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I have seen all sort of answers to this question:
I have a Cleric that has taken a Druid Dedication. This Cleric Played in Plaugestone so he got the boon for the Leopard. But I am told that he can not have an animal companion unless he takes the Druid Animal Companion Feat. But I find nowhere in the description of the Architype that says that I can take this Feat.
I am not the sharpest knife in the Bandelier but I have tried to find where to find this. Can I get a direct answer about this?
Thank you very much!
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The Basic Wilding and Advanced Wilding feats in the archetype are for taking druid class feats. They exist because the level at which you can take those feats is different than if you were an actual druid. There is a level 1 druid class feat named Animal Companion. That's what you need to get an animal companion from that archetype.
Basic Wilding allows you to take a 1st or 2nd level druid feat. Select animal companion as that feat. Done.
The catch here is that later feats that progress your companion (like Mature Companion, for example) aren't going to be available until a significantly later level than normal. That's one of the reasons that you might have people try to point you towards the Beastmaster archetype, instead of the druid multiclass.
The next feat you need to take is "Basic Wilding", which is a 4th level feat that grants you a 1st or 2nd level druid feat. You would use Basic Wilding to gain the 1st level Animal Companion feat.
I assume that you selected the animal order as your order with Druid Dedication, right?
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Another way of doing this (usually because you want to poach things from TWO different druid orders) is to take the second level feat Order Explorer.
This gives you 2 orders for which you have to follow the anathema but it also means that you are now a member of two different orders that you can take feats for. So, for example, you could end up with an Animal Companion AND access to Tempest Surge by level 6.
Actually, I think you would technically need to take Advanced Wilding in order to get a second class feat from Druid. Not that it really makes any difference if you are wanting a second 1st level feat. But I don't think that you are able to take Basic Wilding a second time.
Also, there is the Beastmaster archetype that grants an animal companion directly. If you aren't wanting the primal spells, that may end up being a better option.
There is also Animal Trainer, but that is PFS Limited.
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Actually, I think you would technically need to take Advanced Wilding in order to get a second class feat from Druid. Not that it really makes any difference if you are wanting a second 1st level feat. But I don't think that you are able to take Basic Wilding a second time.
Also, there is the Beastmaster archetype that grants an animal companion directly. If you aren't wanting the primal spells, that may end up being a better option.
There is also Animal Trainer, but that is PFS Limited.
Not sure if this was in reference to my suggestion.
In case it was
At level 4+ one could take EITHER Basic Wilding OR Order Spell. Then at level 6 one can take the other one.
Basic Wilding gives access to a 1st OR 2nd level druid spell. Order explorer is a 2nd level feat and has no prerequisites so it can be taken as the Basic Wilding feat.
So, if one wanted (for example) both Tempest Surge AND Animal Companion the way to do so is via Order Explorer and both could be taken by level 6
Actually, I think you would technically need to take Advanced Wilding in order to get a second class feat from Druid. Not that it really makes any difference if you are wanting a second 1st level feat. But I don't think that you are able to take Basic Wilding a second time.Not sure if this was in reference to my suggestion.
I was mis-reading something that David knott 242 wrote. I initially thought he was saying to use Basic Wilding twice to get multiple low level Druid feats.
Still, it is good information for Grcles de Cross to know that you only need to take the archetype feat that gives a '1st or 2nd level class feat' once. After that you take the advanced class archetype feat to get feat abilities from the multiclass class.
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The next feat you need to take is "Basic Wilding", which is a 4th level feat that grants you a 1st or 2nd level druid feat. You would use Basic Wilding to gain the 1st level Animal Companion feat.I assume that you selected the animal order as your order with Druid Dedication, right?
Yes, I took the Animal Order as my Druid Dedication. I am going to look into Basic Wilding and Beastmaster. I seem to have missed some important info here.
Thanks to all of you for helping me get this straight.
I didn't address any desire to advance the animal companion as a druid does -- obviously, with only half your levels counting as druid levels, you will definitely fall behind. So it looks like you would need to "complete" the Druid archetype (in other words, take enough druid multiclassing feats to be allowed to start on another archetype) and then move on to that Beastmaster archetype.
On second thought, forget my previous posting.
Instead of taking Druid Dedication, you should go straight to Beastmaster to get your animal companion unless druid multiclassing actually gives you something really good that Beastmaster doesn't.
Depends what you want to do. There can be value in an animal companion with just one or two feats. As a simple mount that is not going to attack this can be fine. But longer term the beastmaster is just better.
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Depends what you want to do. There can be value in an animal companion with just one or two feats. As a simple mount that is not going to attack this can be fine. But longer term the beastmaster is just better.
Beast master is certainly better if all you care about is the animal.
But a druid dedication gives you lots of other stuff. Wisdom based cantrips can be gold for clerics, additional skills are useful, access to primal wands and scrolls is valuable, etc etc etc.