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Something that was broken with 3.5 is that when a druid wild shapes into an animal, she looses the continuous effects of magical items worn, like bonuses to Wisdom. So a druid shifts forms, and suddenly looses one bonus spell per day, thats gone even when she shifts back to normal form and the periapt of wisdom is functional.
You can't even get around it by wild shaping in the morning, and then putting on the periapt, because sometime during the day, you're going to have to shift again, and then the periapt will either meld with your new form according to the rules as written, or fall off of you. either way you lose access to the periapt again.
Its a bit of a design flaw in the wording of wild shape that when you shift from one form to a new form all gear carried melds into the new form. If you're already wild shaped as a wolf, why should the cloak your friends put on you meld into you form when you wild shape into a wolf again, without changing back to a human?
something needs to be ammended there, so that continuous ability bonuses don't go inert. items worn should just function in the new form. when someone is enlarged, they don't become naked, their gear grows to fit them. Characters get around the whole "gear melding into form" by just putting the gear on in the new form anyway. so why not just ammend it to be gear carried melds into the new form but does not become inert.
It doesn't break anything, because it doesn't do anything that people aren't doing already, either by donning items while in wild shape, or by using wilding clasps. it saves time and headache so that characters don't have to change everything once they use one of their cool class abilities and just streamlines the process a bit.
Something has been done about it. Check out the rules for the Polymorph subschool of spells: "Items that provide constant bonuses and do not need to be activated continue to function while melded [..]"
I always ran this (in 3.5) as the effect of items being supressed while in WS. This works like being in an Antimagic Field - you lose the bonuses and access to the spells, but you regain them when you return to normal form again.
I love the new rules - they give the druid a reason to purchase items that grant these powers again. For a long time, my druid didn't concern himself with such things because they would all be supressed in WS. Now he'll have a reason to spend the extra gold or re-evaluate his item slots.
-Scott