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<blockquote data-quote="Spohedus" data-source="post: 8000955" data-attributes="member: 6868337"><p>In my experience, you will probably realize at certain levels that you can contribute much more to the party in caster form, even as a moon druid. You're still a full caster after all. Also I want to echo what a previous poster said; your low AC will get you shredded if you're really looking to be in wild shape for most of the adventuring day. The really interesting thing is all of the control and miscellaneous abilities you can adapt in different wild shape forms. I've seen our druid kill a hard-to-reach opponent by wild shaping into a giant spider and crawling up the wall for example, or using that same form for it's blind sight to attack an invisible enemy, or as a giant constrictor snake successfully grappling a very mobile enemy, thereby allowing effective focus fire and reducing the enemy's target choices. You are soaking up damage that would have otherwise gone to party HP pool. Still, you're never going to be close to a true tank like a barbarian or properly built fighter, paladin, or even ranger at mitigating damage consistently. </p><p></p><p>Combined with the caster choices of the druid, it's a very, very versatile swiss army knife build and can be very effective, but not without considering the rest of what the class offers. There will be levels that you thrive in wild shape and levels that you thrive as a caster and survive through wild shape when you're in jeopardy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spohedus, post: 8000955, member: 6868337"] In my experience, you will probably realize at certain levels that you can contribute much more to the party in caster form, even as a moon druid. You're still a full caster after all. Also I want to echo what a previous poster said; your low AC will get you shredded if you're really looking to be in wild shape for most of the adventuring day. The really interesting thing is all of the control and miscellaneous abilities you can adapt in different wild shape forms. I've seen our druid kill a hard-to-reach opponent by wild shaping into a giant spider and crawling up the wall for example, or using that same form for it's blind sight to attack an invisible enemy, or as a giant constrictor snake successfully grappling a very mobile enemy, thereby allowing effective focus fire and reducing the enemy's target choices. You are soaking up damage that would have otherwise gone to party HP pool. Still, you're never going to be close to a true tank like a barbarian or properly built fighter, paladin, or even ranger at mitigating damage consistently. Combined with the caster choices of the druid, it's a very, very versatile swiss army knife build and can be very effective, but not without considering the rest of what the class offers. There will be levels that you thrive in wild shape and levels that you thrive as a caster and survive through wild shape when you're in jeopardy. [/QUOTE]
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