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Archaic

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If anyone is bored I have a character concept you could design for me.
Mostly Melee Feydark Illusionist Druid in Bear Form. It's okay to have some artistic license here in explaining how you would play your presentation. The only core to the request...Bear form, color spray (possibly high diplomacy). Pure, Multi ,forged or Flesh it doesn't matter.
Another Variant (after an ER doesnt have to be from the original request)...Acolyte of the Skin Fire Elemental with full line of pact dice feats, again Charisma based for blast dcs so Feydark there too.
 
ChickenMobile

ChickenMobile

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Ok so multiple concepts -

Concept 1
Rainbow Puking Wizardly Bear
INT based: 3 Drd/17 Wiz. Gnome/Deep Gnome
Features:
  • Get 3 COLOR SPRAYS and PUKE RAINBOWS while dealing IMBUE damage in melee.
  • Launch elemental spells and get even MOAR CC with Web.
  • Anger of the Smol' Bear
  • Use Knight's Transformation for full BAB, Spellpower scaling Imbue, Medium Armor and Shields without ASF and stack extra AC with Improved Mage Armor. 2H Weapon (probably Greatsword - Sword of Shadows) to take advantage of Bear 2H damage scaling.
  • Defensive Stance from Nature's Protector for better PRR/MRR and HP.
  • Possibility to throw in 4 levels of Wild Mage to get full Caster Levels and deal extra chaos damage with your Color Sprays.
  • INT to hit/dmg and Trance from Harper Agent
Feats:
  • Heroic: Natural Fighting x3, Improved Critical: Slashing, Greater Spell Focus: Illusion, Weapon Focus: Slashing, Precision
  • Wizard Extra: Spell Focus: Illusion, Quicken, Maximize, Empower
  • Epic: Overwhelming Critical, Perfect Natural, Eerie Aim, Crush Weakness, Patience, Doublestrike, Scion of Arborea, Epic DR, Arcane Warrior, Epic Spell Focus: Illusion, Titan's Blood

Heroic Enhancements (suggested):
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Concept 2
Dragon Lord - knifey-claw-you-in-the-face-but-charmingly Bear
CHA based: 12 DL/8 Druid. CHA race: Tiefling/Dragonborn/Eladrin or Tactic race: Warforged/Dwarf/Human
Features:
  • Big Melee Damage
  • Dire Bear! Note: I suggest you get 5-6 levels in fighter before level 12 because T5 Dragon Lord is very strong! 3 Drd/6 DL/5 Drd/6 DL would be how I would do it.
  • Both Paralyzing Roar AND Color Spray CC with extra HELPLESS DAMAGE
  • Charisma Trance
  • Puke Knives out your face! (not compatible with rage)
  • Good Defense with Shield-offhand. Note: Wear a Crystal/Wooden shield to avoid breaking oath.
  • Note: You can use 'Rage of the Beast' with this build as the Dragon Lord Charisma trance can be used raging. You may have Tactic DC trouble here not being Strength-based, make sure to pick them up with your extra fighter feats and get Stunning DC items.
Feats:
  • Heroic: (Quicken/Force of Personality/Your Choice), Natural Fighting x3, Precision, Power Critical, Weapon Specialization: Piercing
  • DL Extra: Thraxata's Instinct, Weapon Focus: Piercing, Tactical Training, Velah's Fury, Tactical Combatant, Tactical Master
  • Epic: Overwhelming Critical, Perfect Natural, Eerie Aim, Crush Weakness, Patience, Doublestrike, Scion of Arborea, Epic DR, Arcane Warrior (color spray counts, it is offensive now!), Epic Spell Focus: Illusion, Titan's Blood

Heroic Enhancements (suggested):
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On Fire Elemental w/ Acolyte of the Skin
Just making a note here for you fren because I also thought about this split at one point. In Heroics this will play fine, but in Epics your eldritch blast will not scale because taking the Epic pact and eb die feats requires minimum 12 levels of AoTS or Warlock. Elemental form requires minimum of 13 Druid.
Fiend Pact Eldritch Blast with Anger of the Noonday Sun does NOT strip fire immunity. You need to cast a DRUID fire spell first (yes I tested this).
Caster Levels do not affect Eldritch Blast at all. Therefore Fire form is not a great mix with Eldritch Blasting Warlock.
If you want to focus on Eldritch Blast while in animal form, more Warlock levels (probably 2/18 split) is the way to do it - though know that the Floating Enlightened Spirit form from Core 5 CANNOT be used while Wild Shaped as it is counted as a Major Transformation.

I played a Wolf/Feylockfrom 1-30 and it worked absolutely fine. It was fast, funny and did good damage. LOUD PUPPER ftw. Alternate AoTS fire version posted below ::

Concept 3 (for next life)
Lazor Bear (IMMA FIRING MAH LAZOR)
CHA based: 2 Drd/18 Wlk. Tiefling/Chaosmancer
Features:
  • Funny
  • Essentially plays like a normal warlock but you shoot lazors out your mouth and miss out on the juicy 30% Spell Crit Damage 20 captstone.
  • Tiefling or Chaosmancer (+1 lesser heart) for Fire Strip
Feats:
  • Heroics: Force of Personality, Empower, Maximize, Quicken, Enlarge, Spell Focus: Evocation, Improved Spell Focus: Evocation
  • Epic: Epic Eldritch Blast, Epic Pact Dice, Intensify, Epic Spell Power: Fire, Ruin, Channel Power, Greater Ruin, Crush Weakness

Enhancements (my choices but probably not ideal, play around with it!):
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Hope these at least gave you some ideas. If you wondering why I chose something feel free to ask.
Have fun!
 
droid327

droid327

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17 dru 3 dd. Lets you go full wis, evasion, still get L9 spells. GCS can use wis. Weapon selection is the only big drawback, you have few proficiencies and have to stay centered
 
PersonMan

PersonMan

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It was a sad day when they changed bear's normal spellcasting animation to a swipe. I do quite miss spitting out ball lightnings and so forth. At least Skybear can still yell at the sky.
 
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