then you could just go up with class levels from there.

[Wolventad]

Given this seems to be a PFS question, no there's not much you can do unfortunately, since Leadership is not legal for PFS play.

Outside of PFS the leadership idea might work, but for PFS its unfortunately just a case of having a very weak companion who you may choose to not even accompany you into combat.

[Nefreet]

Some ideas are better executed in a homegame environment than PFS.

[Scott Wilhelm]

Richter Harding wrote:

So for my next character I wanna do a multiclass of bloodrager/barbarian, dragon disciple and draconic druid so that the Character acutally has a

'lore curve', having just claws and a bite to start with but being able to stay as a dragon basically 24/7 at the end of his career.

I am aware that having so many things will make the character weaker,but in the end I don't mind, however the Drake Companion bugs me, it is already very middle of the road but multiclassing will make it lag behind extremely.

The Question : Can I get rid of the Drake Companion for a domain or anything else, in any way possible?

I'm picking up what you're putting down.

I don't think there is a lot to be gained from the draconic druid if you mean what I think you mean. Do you mean Dragon Shaman? I'd recommend being a regular Druid or Saurian Shaman. Anyway, turn into an Allosaurus. Your Draconic Bloodrager abilities will give you a Beath Weapon, so you'll be a Firebreathing Allosaurus, which is not exactly a Dragon, but is it really that different?

Using the Druid Wildshape to grow to size Huge to stack on top of Bloodrager Claws is a very solid choice. Your Claws and Bite will all be 2d6, and you will get a +4 ST on top of your ST increase for being Wild-Shaped in the first place. Nice.

Your worries about your Animal Companion are spot-on. Totally get a Domain, instead. If you want an animal, consider a Familiar. Make it a Mauler Familiar, so it will grow to Size Medium in Combat and fight alongside you. There are Feats that let you get Familiars and let them gain levels to grow with you even if you do Mulitclass. If you want to keep the Dragon thing, take Improved Familiair, and get a Pseudo Dragon Familiar.

I think you should either be a Druid/Bloodrager or a Druid/Barbarian. I have my doubts about being a Druid/Bloodrager/Barbarian/Dragon Disciple. If you go Druid/Bloodrager, you will continue to gain Bloodline Powers, and you will gain spells. As a Druid/Barbarian, you will get those Rage Powers and more hit points.

My instinct is to go something like this:

Level 1: Barbarian or Bloodrager
2B1Druid1
3B1D2
4B1D3
5B1D4: Natural Spell
6B2D4:
7B3D4: Shaping Focus

Then the rest of your levels in either Barbarian or Bloodrager, continuing to gain power as a Fire-Breathing, Flying, Spell-casting Raging, Huge Dinosaur!

[Richter Harding]

While I get what your saying, I am not talking about the dragon shaman druid, the archetype I am referring to is The Draconian druid,
It is one of the, for lack of a better term 'infamous' drake archetypes.

[Scott Wilhelm]

Draconic Druid looks a lot better than Dragon Shaman, but I think I still recommend Saurian Shaman.

You have the problem that the Drake is an Animal Companion, not a Familiar, so your levels in Bloodrager or anything else you are planning to take will not stack with your levels in Druid for the sake of your Animal Companion. In my experience as a Player, I find Animal Companions tend to be just something for the GM to kill when he doesn't want to kill you. I'd just go with the Domain.

The interesting Wild Shape feature of the Draconic Druid is that thing where you turn into a Dragonic Humanoid. Interesting, even cool, but not particularly fitting with your intention of being a full natural-attacking character. As a Saurian Shaman, you will get up to a Size Huge Dinosaur with 2 Claws and a Bite quite soon: Level 6 if you take Shaping Focus at level 5.

The only problem is thematic: technically, Dinosaurs aren't Dragons. But you still get your Dragon Stuff as a Bloodrager. Combine that with Saurian Shaman Wildshape, you'll be a Huge, Flying, Firebreathing Dinosaur. That's close enough to Dragon in my view. And pretty darn scary.