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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teneb" data-source="post: 1911432" data-attributes="member: 3572">Well Rashak, I'm in a little bit of a special case I guess.  In the Tainted World (Kal's homebrew) arcane magic is....wait for it.....tainted.  As such, our group doesn't have any mages or sorcerers, because those folks tend to go stark raving mad.  An offensive druid made sense to me.  So far, he's working fabulously.  I am without question the artillery of the group.  I just hit 11th level, and lay down flamestrikes and lightning storms with wild abandon.  I've got Natural Spell, Spell and Greater Spell Focus (Evocation); that coupled with a Amulet of Wisdom +3, my DCs are quite high and I'd say 80-90% of the time opponents can't make the save for half damage (which, I'm sure you'll agree, is a big deal).I like the versatility of the druid as well.  We recently fought some demons/devils (I forget).  Anyway, they were basically immune to fire and lightning which are my bread and butter.  I started pitching high level spells and summoning dire lions and the like to fight them.  They didn't do crazy amounts of damage, but they soaked damage that would have otherwise gone to our party's tanks, and also provided flanking.  In a pinch (and this is absolutely last ditch for me) I can wildshape and take on baddies as a bear or some other appropriate critter myself.  I much prefer flying 100 feet over the battlefield and dropping elemental damage however.  Bottom line: both a blaster and a summoner druid would be fun to play.  If you don't have a wizard, as is the case with my party, blaster would probably be a good idea.  If there's someone else in the party who takes up the artillery role, summoner wouldn't be bad.  There are a lot of great animals on those Summon Nature's Allies lists, and as someone mentioned above, giving every one of them +2 hp/HD and +2 attack and damage with Augment Summoning is certainly nothing to sneeze at.  Good luck with it!  I'd never played a druid before this, and I've found that I really enjoy the class.</blockquote>

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