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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Werebat" data-source="post: 5656345" data-attributes="member: 40158">So I've decided to shuffle Ghost Form from 9th level to 8th level, to eliminate the dead level at 8th.  Given that I'm running an E8 campaign, this is all I need to do to eliminate dead levels.I'm still not sure the Spirit Shaman is really competitive with, say, the druid or the cleric.  I'm inclined to give them one more significant ability.  I was contemplating upgrading their spirit guide to a telthor, making it something akin to a druidic animal companion.  Maybe as the ranger, with class level -3 as the shaman's effective druid level, or maybe granting the spirit guide the ability to manifest as a telthor for a certain amount of time per day (making this essentially a free variant summon monster ability).Any ideas?Edit -- scratch the telthor idea, I think it would just encourage optimization and choosing only good combat animals as spirit guides.  Maybe allowing the spirit guide to cast spells for the spirit shaman a certain number of times per day?  Effectively granting Quicken Spell to a class that would otherwise have some difficulty with metamagic.</blockquote>