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Hello everyone, I have never played a druid before in my pathfinder gaming career so I am a bit uncertain about just exactly what the archetypes do to wildshape when it says to use plus or minus your druid level for whatever the stipulation is. Does this merely affect the duration you can remain in the shape? Or does it mean that a level 6 serpent saurian could use beast shape 3 while taking a dinosaur form, and only beast shape 1 if anything else?

And Paizo... Why no shaman of elementals >:[

I have been trying to figure out how bonuses on weapons such as the double walking stick katana or the double-chained kama are applied. If a single +1 bonus of whatever is given to the item, do both ends of the kama, and both swords in the walking stick receive this bonus? Or do bonuses have to be applied as though it were two separate items?

For clarity, a double katana walking stick resembles a quarterstaff when both blades are sheathed; with the hilt of each sword being on opposite ends.