Li Shenron
Legend
My opinion about your second version:
Overall I think it is well balanced, and not overpowered. I don't think that Wildshape (unlimited) is much better than Wildshape (6/day), although it is better of course: you are probably going to exploit it more often only in a few occasions, so if you like the idea of freely shapechanging, just go for it. Shaping at free action is worth the equivalent of one or two feats IMHO, and doesn't imbalance the class; at best it will let you save 1 standard action for something else.
The only 2 things I would tweak are the following, but they are definitely minor:
1) I would lower DR to a progression that always increases by 1, and possibly even every 3 levels instead of 2. I think it would still be very good, since Cold Iron will be relatively rare (at least I don't think there's a spell which replicates it?), and you would be able to continue the progression with Epic levels without going too fast.
2) I would swap Wild Shape(Small) with WS(Medium): for Medium-size characters it should be easier to wild-shape into an animal of the same size!
Overall I think it is well balanced, and not overpowered. I don't think that Wildshape (unlimited) is much better than Wildshape (6/day), although it is better of course: you are probably going to exploit it more often only in a few occasions, so if you like the idea of freely shapechanging, just go for it. Shaping at free action is worth the equivalent of one or two feats IMHO, and doesn't imbalance the class; at best it will let you save 1 standard action for something else.
The only 2 things I would tweak are the following, but they are definitely minor:
1) I would lower DR to a progression that always increases by 1, and possibly even every 3 levels instead of 2. I think it would still be very good, since Cold Iron will be relatively rare (at least I don't think there's a spell which replicates it?), and you would be able to continue the progression with Epic levels without going too fast.
2) I would swap Wild Shape(Small) with WS(Medium): for Medium-size characters it should be easier to wild-shape into an animal of the same size!
