Btw, alternate form gives nice bonusses, but the bite druid buffs do the same. :S Sure it lasts shorter, but you keep all your stuff, casting etc. (btw, then tiger is better, cause bear gives 25% spell failure)
Playing a lvl 9 shifter drd right now. :) Pretty cool, I'm the strongest tank in the party right now. It's so much fun to use bite of the weretiger, animal spirit and shifting. Normally I would have str 20 (24 with spirit), but it goes to 40 in one round. 44 when I get werebear. And the +9 nat...