Best Sea campaign druid companion?

[zauriel56]

I'm joining a sea campaign as a druid and it starts at level 10. I checked the druid handbook but there weren't any aquatic companions listed so I was wondering what was recommended.

[Demelain]

Stormwrack has a list of aquatic Druid companions on page 50, along with an alternative class feature for Woodland Stride which you may or may not find useful.
By level:
First: barracuda, eel, porpoise, sea snake (small or medium), shark (medium), sea lion, seal, snapping turtle, squid, stingray
Fourth: Dire eel, sea snake (large)
Seventh: Dire barracuda, elasmosaurus, sea snake (huge)
Tenth: Shark (huge), orca whale

Some of the creatuee are in the monster manual, other are in Stormwrack.

[zauriel56]

Well I know those are listed there I was just wondering what the most optimized would be for a druid.

[Gavinfoxx]

Elasmosaurus is surprisingly underrated!  RAARRR

[Karlton]

I would probably use a Water Elemental companion from Complete Mage. It is fast, intelligent, speaks, and therefore able to carry out complex tasks on demand. Also, a lot easier to feed than a huge dinosaur.

[Vampireshado]

Well let me start by reposting something I posted earlier:

If you believe in variant class feature chaining (as you should since it's not at all overpowering  ) you can make a more martial focused druid by taking druidic avenger (Lose: Animal Companion, Spontaneous Summoning spells, -4 Wild Empathy Checks. Gain: Fast Movement (as Barbarian), Rage (as Barbarian), Tireless Rage (as Barbarian))

and the other UA druid variant (Lose: Armor and shield proficiency, wild shape (all versions). Gain: Bonus to Armor Class when unarmored (as monk, including Wisdom bonus to AC)*, fast movement (as monk), favored enemy (as ranger), swift tracker (as ranger), Track (as ranger))

then the Barbarian variant (Lose: Rage and tireless rage. Gain: Favored enemy (as ranger); archery combat style, improved archery combat style, and archery combat style mastery (as ranger).

then the Ranger variant (Lose: Combat style, improved combat style, combat style mastery. Gain: Wild shape (as druid; Small or Medium animals only), fast movement (as barbarian))

and the Trap Expert Ranger variant (Lose: Track, Swift Tracker. Gain: Trapfinding, Disable Device as Class Skill)

Then after fifth take levels of master of many forms to regain your full wild shape awesomeness. Then you have a frontline, martial, sneaky, face-like, healing, super druid. Has full druid spellcasting, rogue trapfinding, and a ton of martial capability.

I realized that is not what you asked for, but I was never into animal companions so I thought I'd share.

I'm not quite sure how the elemental companion works, but if it doesn't gimp the elemental too much then I second the water elemental idea if you want to keep a companion. Water elementals can be sick when actually in the water.