Get a barding fitted for the shape he most often uses. Cast mage armor on him, a wand costs only 750. Get Bracers of Armor. If he has high wisdom take a level of monk for wis to ac.
use barkskin\ironskin spells also grab 'scale and skin' feat and see your ac go off the roof (that feat work wonderful with long duration spells such as ant haul (2 hours/level)
Doesn't wildshape need to be a transmutation spell or SLA to work with the scale and skin feat?
Doesn't wildshape need to be a transmutation spell or SLA to work with the scale and skin feat?
Barkskin and ironskin are both transmutation spells. Ant Haul is also a transmutation spell.
There is exactly what you want: Expensive (Wild)
There is something like you want: Inconvenient (Barding)
There is an alternate to what you want: Unobtainable (Swift Girding)
You’ve got only two choices. Fork out the money or change tactics to make the inconvenient option viable. I’d opt to picking a favorite form, get Barding for it, and STAY in that form as much as possible.
Get a barding fitted for the shape he most often uses. Cast mage armor on him, a wand costs only 750.Get Bracers of Armor.If he has high wisdom take a level of monk for wis to ac.
Any item that gives a Shield or Armor bonus will not function while Wild Shaped unless it has the Wild property.
Items that provide constant bonuses and do not need to be activated continue to function while melded in this way (with the exception of armor and shield bonuses, which cease to function).
So Bracers of Armor are out unless you wanna fork over 16,000 gold for +1 Wild Bracers.
What do you mean barding is really hard to put on? Wildshape lasts hours. Change and have your party use a few minutes to dress you up, it takes no more time than the fighter takes donning his full plate.
@Darksol you are right, we let the Bracers work in wild shape but that is a house rule. But you could slap the bracers on afterwards if the shape has wrist slots. But barding is probably cheaper. Unless you multiclassed monk for wis to AC.
get mage armor from wand and umd it
or be a nagaji (or racial heritage if human) and pick the naga aspirent archtype
-which bascikly only gain stuff, as it replaces the spontanius summon casting with a list of nice arcne spells to add including mage armor, while still having summon spells in spell list so no biggy loosing the spontanius part. as well as gainig the abity to shapeshift to naga form, but never loosing the normal shapeshifting of druids so win-win.
other idea,as most shapes have neck slot you can grab Guardian Gorget for +2 ac, light fortification and a gliph kinda spell to drop on anyone who hit you.
last one. going evengelist of nethys will give full evangelist abilities and only effective -1 level to druid ones with the class copy-paste ability at levels 2-10. as well as sla among them a 3/day mage armor cast with ur hd as caster level so last long time.
Naga aspirant doesn't need mage armor. You only lose access to your gear when shape shifting into an animal, dragon, elemental, magical beast, plant, or vermin type. Naga's are of the aberration type, and thus all your gear changes to fit your form and remains usable.
yeae. but i wanted to offer something that will work even if the op want to take a difrent form. while the archtype let you take a naga's form. it still have the normal wildshape ability. the mage armor is for that.