So, I have my GM's permission! My Extinction Curse Cleric is going to rebuild a Summoner, and we're going to see if I can hack it and replace the Cleric as the party healer and religious type, while adding another body to the front line with significant impact.
Who is the Summoner? - She's a tiefling devotee of Nocticula, the Redeemer Queen and an eccentric artist and performer. She's also currently the team Face and Medic, and the circus's upcoming star Animal Trainer. Its a number of hats, but someone has to wear them.
Who is the Eidolon? - A newly minted servitor of Nocticula, this Elysian outsider is minted in her creators image as a evening-violet angelic being, with traits associated with Nocticula's demonic origins. (Angel eidolon, attacks are a manifested dagger (d8 slashing) and a barbed tail (d4 piercing, agile).
The party is level 6 at the moment - the plan is to take Heal, Dispel Magic (as a general magic troubleshooter), Calm Emotions and Command as my four spells. The offensive spells are only on-accuracy for the level for this level, but the plan is to mostly rely on Heal for most of my spell slots anyway since I'm replacing a Cleric.
For feats, I'm taking Medic Dedication at level 2 as I think its one of the stronger single feats for increasing healing output, on top of my 4 spell slots worth of healing magic. For 4th, its Tandem Move and 6th is Reinforce Eidolon for its 'half a shield' and damage resistance to give us a Frontliner that's ever so slightly tougher than the rest of the party.
Capabilities - That gives me four solid Heal spells per day at maximum output, plus Medic Enhanced Battle Medicine. I've got the Charisma to be even better as our party Face, and I don't lose out on skills... I actually think I'm slightly better, especially since my Eidolon can now pick up my slack on Athletics and use Aid for pretty much anything else I'd like to do. Since the Eidolon share's my proficiencies, pretty soon that Aid is going to be hitting higher bonuses via Critical Successes.
Plus I'm adding another character to the battle line to distract, draw fire, and provide flanking and attacks. While my Eidolon lacks class feats, she hits as hard as anyone else in the party as we don't have anyone swinging a two handed or larger weapon - and for the moment, Reinforce Eidolon is an improvement on everyone else's AC unless they have a Shield Raised.
Growth - At 8th, I may pick up Ranged Evolution to kindof clear up the Battle Line - alternatively, I could reconsider either Reinforce Eidolon and take Magical/Greater Magical Evolution to give my Eidolon some spellcasting flavor - the Eidolon would make a much better origin point for Bless than my character herself.
Past that, I haven't decided where I'm going to go. I could start to buy out of Medic via skill feats, and pick up another Dedication - possibly going back into Beast Master like I am currently. That's rough on Action Economy, but more bodies is more better? And there's still plenty of time for the 4 feats needed to get a 'maxed out' animal companion.
I'm extremely excited to try this build. It works very well for the image I've created, and doesn't feel like its really lacking in capability - its not going to be as good as a Cleric healer, but even assuming that its Spellcasting resources are almost all dedicated toward Healing, the character has plenty to offer in a scrap via Eidolon and Skills.
White Room theorycraft doesn't see a lot of issues now, other than maybe a crowded front line - we'll have four people fighting up front this way. Thats another pair for flanking though...
Its never been my experience that enemies are as much of a threat as some have said towards the back line casters - foes have to use actions getting there, going around my allies. Many foes don't even have enough tactical awareness or intelligence to consider this course of action... but, it hasn't been an issue so far, I don't see it getting worse now. I could be wrong here.
Anyone have any thoughts? Anyone else have an concept they'd like to share, along with how well the current implementation in playtest supports it - or maybe what it would take to make it feel better.
sensory evolution- was between this or the skills
distracting summon spell- use summons as flanking and meat shields for my eidolon, give it an extra attack seems good
tandem move- simple action economy boost
reinforce eidolon- simple defensive option to keep you/eidolon alive
magical evolution- get shield cantrip
protective bond- no brainer
conduit focus- no brainer
resilient evolution- no brainer
effortless concentration- mega no brainer
conduit wellspring- no brainer
eternal boost.- no brainer
what you really miss out on is things like flight. but you do have limited spells. pick up haste/fly on top of summons. there you go should cover you.
what you really miss out on is things like flight. but you do have limited spells. pick up haste/fly on top of summons. there you go should cover you.
You get Fly for the Eidolon from Evolution Surge.
You get Fly for the Eidolon from Evolution Surge.
what you really miss out on is things like flight. but you do have limited spells. pick up haste/fly on top of summons. there you go should cover you.
more for the summoner :)
more for the summoner :)You get Fly for the Eidolon from Evolution Surge.
what you really miss out on is things like flight. but you do have limited spells. pick up haste/fly on top of summons. there you go should cover you.
Ah - I'm getting that from a Tiefling feat, I believe :)
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You know Yuna from FFX? Yes that with a Dragon Bahamut Eidolon.
Piercing Breath Weapon for the Almight damage.
Lvl 2 - Blessed one
Lvl 4 - Tandem Move
Lvl 6 - Ostentatious Arrival - have you seen how the things reach on battle?
Lvl 8 - Hulking Evolution
Lvl 10 - Transpose
Lvl 12 - Blessed Denial
Lvl 14 - Towering Evolution
Lvl 16 - Winged Evolution
Lvl 18 - Resilient Evolution
Lvl 20 - Eternal Boost.
There now I have a giant dragon thingy to cast Megaflare for me.
Slightly irrelevant to the discussion at hand but am very glad to see another Nocticula worshipper in Exctinction Curse! She works so well for it!
I'm also playing a Nocticula worshipper in Extinction Curse, as a liberator!
Don't want to derail the thread though, I'll post my planned build for a backup in a near-future Planescape game tomorrow.