The Buff of the Jungle is a buffering shifter specialized in Improved Elemental forms, he has all Druid and Cleric spells, with reasonable resistance to Dispels, he actually has so many buffs that a single Mords won't take them out, probably not even 2, he works best in low to mid magical environments, perm-haste armor would be perfect, but that's quite it, much higher items than that could be a problem.

The base idea is to use Divine Might and Divine Shield while shifted, but a dragon requires too much WIS investment to make it worthwile and a shifter couldn't get Monk in the recipe, which gives lots of power. In any case, the Buff of the Jungle shifted in Improved Earth Elemental form with Divine Might actually deals more damage than a fully buffed dragon (considering that Buff of the Jungle takes whatever cleric or druid buffs the dragon took), although his AB and AC won't be as good, still, pretty decent IMO.

Playable Levels: 1-40

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Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Race: Human

Status:
STR 13
DEX 8
CON 8
WIS 16 (20)
INT 13
CHA 16 (26)

1 Druid1 - Blind-Fight, Knockdown
2 Druid2
3 Druid3 - Power Attack
4 Druid4 - WIS +1 (17)
5 Druid5
6 Monk1 - Extend Spell
7 Cleric1 - Domains: Trickery and Travel
8 Cleric2 - WIS +1 (18)
9 Cleric3 - Divine Might
10 Druid6
11 Druid7
12 Cleric4 - WIS +1 (19), Divine Shield
13 Druid8
14 Druid9
15 Druid10 - Empower Spell
16 Druid11 - WIS +1 (20)
17 Druid12
18 Druid13 - Improved Critical: unarmed
19 Druid14
20 Druid15 - CHA +1 (17)
21 Druid16 - Weapon Finesse
22 Druid17
23 Druid18
24 Druid19 - CHA +1 (18), Epic Prowess
25 Druid20
26 Cleric5
27 Cleric6 - Armor Skin
28 Cleric7 - CHA +1 (19)
29 Cleric8
30 Cleric9 - Great CHA I (20)
31 Cleric10
32 Cleric11 - CHA +1(21)
33 Cleric12 - Great CHA II (22)
34 Cleric13
35 Cleric14
36 Cleric15 - CHA +1 (23), Great CHA III (24)
37 Cleric16
38 Cleric17
39 Cleric18 - Great CHA IV (25)
40 Monk2 - CHA +1 (26)

20% XP penalty starting at level 9

Travel taken in case there isn't perm-haste armor, as he is intended for low magical worlds, but that can be changed depending on the setting.

Skillpoints: 203
Discipline: 43
Concentration: 40
Listen: 40
Spellcraft: 40
Tumble: 40

HP: 280
AC: 24 (10 base -1 DEX, +5 WIS, +8 Tumble, +2 Armor Skin)
BAB: 24
AB: +26/+23/+20/+17/+14

As a small variant, you could take Monk until the end as a level 40 build and gain 1 AB.

Saving Throws:
Fortitude: 25
Reflex: 14
Will: 31

Spells (I-X):
Druid: 6/7/6/6/6/6/4/4/4/4
Cleric: 6/7/6/6/6/5/4/3/3/2
Monk: Almost

I won't write all the buffs he uses, all Cleric and Druid spells are available anyway, I'm sure he can cap WIS, STR and AB, with also several bonuses to AC, damage and all stats.
I don't like much short-term buffs (1 round/level or less), specially since I have to buff and then shift, but Divine Power, for example, would prove most useful giving 1 APR and +6 AB, and luckily Divine Might and Shield can be casted while shifted several times per day.

His main disadvantage is that he relies on buffs almost completely, unbuffed he's nothing special, although he has large amounts of buffs, he can still make some offensive spells, but don't expect powerful Implosion DC's, more like Creeping Doom, Firestorm, Storm of Vengeance or Harm, he has huge healing and good summoning capabilities, damage is very good, and he should be quite powerful in any low magical server.

-I'm not really sure how much Improved Elemental forms can breach DRs, if any...

Edited By FinneousPJ on 06/25/06 00:30

You should take Weapon Finesse for the Air Elemental form, IMO It has 34 DEX.
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Our aims self-same:
The Guest of Guests, friend Zarathustra, came!
The world now laughs, the grisly veil was torn,
And Light and Dark were one that wedding-morn." It's a very valid variant, since I have Divine Might for damage... but... I like big damages... anyway, it could get its uses from time to time, but, instead of what, IKD?
Quote: Posted 06/24/06 19:18:43 (GMT) -- Thaxll'ssyllia

It's a very valid variant, since I have Divine Might for damage... but... I like big damages... anyway, it could get its uses from time to time, but, instead of what, IKD?

That or IC. When you're shifted, IKD isn't so imporant since the elder elemental are actually the same size as dragons.
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"We keep our Feast of Feasts, sure of our bourne,
Our aims self-same:
The Guest of Guests, friend Zarathustra, came!
The world now laughs, the grisly veil was torn,
And Light and Dark were one that wedding-morn." I didn't know elder elementals were huge size... at least they don't have the annoying dragon actual size, so this guys actually fit everywhere.

Well, then... thanks for the suggestion. I guess I'll ask a mod to change it... but where to find one?

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How to choose a mod when there are so many to choose from?

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Finn! ok, then, supposing I don't need to make a moderator ritual summoning sacrifice (and since I'm already writing a reply), please change this:


21 Druid16 - Weapon Finesse
22 Druid17
23 Druid18
24 Druid19 - CHA +1 (18), Epic Prowess
25 Druid20
26 Cleric5
27 Cleric6 - Armor Skin


Thanks.

Edited By Thaxll'ssyllia on 06/24/06 20:26

You owe me one.
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"We keep our Feast of Feasts, sure of our bourne,
Our aims self-same:
The Guest of Guests, friend Zarathustra, came!
The world now laughs, the grisly veil was torn,
And Light and Dark were one that wedding-morn." Oh well, good, I thought it might be more than one by now... but... and not that I'm complaining or anything, but you edited wrong the changes should substitute the levels... but the previous didn't get erased.
Quote: Posted 06/25/06 00:26:25 (GMT) -- Thaxll'ssyllia

Oh well, good, I thought it might be more than one by now... but... and not that I'm complaining or anything, but you edited wrong the changes should substitute the levels... but the previous didn't get erased.


Damn, I though I had highlighted the old levels when I pasted. I'll fix it
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"We keep our Feast of Feasts, sure of our bourne,
Our aims self-same:
The Guest of Guests, friend Zarathustra, came!
The world now laughs, the grisly veil was torn,
And Light and Dark were one that wedding-morn."
Quote: Posted 06/24/06 18:43:22 (GMT) -- Thaxll'ssyllia

6 Monk1 - Extend Spell

Can you take metamagic feats on non-caster levels? Yes you can, you only need to fill the pre-requisites beforehand with a caster class, I don't remember exactly, but for Extended spell I think you only need to be able to cast level 2 spells or something like that, which is attained with 5 Druid levels.

Lack of comments on the build BTW...