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<blockquote data-quote="Captain Panda" data-source="post: 7472604" data-attributes="member: 6861845">I don't know if someone has lobbied for the shepherd druid yet, but I disagree with the rating. I find that, as a moon druid, my concentration is always best used on a bunch of summons except in very specific situations. Those situations tend to be, more often than not, one of these:1. There are bad guys with big, scary aoe damage spells that will reliably destroy all of my summons in one shot whether or not they make the save.2. The bad guys are immune or resistant to mundane animal bites.The shepherd druid's level 6 ability solves both of those problems. A group of panthers or giant poisonous snakes can, suddenly, actually survive a fireball if they have the hp buff of the shepherd. They can survive it even on a failed save, conceivably, if they also have the bear totem buff. I also think the power of the unicorn totem was not sufficiently credited because I think you have a bias against healing in-combat. But! The unicorn totem offers the -best- kind of in-combat healing! A small, cheap, widely applied bonus action heal! With that up, if you healing word on subsequent turns you're throwing out a mass healing word, but without the much higher cost. That's not going to do much if you use healing to combat incoming damage, but it will get multiple people up at once for a very low resource cost, and it leaves your action unused.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Captain Panda, post: 7472604, member: 6861845"] I don't know if someone has lobbied for the shepherd druid yet, but I disagree with the rating. I find that, as a moon druid, my concentration is always best used on a bunch of summons except in very specific situations. Those situations tend to be, more often than not, one of these: 1. There are bad guys with big, scary aoe damage spells that will reliably destroy all of my summons in one shot whether or not they make the save. 2. The bad guys are immune or resistant to mundane animal bites. The shepherd druid's level 6 ability solves both of those problems. A group of panthers or giant poisonous snakes can, suddenly, actually survive a fireball if they have the hp buff of the shepherd. They can survive it even on a failed save, conceivably, if they also have the bear totem buff. I also think the power of the unicorn totem was not sufficiently credited because I think you have a bias against healing in-combat. But! The unicorn totem offers the -best- kind of in-combat healing! A small, cheap, widely applied bonus action heal! With that up, if you healing word on subsequent turns you're throwing out a mass healing word, but without the much higher cost. That's not going to do much if you use healing to combat incoming damage, but it will get multiple people up at once for a very low resource cost, and it leaves your action unused. [/QUOTE]

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