Give aspect of the bear's natural attack +1 ab

[bobofwestoregonusa]

Heya! I thought it was a little odd that even if I was enchanted my rage made me weaker, and actually lowered my ab if I was enchanted. As of right now using rage doesn't really make you stronger. In fact if you have magic weapon your ab goes down by 1.

Maybe beefing their attack bonus up a bit with modifiers and ab for piercing daage reduction would be nice.

[Pentaxius]

You can drink blur to bypass +1 DR. Stoneskin to bypass +5 DR. That said, the perk could really use a little love on the side. I really liked Kinslayer's suggestion of AoE fear on shapeshift.

Could be implemented as such : On shift, AoE cast scare. DC 10+Cha mod+class level/2. It's both thematic and fun, and adds a tactical layer to the form making the class a bit more than drink pot, rage, and bash.  

[bobofwestoregonusa]

You can drink blur to bypass +1 DR. Stoneskin to bypass +5 DR. That said, the perk could really use a little love on the side. I really liked Kinslayer's suggestion of AoE fear on shapeshift.

Could be implemented as such : On shift, AoE cast scare. DC 10+Cha mod+class level/2. It's both thematic and fun, and adds a tactical layer to the form making the class a bit more than drink pot, rage, and bash.

Wot? I didn't know that! Okay that's pretty interesting.

[SemStar]

Creature weapons can bypass DR equal to the level of DR you yourself have, this is why for instance the Sharks in a certain underwater quest bypass -/2 DR

[bobofwestoregonusa]

So after some thought I think the only suggestion I have to make bear more viable is to allow it to merge the weapon held with it's creature weapon. This would allow aspect to do more damage by raging instead of losing magic weapon and any elemental that comes with spells and make the rage much more considerable despite its significant drop in ac and defense in general.

Right now if I rage when I'm buffed up I do considerably less damage because I lose all my weapon buffs, but if weapons merged the rage would be an offensive upgrade while still not being much to write home about defensively.

That said I actively play the class so take what I say with a grain of salt until my character finally dies. But if nothing else is done to this perk I think making the bear's weapon merge would make it much more viable than it currently is because it only gains at about 40 hp give or take at level 8 for the average build while losing all of it's ac and damage.

Thanks for reading this if you have.