Shaman and Wildshape


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Hi,

I guess this has been asked before but I couldn't find it through google, so there :D

"At 6th level, a bear shaman’s wild shape ability functions at her druid level – 2. If she takes on the form of a bear, she instead uses her druid level + 2."

(Replace "bear" by the animal shaman you chose).

What does this mean exactly ? It doesn't REPLACE Wildshape, so am I correct in assuming this ?

Level 4: You get wildshape like any other druid.
Level 6: Other druids get a better wildshape. You count as 8 for your bear form and as 4 for other forms.

Also, does it change the number of times you can Wildshape ?

A regular level 6 Druid can wildshape twice.
What's correct ?
1) A level 6 Bear Shaman can also wildshape twice (but with the aforementioned bonus/malus).
2) A level 6 Bear Shaman can only wildshape once (level 4) into something different than a bear, and has two (level 8 - level 4) bear transformations.

Thanks a lot, it might seem stupid but I'm a bit confused there :D

The Concordance

Druid, Animal Shamans: At what class level do these archetypes gain wild shape?

The animal shaman archetypes for the druid class do not gain wild shape until class level 6.
(The other druid archetypes in this book use clearer phrasing to explain that the character doesn't gain the ability until level 6, and the animal shamans should also use that language. Furthermore, the descriptions of the modified wild shape class ability should include "This ability replaces wild shape.")
posted February 2014

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