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Are the druid animal shaman variants worth taking? They seem kind of powerful at low levels when they get their wild shape and can turn into huge animals (of their tupe).
There's an older thread somewhere in the archives kinda on this, but it didn't go into too much. Basic summary of it was bear shamans are ok, bird can be awesome casters, lion if you want to be in melee, serpent sucks and wolf is ok.
If you were playing in a campaign that goes to level 4 as a druid the animal shamans are better because wild shape does not get good until you can casts spells with it until level 5 with natural spell. The lion and high strength is really good at melee probably the best druid at melee for level 3 when you would get power attack with a lion shaman and use totemic transformation to get three natural attacks and get 3 natural attacks and a high strength.
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Are the druid animal shaman variants worth taking? They seem kind of powerful at low levels when they get their wild shape and can turn into huge animals (of their tupe).
There's an older thread somewhere in the archives kinda on this, but it didn't go into too much. Basic summary of it was bear shamans are ok, bird can be awesome casters, lion if you want to be in melee, serpent sucks and wolf is ok.
For the most part, I think that you're better off playing a standard Druid, rather than any of the Animal Shaman archetypes.
The big problem that I have with the Animal Shaman is that unless your GM allows you to take a larger size version of your totemic animal (essentially Wild Shaping with the Giant template), your shape changing advantages are really diminished. Play an Eagle Shaman...now you can Wild Shape into a specific Medium creature better than a standard Druid. Of course, he can Wild Shape into everything else better than you, and your totemic form kind of sucks. You can't even be a Giant Eagle, because they're Magical Beasts.
Don't get snookered.