Tetraplex
2014-03-13, 11:17 AM
Greetings, Playgrounders
Doing a bit of theorycrafting for a concept I hope dearly to use in a game one day. The basic concept is going Wizard 3/Druid 3/??? 1/Arcane Hierophant 10/Mystic Theurge 3 to get dual 9s, decent wildshaping, and a great familiar/companion. I want to run Warforged with a swarm of bees (group's usual DM has said he would allow it to get feats as normal as long as I didn't optimize too much and honestly, I just want to be a magical transformer full of bees anyway)
However, I have found two PrCs that I like equally well that both complement the build in different ways. Master of Many Forms grants humanoid wildshaping and the ability to speak while shaped. Beastmaster on the other hand powers up my swarm as though I were 4 levels higher, meaning I would count as a 17th level druid by the end (20th with Natural Bond!) and also boosts my Wild Empathy. Decision are hard, so I've come to you excellent fellows to find which benefits are superior. And yes, I'm aware straight Druid is probably superior, at least at lower levels, but we tend to start a 6 minimum (DM finds low levels boring) and I'm the only player at my table who knows anything about optimization so the minor nerfs Theurging and role play bring are outright encouraged for party parity.
Ability scores are as follows, after level 4/8 bumps and racial mods:
STR 14
DEX 16
CON 20
INT 18
WIS 18
CHA 12
Doing a bit of theorycrafting for a concept I hope dearly to use in a game one day. The basic concept is going Wizard 3/Druid 3/??? 1/Arcane Hierophant 10/Mystic Theurge 3 to get dual 9s, decent wildshaping, and a great familiar/companion. I want to run Warforged with a swarm of bees (group's usual DM has said he would allow it to get feats as normal as long as I didn't optimize too much and honestly, I just want to be a magical transformer full of bees anyway)
However, I have found two PrCs that I like equally well that both complement the build in different ways. Master of Many Forms grants humanoid wildshaping and the ability to speak while shaped. Beastmaster on the other hand powers up my swarm as though I were 4 levels higher, meaning I would count as a 17th level druid by the end (20th with Natural Bond!) and also boosts my Wild Empathy. Decision are hard, so I've come to you excellent fellows to find which benefits are superior. And yes, I'm aware straight Druid is probably superior, at least at lower levels, but we tend to start a 6 minimum (DM finds low levels boring) and I'm the only player at my table who knows anything about optimization so the minor nerfs Theurging and role play bring are outright encouraged for party parity.
Ability scores are as follows, after level 4/8 bumps and racial mods:
STR 14
DEX 16
CON 20
INT 18
WIS 18
CHA 12