Natural Armor

[Ezekiel_NL]

What would be the best way to boost the natural armor bonus  by spells or magical items?

I will be playing a warrior-priest in a new adventure.


Thanks


Ezekiel

[snakeman830]

What limitations do you have?  That said, Bite of the Werebear is an excellent one to have cast on you by a friendly Druid/Wizard.  +7 natural armor and as an extra bonus, you get +16 Str, +2Dex, +8(?)Con, claw attacks, a bite attack, Power Attack, and Blind Fight.

[Ezekiel_NL]

What limitations do you have?  That said, Bite of the Werebear is an excellent one to have cast on you by a friendly Druid/Wizard.  +7 natural armor and as an extra bonus, you get +16 Str, +2Dex, +8(?)Con, claw attacks, a bite attack, Power Attack, and Blind Fight.

Thanks for the tip. I'll have the party wizard look into it if he would like to learn this spell for me.

I have few limitations. We are playing a 10th level party and im able to cast 4th level divine spells. Most books are allowed or otherwise in debatable.

[bearsarebrown]

Polymorph.

[Ezekiel_NL]

Polymorph.

Thanks. Could be an option, but unlikely for me to get polymorphed.

[snakeman830]

What limitations do you have?  That said, Bite of the Werebear is an excellent one to have cast on you by a friendly Druid/Wizard.  +7 natural armor and as an extra bonus, you get +16 Str, +2Dex, +8(?)Con, claw attacks, a bite attack, Power Attack, and Blind Fight.

Thanks for the tip. I'll have the party wizard look into it if he would like to learn this spell for me.

I have few limitations. We are playing a 10th level party and im able to cast 4th level divine spells. Most books are allowed or otherwise in debatable.

That one is a Druid 6,Sorc/Wiz 7 spell, so it will be a level or 3 before it comes on the scene.  There are, however, lower-level Bite of the X spells that also grant impressive bonuses.  They can all be found in Spell Compendium.

[CyMage]

I believe all the Bite spells are Personal range so unless you can cast it yourself/UMD you're out of luck for the most part.

[raith0]

you can be an archivist and cast it as well in a few short levels.  and you can still get a warrior priest feel to the character

[The_Mad_Linguist]

Outsider type + shapechange domain + alter self for dwarf ancestor?

[Rooster]

There's also a spell called Scintilating Scales that converts NA into Deflection, which helps against touch attacks. It's in one of the dragon-related books, I can't remember which one.

[CyMage]

you can be an archivist and cast it as well in a few short levels.  and you can still get a warrior priest feel to the character

Indeed, but since there was not much information about the build, I wanted to make sure.

[Bozwevial]

There's also a spell called Scintilating Scales that converts NA into Deflection, which helps against touch attacks. It's in one of the dragon-related books, I can't remember which one.

It should be in the Spell Compendium too.

[Ezekiel_NL]

Thanks guys for the tips.

[telehax]

Draconomicon. Its in the draconomicon.

[Bozwevial]

Draconomicon. Its in the draconomicon.

That version gives you a deflection bonus to AC equal to your Con modifier, but subtracts half as much from your natural armor bonus and only lasts one round/CL. The Spell Compendium version just changes your natural armor bonus into a deflection bonus and lasts one minute/CL.

[Aliment]

The Tortle race (from Dragon, something about savage coast) has +3 Natural AC and is LA 0 race.  The Crucian is LA+2 and provides +8 Natural AC.

For spells there is always the obvious Barkskin spell.  I've played a Tortle druid before, and its a very hard guy to kill (+2 wis also).

[Redeemer of Ogar]

I'm a fan of using Alter Self to become a Tren (lizardfolk variant from Serpent Kingdoms), for +8NA, but that's wizard/sorc.  Ask these guys what the best way is to get it on your list. 

[Sinfire Titan]

Shape Soulmeld (Wormtail Belt) is a +2 or +3 bonus to Nat Armor. Combine with Soul Boon (2nd level Cleric Spell) to get up to +6/+7 from the belt for a 2nd level spell slot and a feat.

[Bauglir]

If you have crazy feats to spare, getting Bind Vestige and Practiced Binder for Dahlver-Nar gives you 1/2 your Con score as a Natural Armor bonus (and, incidentally, immunity to getting your Wisdom score lowered, basically). Alternatively, a class level, but you've not listed that as possible so it's probably not really applicable.