Fire Elemental Gnome Wizard?

[LordKailas]

So, I have a pyromanic gnome who is a fire elementalist wizard. His current goal is to be able to permanetly (or semi permanently) become a fire elemental. Sure he has elemental body I but its an extremely limited duration so I've been looking to create a similar effect that lasts longer.

After doing some looking I ran across the druid wildshape ability, which at higher levels allows you to transform into an elemental. Additonally, my gm is allowing methods to gain mythic tiers in his game and there is mythic wildshape which let's you take on a single form as much as you want.

The problem though is that I would have to take 4 levels in druid and spend a feat in order to get the elemental wildshape. But I really don't care about the spells or other abilities druids get, in fact I don't even care about turning into an animal. What's more my gnome would make a terrible druid with his 8 wisdom.

Another option is the brightness seeker, but I would have to spend 3 feats and take 3 levels in a class that doesn't give me any sort of casting ability and again I don't care about being able to transform into an animal.

Is there any way to get wildshape w/ being a druid or brightness seeker?
My gnome is a wizard so something that syngergizes with that would be nice. Becoming a druid or elven pilgram just feel like a lot of investment for something I can already do just to be able to do it for longer.

[Raisse]

You could take the Hierophant path and gain the ability to extend a spell to 24 hours. You would need to take Enduring Blessing twice, but that will get you 24 hour Elemental Body X.

Enduring Blessing:

Enduring Blessing (Su): Whenever you cast a spell with a duration of 10 minutes per level or longer upon one willing target, you can change that spell's duration to 24 hours. If the spell has other duration conditions, those still apply (for example, the duration of stoneskin changes to 24 hours or until discharged). A creature can't be subject to more than one spell affected by this ability at a time; if another is cast upon the creature, the first one ends. You can select this ability a second time at 6th tier or higher. The second time you select it, you can use it on spells with a duration of 1 minute per level or longer.

[Driver 325 yards]

If it is a home game your GM could just allow you to swap out some wizard abilities to gain wildshape.

That said, I guess you are looking for a RAW based wizard wildshaping build. I will look quickly and see if there is such a thing. I am kind of interested myself.

[Azouth]

Have you looked at a Synthesist ‎Summoner to "become" a fire elemental?