As thought experiment, consider the druid.
Wildshape plus multiclassing gives a extreme number of options.
What build can you come up with?
Considering the feats available, natural spell, wild speech, and shaping focus for example, it is possible to make a wide variety of concepts.
Consider the deinonychus rogue scout- 4 attacks with pounce and SA.
The viper monk- feral combat with bite gives FoB with poison.
The summoner whose eidolon uses hims as a mount.
Octopus form gives lots of tentacle attacks with reach, grab, and constrict, so perhaps a fighter weapon master (tentacles)? Or magus?
Paladin's out because of alignment restrictions, gunfighter and alchemist might have difficulties using their toys, specific archetypes like black blade magus would also have problems.
Elemental wizard elemental.
Arcane trickster gives you disable device as a mouse.
Elemental shaped dragon disciple?
Scarred witch t-rex?
AMBARBARIAN as BATTYBAT?
Songbird bard.
Electric eel has a touch attack.
Animals with fly speeds can open up the flyby attack feat. (As a magus?)
A wizard in that octopus form that grapples you?
Spells can give slow or water-breathing creatures as well as plants options.
(Is there a build doing anything fun using plant shape?)
As a challenge, what can you come up with?
Since this is almost guaranteed to be MAD, use 25 points for stats.
(Stat it out as far as you want, but should have at least four levels of druid somewhere in the build. For bonus points, show us your builds biggest weakness.)
What about a caster build?
Anyone want to take a shot?
Generally speaking casting focused builds don't multiclass well.
After you hit level 17, and consequently have access to 9th level spells you don't lose much. But before then you delay access to higher level spells.
Let's try again.
What interesting builds can you come up with, using druid wild shape as a basis for multiclassing or a prestige class?
Figure it will have at least 4 levels of druid and some of the wild shape feats such as natural spellcasting, wild speech, and shaping focus.
It should be a concept that uses wild shape as a focus, either based on animal form, elemental form, plant form, or one of the other options found in the archetypes.
It should be viable with a 25 point build and work for, say, levels 8 to 16.
What creative concept can you come up with?
For my faux rogue druid i just stayed in class. Other classes just didn't offer anything worth picking up.
I tried to find a good way to take advantage of the Mountain Druid's ability to shapechange into a giant...But didn't' come up with anything compelling. I felt like the high performing feats that would get me to 12th level with wild shaping would lose a lot of punch once I was a humanoid again.
Maybe someone else can make it work.
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Vinila Druid win a single level of Sorcerer with the Draconic and Orc bloodlines via Crossblooded archetype. Pick up a wild shape that gives you fly speed, primarily Air Elemental when you get access, and just enjoy the power of a blaster druid. This also works with Draconic and Elemental bloodline. You loose out on +1 damage per dice but gain the ability to make any energy damaging spell into the energy type of you chosen Element.