Gear and Druid?

[Wight]

Does for example Gortashes gloves 'Gauntlet of the tyrant' work while wildshaped?
ie: Do I get the bonus to unarmed damage from the gloves while wildshaped?

[eRe4s3r]

unmodded the game has exactly ZERO items that benefit your wildshape form in any way. ZERO

[seandeven]

au naturel

[eRe4s3r]

Origineel geplaatst door seandeven:

au naturel

Is sadly not advisable, because you gonna get forcefully yeeted out of wildshape on every cutscene dialog. In fact Druid playthrough without mods fixing all of this nonsense make the experience pretty meh.

[Fluffykeith]

Origineel geplaatst door eRe4s3r:

unmodded the game has exactly ZERO items that benefit your wildshape form in any way. ZERO

Not true.

The Shapeshifters Boon Ring grants the wearer +1d4 on all checks made while shapeshifted or disguised, and that includes Wild Shape. And you don't need mods to get it.

[seandeven]

Origineel geplaatst door Fluffykeith:

Origineel geplaatst door eRe4s3r:

unmodded the game has exactly ZERO items that benefit your wildshape form in any way. ZERO

Not true.

The Shapeshifters Boon Ring grants the wearer +1d4 on all checks made while shapeshifted or disguised, and that includes Wild Shape. And you don't need mods to get it.

forgot about Dammon's Strange Cow put a ring on it......
......so one ring. Technically still Au naturel.

[seandeven]

Origineel geplaatst door eRe4s3r:

Origineel geplaatst door seandeven:

au naturel

Is sadly not advisable, because you gonna get forcefully yeeted out of wildshape on every cutscene dialog. In fact Druid playthrough without mods fixing all of this nonsense make the experience pretty meh.

I wished the NPCs drank Animal Speaking potions. There are many, many around for them to do so.

Agree the yeeting to accommodate human form when a Speak with Animals potion is like drinking a Pepsi is nonsense....

[Hobocop]

There's leather armor (Armor of Moonbasking) you can get almost immediately after entering Act 3 that gives a ton of benefits to Wild Shape.

[eRe4s3r]

Origineel geplaatst door Fluffykeith:

Origineel geplaatst door eRe4s3r:

unmodded the game has exactly ZERO items that benefit your wildshape form in any way. ZERO

Not true.

The Shapeshifters Boon Ring grants the wearer +1d4 on all checks made while shapeshifted or disguised, and that includes Wild Shape. And you don't need mods to get it.

Ok fair, ONE item. ONE <3

Origineel geplaatst door Hobocop:

There's leather armor (Armor of Moonbasking) you can get almost immediately after entering Act 3 that gives a ton of benefits to Wild Shape.

Fair, 2 items ;)

[seandeven]

Origineel geplaatst door Hobocop:

There's leather armor (Armor of Moonbasking) you can get almost immediately after entering Act 3 that gives a ton of benefits to Wild Shape.

That is not at the beginning of Act 3 more like after you kill Orin in Act 3..... and that is if you did't dispose of all sewer dwellers....

*on me for sewer disposal....

[eRe4s3r]

Origineel geplaatst door seandeven:

Origineel geplaatst door Hobocop:

There's leather armor (Armor of Moonbasking) you can get almost immediately after entering Act 3 that gives a ton of benefits to Wild Shape.

That is not at the beginning of Act 3 more like after you kill Orin in Act 3..... and that is if you did't dispose of all sewer dwellers....

*on me for sewer disposal....

To be fair, if you like me played Druid on launch day this armor was utterly bugged. So nothing was lost ;)

[seandeven]

Origineel geplaatst door eRe4s3r:

Origineel geplaatst door seandeven:

That is not at the beginning of Act 3 more like after you kill Orin in Act 3..... and that is if you did't dispose of all sewer dwellers....

*on me for sewer disposal....

To be fair, if you like me played Druid on launch day this armor was utterly bugged. So nothing was lost ;)

Beat the game a month after launch, which coincidentally after all these years, coincided with my birthday. Beat the game once in multiplayer, both times tactician. Cleared the dirty sewers both times. Multiple mid game stops in-between....

Now going for a multiplayer honor-run....... Which has been interesting. I lost count the deaths... lmao.

[TheClosetSkeleton]

Plenty of items, more or less hard to find. Also reminder that druids are not just the wildshape magicians, going in and out of WS is pretty standard.

[Kappa]

Me and my friends just started a honor mode run recently ( Tav1 Life cleric, shadowheart storm cleric, Tav2 Battlemaster, Tav 3 Circle of the moon druid ), and the shapeshifter is insane once they hit lvl 6 and get owlbear form ( which is so damn good, and couldn't imagine how broken could be with equipment available while shapeshifted )

From lvl 7 Dryad is also gamebreaking cause of unlimited thorns ( along with the game's "questionable AI" ).

Out of form, druid has 20/21 AC and can play with Shillelagh and cast spells for both control, healing and damage ( after all, shapeshifter needs no str and a very limited amount of dex, so they can invest all they have in CON and max out WIS ).

The only thing I recommend as a shapeshifter is a warding bond spell ( we are currently lvl 8, and my life cleric has 100hp ), in order not to break the owlbear form and make a good use of the life cleric perks. Anything else is not required.

ps: If one want to exploit the game with bugs, iirc there are some class perks ( monk wisdom armor, fighter defense stance or the unarmored barbarian using a shield to say some ) that works while shapeshifted.

pps: before lvl 6 everything went smooth. If you want to be safe, just roam between locations and wait for lvl 5 before hitting ethel, broodmother and the beholder ( but it's not required ).

[Chaosolous]

Origineel geplaatst door eRe4s3r:

unmodded the game has exactly ZERO items that benefit your wildshape form in any way. ZERO

That's entirely false.

[seandeven]

Origineel geplaatst door TheClosetSkeleton:

Plenty of items, more or less hard to find. Also reminder that druids are not just the wildshape magicians, going in and out of WS is pretty standard.

Also,
Wildshape is the utility of a health sponge.
(as Kappa states)

I can see how insane wildshaped druids would get with the in game gear availiable.
Unless you are Circle of the Moon druids want more shapely items that retain the magic in wildform.. which is understandable but I get the design decision to limit these things, you already get a deluge of items, one class gets the low magic treatment, makes sense to me it is the druids.