Totem druid 26/Monk 4

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Brahtius
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Re: Totem druid 26/Monk 4

Post by Brahtius » Mon May 27, 2019 3:35 pm

Your animal companion is the majority of your damage. Look after it.

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Re: Totem druid 26/Monk 4

Post by Roarthing » Mon May 27, 2019 4:12 pm

It's so squishy though :cry:

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Peppermint
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Re: Totem druid 26/Monk 4

Post by Peppermint » Sat Jun 08, 2019 5:00 am

Go for GSF Conjuration if you don't have it. Stronger summons will help a lot.

Totem shape makes for a functional frontline, but it's a poor damage-dealer. Ultimately, the reason you take the totem path isn't really for the totem forms (they're so-so early, and late game they suck), but for the stat bonuses in monolith/dragon shape. On the flip side, you become much more vulnerable when not polymorphed; whether or not the trade off is worth it depends largely on your playstyle.

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Re: Totem druid 26/Monk 4

Post by Sea Shanties » Sat Jun 08, 2019 8:09 am

You can't do much to increase your own damage-- taking improved crit: unarmed might help a little, I guess.

Taking knockdown and expertise help you control a fight so your summons and companions can wail on them though. Druids get parry as a skill so investing in that can be situationally useful. You should really think of yourself as the leader of a little army, not the sole damage dealer.

Also if you're not using spells like grease and storm of vengeance you really should be, they work wonders. Divine wands too.

I find totems most useful for two things, aesthetics (a swarm of one animal type is very cool) and the instant action polymorph which is very good defensively.

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Re: Totem druid 26/Monk 4

Post by blksabbath74 » Sat Jun 15, 2019 11:25 pm

I wish when they update the Druids, they'd tune up some of the more currently useless Totem Druids to give them synergy with appropriate multi-class or other options.

Maybe some skills or bonus feats...or other bonuses. For example;

Parrot Totem with Bard

Every X #of levels counts as Bard for the purposes of Bard Song, Bardic Lore & requirements for Lasting Inspiration.

Brahtius
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Re: Totem druid 26/Monk 4

Post by Brahtius » Sun Jun 16, 2019 7:12 am

You want to buff druids?

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Re: Totem druid 26/Monk 4

Post by blksabbath74 » Sun Jun 23, 2019 12:43 am

Brahtius wrote:
Sun Jun 16, 2019 7:12 am
You want to buff druids?
Not remotely what I said...

I said that I'd like to see the totem druids, most of which are borderline unusable, revamped to be usable for multiclass, which would have no effect whatsoever on Druid 30 builds.

Brahtius
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Re: Totem druid 26/Monk 4

Post by Brahtius » Sun Jun 23, 2019 12:51 am

Borderline unusable? All picking a totem does is lowers your base form stats. In exchange you get an instant action polymorph with crazy stats that you can perform while knocked down. It also makes levelling much easier.

Some of the totems can e even do some pretty nifty things. Rat, bat and eagle all have pretty cool bonuses.

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