#Wild shape magic weapons full#

The amount of damage that it is balanced for a spellcaster to do as a more-or-less at-will ability is very simple to find look at the cantrips. but for a druid? well, being able to use all those awesome weapons and armour is just one of those things a fighter or barbarian has that makes them a mighty warrior while you are a druid.

If someone homebrews a primary warrior that shapechanges into beasts to deal damage, then heck yeah, give them all the warrior goodies.

#Wild shape magic weapons full#

you can have a shapechanger that is an awesome warrior, but the moon druid cannot be that shapechanger warrior because it is a primary spellcaster, and as soon as you kill the 'shapechanged warrior' aspect it instantly reverts into a full spellcaster with full spell slots and HP. Moon druid is not close to a full-blown melee character (apart from levels 2-4) because they are designed to not be close to a full-blown melee character. there are minor costs, and therefore there should be only minor benefits. their archetype cost them 1/2 their level in spell levels per day and a few spells known that they could have taken instead. their ability to turn into an elemental recharges on a short rest. The thing is, a level 11 moon druid *isn't* giving up a lot of resources to wild shape into an elemental. But I feel like there's something I've missed that makes this OP. So what if the polar bear can use its fancy new Staff of Clubbing which auto-crits when striking seals and gives +1? That's a rethorical question btw :D Might as well let them then. They get some resistances which is nice, but they're still a joke compared to a barbarian. A werewolf? AC is more in line with regular people as they can wear equipment I believe, their damage is 1d8+str and 2d4+str. My fighter will be stronger than that at level 5. I mean a level 11 druid who wants multi attack goes polar bear. It seems as if it does become the rule of cool more than anything. I'm pondering the damage output and shapechanged damage looks the same or weaker than weapon damage in most instances. I mean for lycanthropes or polymorphs or whatever. But also, it's not just the wild shaped druid.

The wild shaped druid is super OP prior to 5 and after 5 it quickly falls to the bottom of the brawling types.

Well I'm doing the math and I don't see the problem after level 5.