Earth Shaker
"My strength is the strength of the earth. There is no shame in your falling, but you would be foolish to attempt to rise."
Prerequisite: WardenRegardless of the combat tricks you have learned during your adventuring career and the tactics with which you have surprised your enemies, a part of you yearns for direct and uncomplicated applications of might. The path of the earth shaker appeals to you because it matches strength to strength—your mastery of weapons augmented by the power of the earth beneath your feet, working together to oppose the raw might of dragons and behemoths, demons and deities.
The strength of earth that you draw on allows you to move through the ground at speed, even as your attacks bypass an opponent's armor to strike at the body within. Your connection to the natural world allows you to seek out targets behind obstacles or even within the ground, and your attacks can knock your foes down.
Leave the subtleties of strategy and complex tactics to others. Instead, you keep faith with the oldest spirits of rock and earth, letting their grim determination guide you in your mission to defend the world from forces that would despoil it.
EARTH SHAKER PATH FEATURES
Full Impact (11th level): You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls against Fortitude.Surging Earth (11th level): When you spend an action point to take an extra action while you are in guardian form, each enemy you hit with a primal attack power before the end of your next turn is knocked prone.
Certain Gravity (16th level): Your at-will warden attacks can target Fortitude instead of AC.
Shake the EarthEarth Shaker Attack 11
Your attack emits a pulse of thunder that strikes around obstacles and can wrench burrowing creatures from the ground.
Encounter ✦ Primal, Thunder, Weapon
Standard Action Close burst 4
Target: Each enemy in the burst
Special: Solid obstacles do not block line of effect for the burst.
Attack: Strength vs. Fortitude
Hit: 2[W] + Strength modifier thunder damage. If the target is burrowing, you slide it 4 squares to the square nearest to it that is within your line of effect.
Tread the EarthEarth Shaker Utility 12
You dive within the earth and move through it quickly, gaining advantage over unsuspecting enemies.
Encounter ✦ Primal
Move Action Personal
Effect: You burrow twice your speed. Each enemy adjacent to you at the end of your move grants combat advantage to you until the end of your next turn.
Form of the Primeval BuletteEarth Shaker Attack 20
You take on the armored form of the monstrous bulette, granting you increased vitality and allowing you to burrow through the earth.
Daily ✦ Healing, Polymorph, Primal
Minor Action Personal
Effect: You assume the guardian form of the primeval bulette until the end of the encounter. While you are in this form, you gain a burrow speed equal to your speed and a +3 bonus to Fortitude. In addition, whenever you spend a healing surge, you regain 20 additional hit points.
Once during this encounter, you can use the Form of the Primeval Bulette Attack power while you are in this form.
Form of the Primeval Bulette Attack
You take on the armored form of the monstrous bulette, granting you increased vitality and allowing you to burrow through the earth.
Encounter ✦ Healing, Polymorph, Primal
Standard Action Close burst 2
Effect: Before the attack, you burrow your speed. You must burrow at least 2 squares.
Target: Each creature in the burst
Attack: Strength + 4 vs. Fortitude
Level 26: Strength + 6 vs. Fortitude
Hit: 3d8 + Strength modifier damage, and you knock the target prone. If the target is already prone, it takes ongoing 5 damage (save ends).
Miss: Half damage, and you knock the target prone.
Requirement: The power Form of the Primeval Bulette must be active in order to use this power.
Published in Primal Power, page(s) 108.