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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 6406421" data-attributes="member: 807">To add my own personal moon Druid play experience to this....(as a level 2 moon Druid)Basically, you find yourself with three potentials.... Not wild shaping ( so you can cast spells, like cure spells...) wild shaping into a combat form, or wild shaping in to a scouting/spying form.Wild shaping is a limited resource. So using it as combat form meant I couldn't scout as much. Not being able to cast spells while wild shaped was a huge issue for our group. And the one time I was a bear, despite having so many hp, my ac was so low I was hit every single round by multiple people to the point where my other hp were whittled away after a couple roundsAnd frankly, at 2nd level we were fighting a bunch of kobold minions and thier leader. I could one shot kill a kobold with shillelaghs. Wild shaping to brown bear just meant I was one shot killing two kobolds a round instead of oneLater when we could have used a scout, I couldn't be as helpful with that since my wild shape uses were expended by then.So overall, I don't disagree that changing in to a brown bear is a strong combat choice, but it is a limited resource , reducing chances to use wild shape for other things later, and removing your active spell casting ability, and as a brown bear you are vulnerable with the low ac earning your form isn't going to last all encounter long unless you get lucky and/or have other strong front line party members to divert some of the damage.Others in the party were able to stay more consistent in thier capabilities and no one else at my table really saw the Druid as stealing the spotlight or overshadowing everyone else.Anyway that Is my experience so far</blockquote>

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