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Improved Natural Attack

Improved Natural Attack is a Feat that will increase the damage to 1d6. It's not a great return on investment, but it does exactly what you want. You won't qualify for it until level 8+ because it requires +4 BAB or higher.

Note that this is a "Monster Feat"; usually, this isn't a problem because they're not officially restricted to player characters, but some GM's might do so anyway.

Other Feats

Rending Claws gives an extra 1d6 damage to your second successful claw attack in a round.
Possessed Hand provides +1 insight to hit and damage at the cost of -2 to Concentration checks.
Mother's Gift, if you are a changeling (which fits the class archetype), provides an untyped +1 to hit and damage with claws.
Eldritch Claws causes your claws to overcome DR/magic and DR/silver.

Typical damage increases

Besides the obvious handwrapsnecklace of mighty blows and general party buffs (eg bardic courage, etc), a common way to boost your own damage is increasing the size and effective size of your attack. You can only benefit from one of each type of effect at a time. Here are the most common options for those:

Enlarge Person (witch 1 etc.), Steal Size (witch 2, etc.) Legendary Proportions (witch 7, etc.), and others increase you and your claws' actual size by 1 or more steps.
Strong Jaw (druid/hunter/ranger), despite its name, increases the effective size of any natural attack by 2 die steps (1d4 becomes 1d8; 1d6 becomes 1d10).

Combining both effects will grant you 2d6 damage (2d8 with Improved Natural Attack) on your claws (and may give you a greater size bonus to Strength than your Hunched Muscle feature, at some levels).

Improved Natural Attack

Note that this is a "Monster Feat"; usually, this isn't a problem because they're not officially restricted to player characters, but some GM's might do so anyway.

Other Feats

Rending Claws gives an extra 1d6 damage to your second successful claw attack in a round.
Possessed Hand provides +1 insight to hit and damage at the cost of -2 to Concentration checks.
Mother's Gift, if you are a changeling (which fits the class archetype), provides an untyped +1 to hit and damage with claws.
Eldritch Claws causes your claws to overcome DR/magic and DR/silver.

Typical damage increases

Besides the obvious handwraps of mighty blows and general party buffs (eg bardic courage, etc), a common way to boost your own damage is increasing the size and effective size of your attack. You can only benefit from one of each type of effect at a time. Here are the most common options for those:

Enlarge Person (witch 1 etc.), Steal Size (witch 2, etc.) Legendary Proportions (witch 7, etc.), and others increase you and your claws' actual size by 1 or more steps.
Strong Jaw (druid/hunter/ranger), despite its name, increases the effective size of any natural attack by 2 die steps (1d4 becomes 1d8; 1d6 becomes 1d10).

Combining both effects will grant you 2d6 damage (2d8 with Improved Natural Attack) on your claws (and may give you a greater size bonus to Strength than your Hunched Muscle feature, at some levels).

Improved Natural Attack

Note that this is a "Monster Feat"; usually, this isn't a problem because they're not officially restricted to player characters, but some GM's might do so anyway.

Other Feats

Rending Claws gives an extra 1d6 damage to your second successful claw attack in a round.
Possessed Hand provides +1 insight to hit and damage at the cost of -2 to Concentration checks.
Mother's Gift, if you are a changeling (which fits the class archetype), provides an untyped +1 to hit and damage with claws.
Eldritch Claws causes your claws to overcome DR/magic and DR/silver.

Typical damage increases

Besides the obvious necklace of mighty blows and general party buffs (eg bardic courage, etc), a common way to boost your own damage is increasing the size and effective size of your attack. You can only benefit from one of each type of effect at a time. Here are the most common options for those:

Enlarge Person (witch 1 etc.), Steal Size (witch 2, etc.) Legendary Proportions (witch 7, etc.), and others increase you and your claws' actual size by 1 or more steps.
Strong Jaw (druid/hunter/ranger), despite its name, increases the effective size of any natural attack by 2 die steps (1d4 becomes 1d8; 1d6 becomes 1d10).

Combining both effects will grant you 2d6 damage (2d8 with Improved Natural Attack) on your claws (and may give you a greater size bonus to Strength than your Hunched Muscle feature, at some levels).

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Improved Natural Attack

Note that this is a "Monster Feat"; usually, this isn't a problem because they're not officially restricted to player characters, but some GM's might do so anyway.

Other Feats

Rending Claws gives an extra 1d6 damage to your second successful claw attack in a round.
Possessed Hand provides +1 insight to hit and damage at the cost of -2 to Concentration checks.
Mother's Gift, if you are a changeling (which fits the class archetype), provides an untyped +1 to hit and damage with claws.
Eldritch Claws causes your claws to overcome DR/magic and DR/silver.

Typical damage increases

Enlarge Person (witch 1 etc.), Steal Size (witch 2, etc.) Legendary Proportions (witch 7, etc.), and others increase you and your claws' actual size by 1 or more steps.
Strong Jaw (druid/hunter/ranger), despite its name, increases the effective size of any natural attack by 2 die steps (1d4 becomes 1d8; 1d6 becomes 1d10).

Combining both effects will grant you 2d6 damage (2d8 with Improved Natural Attack) on your claws (and may give you a greater size bonus to Strength than your Hunched Muscle feature, at some levels).