Third run was with a Sylvan Sorcerer but I only finished the Prologue so far.
How am I supposed to beat these encounters when the C still needs like two or three levels to get going? Is is just me or am I too stupid for this game if I am already struggling at the very beginning?
What difficulty are you playing? In any case remember that low level DnD is lethal as hell. You are a bad roll of being crited to death in the first 3 levels.
To mitigate that you need to be aware of a couple of things:
First, due to the mechanics of 3.5/Pathfinder you need to pile bonus upon bonus to your rolls. While two bonus of the same type don't usually stack (but in some cases they do) between morale, luck, circumstance, armor, weapon, etc., etc. you can have a very large bonus to your roll. Therefore it pays to specialize in something (attack, defense, skill checks) than try to make a jack of all trades character.
Second, try to improve your odds by familiarizing with the system and the game. Read the in-game encyclopedia especially. Be familiar with all the scrolls, potions and wands, try it in combat (although using those when you are in melee gives your enemies attacks of opportunity. Either use them before or after combat, or by your backline). Scout the encounters, send the character with the highest stealth ahead to inspect the enemies ( Keep the inspect button, the eye on the left panel, on at all times). When you do see their stats, defense, attack and specials (you need Lore: Nature and knowledge: World in the first chapter) plan accordingly, like using spells or attacks against their lowest defense.
Went pure Druid since Defender of the True World does not get spontaneous summoning (any more?) Druid was the class I wanted to play in the first place, but everywhere in the forums I was told they are bad.
They are retards. Unless you are playing in the highest difficulty you don't need a ultra-optimized, min-maxed character Monk 1/knife master 1/Vivi whatever. I played a Defender of the True World druid and wasn't bad at all. Even as a primarily caster build you can off-tank (shield and scimitar) when needed (in challenging) and your pet is quite capable of tanking or damage dealing. Really, at least in your first levels it's your pet who must do most of the fighting and it's when you need more people the most. It's true that First (and somewhat second) level druid spells are underwhelming but you are an area crowd controller, buffer and utility rather than direct attacker.UFor the first to levels use primarily Magic Fang on your pet with the occasionally acid maw, the rest are circumstantial. Except Entangle, fuck entangle or at least use this
MOD. Remeber that summoning is quite powerful, in a pinch a even a Mite could make a nice meat shield (or make you flank a target). You can spontaneously summon (use it)
