Serafina
2016-08-07, 10:53 AM
So Legacy of Dragons is out, and I was hoping for a good way to play a character who turns into a Dragon for the purpose of fighting as such.
The new Druid Archetype that let's you do so is sadly pretty mediocre - you trade out an awful lot, and it doesn't become at all viable until rather high levels (and even then it remains sub-par).
However, the Oracle gains a rather nice new Mystery. And it has one Revelation - Form of the Dragon that lets you turn into a Dragon (as the spel (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/f/form-of-the-dragon-i)l, scaling nicely).
Sadly, I've never really built a character like this before, so in addition to sharing my ideas, I was hoping for others.
Here is what I have so far:
The Revelation is usable once per day, with a duration of 10 minutes per Oracle level. You need to be at least 11th level to take it, so that single use extends to almost two hours of use. At 15th level, you can use Form of the Dragon I with it and extend the duration to 1 hour per Oracle level - easily enough for any adventuring day, and if we can get a second use it's enough to perpetually look like a Dragon.
The Abundant Revelations (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/abundant-revelations) feat gives an extra use for the Revelation, sadly it does not stack.
A Soothsayers Rainment (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/magic-armor/specific-magic-armor/soothsayer-s-raiment) gives an extra use for the Revelation. However, it could also grant early access to it - the armor is reasonably cheap to craft (5,300 gp) and the requirement to know the Revelation can be bypassed.
A Superior Ring of Revelations (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/rings/ring-of-revelation) is rather more expensive, but can do the same thing.
The other Revelations are also pretty nice. Some are redundant (the scaling claws are nice, but not needed if you're running around as a dragon, the same goes for wings, the draconic resistances can be overwritten depending on what dragon you turn into etc.), but you can get a scaling Breath Weapon from level 1 onward, a swift-action area-effect intimidate, get some Wizard-spells as 1/day spell-like abilities and can get a tail that can be used for attacks of opportunity only (but grants an extra one) and eventually allows a free trip-attack with that.
Suggested Revelations:
1: Breath Weapon 3: Tail Swipe 7: Dragon Senses 11: Form of the Dragon 15: Presence of Dragons 19: Dragon Magic
None of those are redundant with any ability granted by Form of the Dragon, which is nice.
Obviously, we want to support this with feats. The idea is to get a build similar to a Wild-Shape focussed Druid. Some spells for better attacking, some utility, but the main goal is to make use of the Dragon-Form, and since the Breath Weapon will only be occasionally usable until the high levels (19th level gets Form of the Dragon III, at 20th level the Breath Weapon Revelation becomes usable at-will every 1D4 rounds) that amounts to attacking in melee.
We want Abundant Revelation (Form of the Dragon) at 11th level. We probably want Power Attack (more damage) and Multiattack (better hitting with the two Wing and one Tail attack). Craft Magic Arms and Armor grants early access to the main trick, by way of crafting a Soothsayers Rainment with Form of the Dragon.
Sadly, at this point I'm out of my depth, so what other feats would be useful for this character?
Are there any other nice tricks, feats, archetypes, magic items or other such things that are particularly good for a character who specializes in polymorphing into a form with many natural weapons?
Keeping in mind that this is not Wild Shape or an animal form, so several things are not applicable.
Thank you in advance for any input :smallsmile:
The new Druid Archetype that let's you do so is sadly pretty mediocre - you trade out an awful lot, and it doesn't become at all viable until rather high levels (and even then it remains sub-par).
However, the Oracle gains a rather nice new Mystery. And it has one Revelation - Form of the Dragon that lets you turn into a Dragon (as the spel (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/f/form-of-the-dragon-i)l, scaling nicely).
Sadly, I've never really built a character like this before, so in addition to sharing my ideas, I was hoping for others.
Here is what I have so far:
The Revelation is usable once per day, with a duration of 10 minutes per Oracle level. You need to be at least 11th level to take it, so that single use extends to almost two hours of use. At 15th level, you can use Form of the Dragon I with it and extend the duration to 1 hour per Oracle level - easily enough for any adventuring day, and if we can get a second use it's enough to perpetually look like a Dragon.
The Abundant Revelations (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/abundant-revelations) feat gives an extra use for the Revelation, sadly it does not stack.
A Soothsayers Rainment (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/magic-armor/specific-magic-armor/soothsayer-s-raiment) gives an extra use for the Revelation. However, it could also grant early access to it - the armor is reasonably cheap to craft (5,300 gp) and the requirement to know the Revelation can be bypassed.
A Superior Ring of Revelations (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/rings/ring-of-revelation) is rather more expensive, but can do the same thing.
The other Revelations are also pretty nice. Some are redundant (the scaling claws are nice, but not needed if you're running around as a dragon, the same goes for wings, the draconic resistances can be overwritten depending on what dragon you turn into etc.), but you can get a scaling Breath Weapon from level 1 onward, a swift-action area-effect intimidate, get some Wizard-spells as 1/day spell-like abilities and can get a tail that can be used for attacks of opportunity only (but grants an extra one) and eventually allows a free trip-attack with that.
Suggested Revelations:
1: Breath Weapon 3: Tail Swipe 7: Dragon Senses 11: Form of the Dragon 15: Presence of Dragons 19: Dragon Magic
None of those are redundant with any ability granted by Form of the Dragon, which is nice.
Obviously, we want to support this with feats. The idea is to get a build similar to a Wild-Shape focussed Druid. Some spells for better attacking, some utility, but the main goal is to make use of the Dragon-Form, and since the Breath Weapon will only be occasionally usable until the high levels (19th level gets Form of the Dragon III, at 20th level the Breath Weapon Revelation becomes usable at-will every 1D4 rounds) that amounts to attacking in melee.
We want Abundant Revelation (Form of the Dragon) at 11th level. We probably want Power Attack (more damage) and Multiattack (better hitting with the two Wing and one Tail attack). Craft Magic Arms and Armor grants early access to the main trick, by way of crafting a Soothsayers Rainment with Form of the Dragon.
Sadly, at this point I'm out of my depth, so what other feats would be useful for this character?
Are there any other nice tricks, feats, archetypes, magic items or other such things that are particularly good for a character who specializes in polymorphing into a form with many natural weapons?
Keeping in mind that this is not Wild Shape or an animal form, so several things are not applicable.
Thank you in advance for any input :smallsmile: