Kurotowa
Legend
Given the popularity of subclasses like Beast Barbarian, and characters like Doric in the Honor Among Thieves movie, maybe there's room for a more dedicated option. I'm not quite sure how you could make an entire class, with multiple subclasses, out of a shapechanger concept. But trying to bolt it onto the existing classes keeps running into barriers of clashing mechanics and limited power budget.Considering that the druid originally gained wild shape at 7th level and only 3/day, I'd say the shapechanging element has been overblown. It should be a caster first and shapechanger second.
In Druid discussion that isn't about Wildshape, I'm looking at the spells changes. And I say to myself, "They doubled Produce Flame's range, they made the scaling on Cure Wounds good enough it'd actually be worth upcasting, all those extra healing dice would work well with the Healer feat's new "reroll 1's" trait... that all makes Wildfire Druid suddenly a lot more attractive."