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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RogueJK" data-source="post: 124051" data-attributes="member: 170">With Reincarnate, you don't get a choice as to what your new body will be.  Yes, you could come back as a Wolf, and get lots of great stat bonuses, but there's also a chance that you could come back as an Owl, Hawk, Sprite, or any number of other creatures that would severely hamper your abilities.  Using equipment and casting spells while in your natural form, if it's not humanoid, will be extremely hard.The stat increases would only help you if you stayed in your natural form, though.  When you Wild Shape into a different form, you assume the physical ability scores of your new form, which replace whatever your scores were before.  If you become an Elf, for example, you get the default physical ability scores for an Elf from the MM.  That's Str 10, Dex 13, Con 8.Also, when a Druid Wild Shapes into an alternate form, all of their equipment melds into the new form.  You could become a Human, but all of your equipment would be unusable until you regained your natural form.Plus, and probably most importantly, a regular Druid can't Wild Shape into a Humanoid form.  They are restricted to animals only at first, and then dire animals and elementals at higher levels.  A Shifter could, though, and they get to control which pieces of equipment meld into their new shape, but the stat issue remains.  And a Shifter gives up 10 levels of spell progression to be able to do that.  That's a pretty big hit for a spellcaster.</blockquote>

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