Clint_L
Legend
It didn't work at certain levels.I always figured the 5e design team tried to balance the druid using the metal restriction to eliminate some of the obvious ways of boosting AC, on the theory that the enormous amount of temp HP granted by wolf shape needed to be offset by making the non-wild-shaped druid easier to hit.
It didn’t work, but I assumed that’s what they tried to do.
If you test survivability of a 2014 moon druid against other types of tanks, it really fluctuates. It's absurd at level 2 for example. Then it declines each level. Then it spikes again when they get elemental forms. Then it declines each level. Then it is just stupidly broken at level 20.
The concept of a tank that relies almost purely on high HP is not inherently bad. I kind of like it, because it's different, and it's fun to take insane amounts of damage and keep standing. It's the execution that is problematic in this case. If there was a proper linear progression, it would work. The latest iteration gives it linear progression, though I haven't tested it to see how it holds up in practice. It'll certainly be much weaker than the current version. I'll post some math later to compare.