| Merellin |
So, I'v been trying to think of three kind of druids. One, The Giant/Megafauna type druid I know the archetype for (Goliath Druid, Seems fun!)
But I also looked for a Elemental focused druid, Though the only one I found was the Elemental Ally who looses Wild Shape.. Is it good? Is there any other druid the focuses on elementals, Both summoning and turning into them?
And the third type I was looking into was a Plant Focused druid, Turning into plant creatures, Having a plant companion and so on. I found the Leshy Warden which seems fun, Are there any other archetypes of druid that gets a plant companion and such?
Thanks in advance!
| blahpers |
2. Unfortunately, I don't know of a druid archetype that specializes in elemental shapes. Fortunately, most druids can wild shape into elementals already--there's little need to specialize. It'd be nice to have an archetype that could summon elementals and keep their ability to wild shape into them as well (maybe even at lower level than usual), but I don't know of such an archetype. If I were to recklessly speculate, I might think that Paizo didn't want to step on the sorcerer's toes too much.
3. Treesinger is the traditional archetype for druids with plant companions, but they're an elf racial archetype. Supernaturalist can also get one, but the theme of the class is, ah, different.
| avr |
For elemental summoning and dealing with elementals in general look at the elemental ally archetype. I don't know that there's any archetype that specialises in turning into an elemental, though multiclassing into some other class and getting the shaping focus feat can make the most of an elemental form.
| cavernshark |
While not an elemental themed archetype, you can take misc. options to create a theme for an elemental druid that gets what you want. You could take one of the Elemental Plane domains (Plane of Earth, Plane of Fire, etc.) on your druid. Many of them provide benefits related to the elemental plane you pick and the 8th level power lets you take the domain power or an elemental familiar. This option on a vanilla druid would let you keep Wildshape while still theming you towards dealing with elementals.
As for summoning elementals, that's covered well with the basic summoning druid capabilities since they're all on Summon Nature's Ally as is. Take the Plane of X domain. For feats, take (1) Spell Focus (Conjuration), (3) Augment Summons, and then get Natural Spell to speak while wild shaped and/or Versatile Summon Nature's Ally to apply elemental templates to other creatures you summon.
For traits, there are also some good ones like Affinity for the Elements, Elemental Negotiator, or Outsider Ties to also show your connection to the elemental planes.