Dragon Angel: 31Druid, 6DD, 3Monk

[ZeroGravitySE]

Build: 31Druid, 6DD, 3Monk
Race: Dwarf
Subrace: Aasimar or Fallen Angel
Level Progression: 10Druid, 6Dwarven Defender, 2Monk, 2Druid, 19Druid, 1Monk
Alignment: Lawful Nuetral (THIS IS A MUST!)


Dwarf/Aasimar/Fallen Angel
Stats:
STR: 12 (12) (12)
DEX: 13 (13) (13)
CON: 11 (11) (12)
INT: 12 (12) (14)
WIS: 18 (20) (BASE17=22)
Cha: 06 (08) (10)

Skills (Must Have): Animal Empathy, Concentration, Discipline, Spellcraft, Tumble

Pre-Epic Feats:
-Toughness
-Dodge
-Combat Casting
-Spell Penetration
-Greater Spell Penetration
-Blind-Fight
-Weapon Proficiency (Exotic)

Pre-Epic Free Feats:
Animal Companion, Armor Proficiency (Heavy, Light, Medium), Battle Training vs. (Goblins, Giants, Orcs), Cleave, Darkvision, Defensive Awareness (2), Defensive Stance, Deflect Arrows, Dwarven Defender Damage Reduction, Evasion, Favored Enemy: Outsiders, Flurry of Blows, Hardiness vs. Poisons, Hardiness vs. Spells, Improved Unarmed Strike, Monk AC Bonus, Nature Sense, Resist Nature's Lure, Shield Proficiency, Skill Affinity (Lore), Stonecunning, Stunning Fist, Trackless Step, Venom Immunity, Weapon Proficiency (Druid, Martial, Monk, Simple), Wild Shape (4x/day), Woodland Stride

PRE-EPIC STATS: ALL WISDOM

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Epic Feats:
-Epic Spell Penetration
-Improved Combat Casting
-Great Wisdom I
-Great Wisdom II
-Dragon Shape (lvl32)
-Epic Reflexes
-Armor Skin
-Great Wisdom III
-Epic Prowess

Epic Free Feats:
Epic Character, Wild Shape, Monk Speed, Still Mind

EPIC STATS: ALL WISDOM

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Legendary Level Feats:
-LL Spell Penetration
-Weapon Focus: Creature
-Epic Weapon Focus: Creature
-Great Wisdom IV
-Great Wisdom V
-Great Wisdom VI
-Great Wisdom VII (or something else to even wis out)

LL STATS = ALL WISDOM



====@lvl40====
[[Out Dragon Form]] (No Armor/Weapon)
AB: +28/+25/+22/+19/+16/+13
Fort: 26
Reflex: 24
Will: 37
Base Attack 26

w/Defensive Stance
AB: +29/+26/+23/+20/+17/+14
Fort: 30
Reflex 26
Will: 39


[[In Dragon Form]] (No Armor/Weapon)
AB: +46/+43/+40/+37/+34/+31
Fort: 37
Reflex: 36
Will: 37
Base Attack 26

w/Defensive Stance
AB: +47/+44/+41/+38/+35/+32
Fort: 41
Reflex: 38
Will: 39

Dragon HP (@40): 916/816 (Naked)
Dragon AC (@40): 62 (Naked)

Regular HP (@40): 292/292 (Naked)
Regular AC (@40): 30 (Naked)



*I came up with this build in my sleep, let me know what I could do to improve on it or is it flawless? My builds never are, so comments are very welcome!


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**ZeroGravitySE's Build History & Information**
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Current "Hell" Builds
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Expired Builds/Under Construction
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The HG Cleric Caster: 38Cleric, 1Fighter, 1Monk
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The HG Wizard Caster: 40 Wizard *Updated*
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Evil Red Dragon: 1Bard, 9Fighter, 30RDD
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Evil Red Dragon II: 7Bard, 7WM, 24RDD
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Evil Red Dragon III: 2Bard, 18Rogue, 20RDD
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Pixie Monk: 20Monk, 13COT, 7WM
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The Lonely Bard: 10ShadowDancer, 30Bard
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Dragon Angel: 31Druid, 6DD, 3Monk
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[FunkySwerve]

Fewer druid levels. A lot less, for any dragon-focused druid build. Though these days you might be better off making a shifter...
Funky

[mishimayukio]

You still want at least 25 druid for the illusion epic spell though, it helps dragonshape immensely.

