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Message: <blockquote data-quote="avatarolt" data-source="post: 1281169" data-attributes="member: 12646">Yes...but he's affected by a myriad of animal-only spells which can have a tendancy to be meaner.But in 3.5e, they didn't throw in the part about no change in hitpoints -- you're right in that it was in there for 3.0 though.  It's a pretty powerful un-nerfing...wouldn't be surprised if it went back again after whatever updates they plan to do for their next version.Once you pick up Animal Growth and Flamestrike, you should have at least 3 "attack forms", if you want to think of it in terms of lumbering mecha that have nothing to do with the topic at hand (Transformers!  More than meets the eye!)You *should* have a set of spells for "blasting" -- Creeping Cold (consider extending)-Call Lightning Storm-Flamestrike...I tend to use these spells in combats where I need to deliver heavy damage but don't want to risk wading into combat.There's a second set of spells for melee -- Bull's Strength, Bear's Endurance, Barkskin, Animal Growth -- yeah, you should share them all with your animal companion and the two of you should be wailing together.The third set is pretty simple -- cat's grace/produce flame/small high-dex critter wildshape = another party archer.The beauty of the druid is that the more experienced you get, the more *options* become viable.  Even if you have a standardized set of spells you memorize, you should be able to fit 2-4 options in there by 9th level. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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