TyrKnight |
The text reads: Armor with this special ability usually appears to be made from magically hardened animal pelt. The wearer of a suit of armor or a shield with this ability preserves his armor bonus (and any enhancement bonus) while in a wild shape. Armor and shields with this ability usually appear to be covered in leaf patterns. While the wearer is in a wild shape, the armor cannot be seen.
So a hide armor (+4) enchanted +1 with the wild property adds +5 to the AC when wild shaped?
That one seems clear.
A large wooden shield (+2) enchanted +1 with the wild property adds ... nothing to the AC when wild shaped, because it's a shield bonus and enhancement bonus to the shield and not, as the wild property suggests, an armor bonus?
That one comes from the specific wording "the wearer of a suit of armor or a shield with this ability preserves his ARMOR BONUS (and any enhancement bonus) while in a wild shape".
But, you could get a +1 large wooden shield with the wild property, and +3 hide armor, and gain +7 to the AC when wild shaped? Because the wild property gives you your armor bonus to your AC, along with any enhancement bonus to the armor, regardless of which armor item the wild property is on?
blahpers |
I didn't even know you could enchant a shield with the wild property. Yeah, as written it's really weird. A druid wearing studded leather and carrying a +1 wild wooden light shield would retain the studded leather's armor bonus and the magic shield's enhancement bonus but not the magic shield's shield bonus. That probably wasn't intended at all.