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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yunru" data-source="post: 7563965" data-attributes="member: 6780961">Post 4: Combat formsDruid 2-3:Brown Bear: With low Dexterity and multiattack, this front runner for a normal druid is somewhere in the middle of the league for the karate kid.Crag Cat: The Crag Cat is the best choice if your fighting a spellcaster. It has decent attack that you can use with Martial Arts, a high dexterity score, darkvision, nondetection, and oh yeah, Spell Turning.Deinonychus: Subpar health and a subpar attack lets this one down.Dire Wolf: One of the top choices, the dire wolf has a good HP, a good attack, and pack tactics.Female Steeder: A great Dexterity score and a great attack combine to make a great choice. It also has good mobility.Giant Hyena: If you're looking at this, you're probably also looking at the Dire Wolf. It's up to you whether the possible prone and pack tactics is worth giving up for an half-dash when you drop an enemy.Giant Spider: Low health lets down an otherwise solid choice.  A ranged option to restrain is good, even if it's likely to only cost the opponents one action, and the bite damage is above average.Lion: Subpar health and subpar damage lets down the Lion. Pack tactics might alleviate it a bit, but the Dire Wolf and Giant Hyena are both strictly better.Tiger: Somewhat in the same boat as the Lion. It trades pack tactis for decent health.Druid 4-5:Giant Octopus: If you can get around only breathing water, this is a decent choice. Your land speed is only 10 feet, but that can be increased by the Monk's Unarmored Movement. You have a whopping 52 hit points, and an attack that deals an average of 10 damage, plus grapples and restrains a target. You can't use the attack on another target if you do grapple though, so make sure to pummel them to death before moving on. The breathing water and low land speed are what stops this from being sky blue.Giant Toad: The problem with the Giant Toad is that swallow is an action, and if you grapple something you can't use your strong attack. Otherwise this would be a solid choice.Druid 6-7:Allosaurus: The Allosaurus has good HP, and a good attack. Pounce is a wasted feature though.Aurochs: Bad HP is what really holds this one back, as otherwise it's a good bruiser. Unfortunately charge and low HP are not a good combination.Cave Bear: A decent amount of health, a decent attack (although multiattack is wasted), and darkvision makes for an okay choice.Giant Boar: An otherwise decent choice, let down by poor accuracy.Giant Constrictor Snake: High HP, a decent Dexterity, and an amazing attack. Plus blindsight.Giant Crayfish: If the Giant Constrictor Snake is a top pick, this is the mirror opposite. It's got average health, low Dexterity, and an attack that would be okay with multiattack, but not for us. It does have a bigger blindsight though.Giant Elk: Decent HP, a high Dexterity, a decent attack to use with charge, and an amazing attack if you get an opponent prone.Hunter Shark: A decent HP, a decent attack, and blood frenzy. Obviously it's much less useful outside of the water.Plesiosaurus: You've a lot of HP and otherwise decent stats across the board.Polar Bear: If you have access to Cave Bear forms, then this is a trap, otherwise see the Cave Bear entry.Rhinoceros: The charger the Giant Boar should of been. A decent HP, a decent attack, and charge is a nice boost. A negative Dexterity modifier though.Saber-Toothed Tiger: See the Tiger for everything wrong with this.Druid 8:Quetzalcoatlus: A low health makes you fragile, but a fly speed and flyby means you hopefully won't be taking that many attacks. Dive is a nice boost to attack damage, although you'll need to boost your speed to get the most out of it.Druid 9-11:Ankylosaurus: Keeping it simple,the Ankylosaurus has a decent HP and AC, and a great attack.Giant Lightning Eel: A weak bite attack and a low HP makes this a less than stellar choice.Giant Scorpion: Decent HP, decent AC, blindsight 60 ft. Multiattack and the Claw attack are wasted, but Sting is definitely a good choice.Killer Whale: If you can find a way to get this thing a speed other than swim, this outclasses the Ankylosaurus. 120 feet of blindsight, keen hearing, 90 HP, and a great attack.Druid 12-14:Elephant: HP has really slowed down here, but the elephant is also lacking in every other area too.Giant Subterranean Lizard: Low health, even compared to the other two beasts of this level, and it's Dexterity modifier means that it's AC isn't going to improve, but it does what the Giant Frog doesn't: It swallows as an attack, rather than an action. Both Bite and Swallow are great attacks.Stegosaurus: Another simple beast. Big attack, low Dex.Druid 15-17:Brontosaurus: Triple digit HP, and amazing attacks. It also has an AC of 15 if you weren't convinced.Giant Crocodile: It's health could be better, it's AC isn't going above 14, and multiattack is wasted, but its attacks have great conditions on a hit.Giant Shark: If you're in a water area, then this is for you. It has a large HP, a fast swim speed, 60 ft of blindsight, blood frenzy and a decent attack.Hulking Crab: This, however, you want to stay away from, water or otherwise.  It lacks HP, Dexterity, or a decent attack. The only thing going for it is an AC of 17.Triceratops: Unimpressive all round, I'm afraid.</blockquote>

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