[ZeroGravitySE]

I was trying to think of the best middle ground build for a dragon build, but still have great defense for a caster and enough spell levels to actually be able to do some dmg. Use the book to get illusion epic?

I'm thinking you can solo anywhere with this build, with the right gear of course? I don't know what the stats would be @ 60 with the best gear possible? I'd love to know that!!!! =/ =(

Whats the highest AB possible for a dragon build?

[sabregirl]

Well it takes a minumum of 18 levels of druid to get dragon form. If you're looking to max your AB maybe go 19 fighter (all pre epic)/ 3 monk 18 druid. I've seen somone wit a build like that and it seemed . . okay but nothing spectacular. Thing is why bother trying to max dragon AB when the breath weapon is considerably more powerful when you consider it being a large area of effect and capable of doing hundreds of points of damage, at high levels, to a considerable number of mobs at once. With few druid levels, your breath weapon won't hit much of anything. Also dragon form can be irritatingly large and is completely useless in a lot of areas. It's good but I don't think it's really worth building around these days. I think it just makes decent addition to a caster druid with at least one monk level - but only as a last resort since tranforming wipes spell slots!

I'm with Funky . . . just build a shifter

You get a dragon with a great breath weapon plus all the other useful abilities.

-S

[ZeroGravitySE]

The whole point behind the build is to have a spell caster, who can shapechange, not wear druid gear for those extra slots, so you won't lose anything while transforming, but your wearing good gear to protect yourself and to enhance dragon form. I wanted the best AB Possible with the lowest ammount of DD. I wanted DD because at level 6, u keep your dex bonus even when flat footed, and u get defensive stance along with dmg reduction, which is hotness. The 3 monk was so u get evasion and all that other good stuff. I threw in the 3rd monk level for the speed, u could if u wanted too, do this progression for better ab by +1:
10Druid, 7Dwarven Defender, 1Monk, 2Druid, 19Druid, 1Monk

I personally like the build and the whole DD thing.

[sabregirl]

Well if you want to just build a purely defensive dragon, I think it might be nicer to figure out some way to work epic dodge into the build. Having 25 dex AND 30 wis is rather steep - not sure you could pull it off with anything other than a UR subrace or do it before LL. But if you could potentially make yourself a pretty good monk with some buff spells and a crazy dragon backup plan One thing is, I'm pretty sure dragon form by itself has a fair quantity of damage reduction so I'm not sure how much 6 levels of DD are going to help you DR wise. Defensive stance is attractive though . . .

-S

[ZeroGravitySE]

level 31 druid buff spells is nice =)

[doomsdaybringer]

sabregirl said:

Well it takes a minumum of 18 levels of druid to get dragon form. If you're looking to max your AB maybe go 19 fighter (all pre epic)/ 3 monk 18 druid. I've seen somone wit a build like that and it seemed . . okay but nothing spectacular. Thing is why bother trying to max dragon AB when the breath weapon is considerably more powerful when you consider it being a large area of effect and capable of doing hundreds of points of damage, at high levels, to a considerable number of mobs at once. With few druid levels, your breath weapon won't hit much of anything. Also dragon form can be irritatingly large and is completely useless in a lot of areas. It's good but I don't think it's really worth building around these days. I think it just makes decent addition to a caster druid with at least one monk level - but only as a last resort since tranforming wipes spell slots!

I'm with Funky . . . just build a shifter

You get a dragon with a great breath weapon plus all the other useful abilities.

-S

i am petty sure you only need 14 lvl of druid.. like 95% or krown plus 3 other guys must being hacking HG for the paste one or two year....plus i got a lvl 14 druid with dragon shape on bastion pvp

[FunkySwerve]

Aye, you only need 14. I'm inclined to disagree with mish about the veil of mists, granted the recent changes to barkskin. If you go that route, you might as well nearly max out druid levels and use barkskin instead. Veil is a more distinct advantage for fullout caster druids in that it will allow them to use amulets without nat ac bonuses (forthcoming, for the most part) and still get 20 nat ac. My understanding was that you wanted a part caster-part meleer, in which case I would go 1 monk 14 druid rest your choice.
Funky

[sabregirl]

Another instance of the book being wrong - who'd have thunk it!

Apparently you can also get some of the shifter epic forms without a single level of shifter . . .

-S