Adaptive Shifter Unfettered Wild Shape

[Morbid Eels]

Love this archetype as its much more in line with what I expected the base shifter to be, but I have a couple of questions:

1. Do I/Can I still benefit from Lasting Sprinting Form or other forms when I use unfettered wild shape?

2. Does unfettered wild shape count as wild shape for the prerequisites and effects of feats? (I know that normally effects that function identically to named abilities are treated as those abilities thanks to an FAQ, but this ability has quite a few modifications to the druid's wild shape ability. Then again I would assume they didn't intend to prevent this archetype from accessing all of the feats that make wild shape so useful, so I'm really not sure.)

[Ryan Freire]

Probably not from a strict reading, but IME the game works better if things that "function as X" are treated as X for the purposes of feats and thelike

[willuwontu]

1.) Yes, reactive forms still effect you while using unfettered wild shape.

2.) It cannot take wild shape feats, it replaces that ability with a different one.

[ReGaXV]

Sorry for necro, but definitely yes, because that's analogous to Paladins taking Channelling Feats: Paladin's "Channel Positive Energy" isn't exactly the same as Cleric's "Channel Energy", but apart from some details it's the same feature both for concept and mechanics; and by RAW Paladins can take Channelling Feats. So IMHO Adaptive Shifter (and other archetypes mimicking other classes' features) should be able to take Wild Shape feats.

[Diego Rossi]

AoN wrote:

Unfettered Wild Shape (Su): At 6th level, an adaptive shifter gains the ability to turn into other creatures. This functions as a druid’s wild shape ability, except she does not gain the ability to turn into an elemental. The shifter’s effective druid level is equal to her class level. She can use this ability for a number of hours per day equal to half her effective druid level. This duration does not need to be consecutive, but must be spent in 1-hour increments. For abilities that function based on “uses of wild shape,” each hour of unfettered wild shape counts as a use.

If function as Wild shape, with some limitation, I would say it count as it.

The second bolded piece of text reinforces that opinion.