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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6890034" data-attributes="member: 82106">I'd think trading sucky riders on ALL your powers just to get a +1 when using a MAX of about 3 powers a day, unless you do crazy stuff, would be a bad bargain all around TBH. Obviously you'd have no AC problems with this build, but...And yes, you CAN live with just DEX secondary and avoid every CON based rider power, but there are a LOT of good powers you'll be left out of. I mean its not terrible, you're certainly going to have a reasonably effective character, and maybe with all the druid support that rolled in in HotFK, HotEC, and HotFW its less of an issue than it was in the days of PP. I really haven't done that extensive building with the more recent sources, as we've not had a lot of play time in the last couple years, nor is there anyone running a druid these days. In fact it was one of those classes that pretty much never got much attention in our games, cool as it is. Swarm Druid just seems to be left slightly 'out there' without quite having a really compelling argument in its favor. Its in much the same boat as Beastmaster and a few other builds. They WORK, and in fact if you have a player and DM that are willing to work on it a little bit, then many of these builds can be quite cool and perfectly effective in an overall sense.</blockquote>