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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8949469" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>Both? Yeah, both. Their approach annoys me, and feels like it goes too far in a frustrating direction, and the specifics of their approach are just... terrible.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>See, I'd be more willing to accept this except for two things</p><p></p><p>1) In the entirety of the Druid base class and the Moon Druid subclass, there are a total of 16 features (skipping feats and the epic feat), out of those sixteen features five of them do not deal with Wild Shape. That is 70% of the class features going towards a single use of a single ability. </p><p></p><p>This would be like clerics have 11 features that focus exclusively on Turn Undead. </p><p></p><p>And what are these five features? Druidic (Useless), Spellcasting, Two other uses for the same resource (Blossoms which are terribly underpowered, and the Familar with is superior to most uses of Wildshape), A recharge for the Resource you can use for Wild shape, Alter Self at will at level 14 (pretty much useless) </p><p></p><p>2) We have no indication from this UA that other uses of Channel Nature are currently on the Table. We can assume so, but since the Base Class focuses nearly all its energy on Wild Shape, the question will constantly be if the subclass features are worth the loss of the main focus of the entire class</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But it is the illusion of stuff. Aquatic and Aerial form aren't new, they are actually coming later than they used to. Going tiny used to be a thing you could do immediately, now they've pulled it out. They filled out the chart by breaking a single ability into multiple abilities, which... isn't a direction I want to encourage?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8949469, member: 6801228"] Both? Yeah, both. Their approach annoys me, and feels like it goes too far in a frustrating direction, and the specifics of their approach are just... terrible. See, I'd be more willing to accept this except for two things 1) In the entirety of the Druid base class and the Moon Druid subclass, there are a total of 16 features (skipping feats and the epic feat), out of those sixteen features five of them do not deal with Wild Shape. That is 70% of the class features going towards a single use of a single ability. This would be like clerics have 11 features that focus exclusively on Turn Undead. And what are these five features? Druidic (Useless), Spellcasting, Two other uses for the same resource (Blossoms which are terribly underpowered, and the Familar with is superior to most uses of Wildshape), A recharge for the Resource you can use for Wild shape, Alter Self at will at level 14 (pretty much useless) 2) We have no indication from this UA that other uses of Channel Nature are currently on the Table. We can assume so, but since the Base Class focuses nearly all its energy on Wild Shape, the question will constantly be if the subclass features are worth the loss of the main focus of the entire class But it is the illusion of stuff. Aquatic and Aerial form aren't new, they are actually coming later than they used to. Going tiny used to be a thing you could do immediately, now they've pulled it out. They filled out the chart by breaking a single ability into multiple abilities, which... isn't a direction I want to encourage? [/QUOTE]
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