I've been looking for a druid archetype that puts all of its eggs into the Wild Shape basket. I don't care if the animal companion and/or domain go away. I'd sacrifice some spellcasting, but probably not all of it. I just want to play a character whose whole shtick is Wild Shape. Early and frequently.
Have I missed it in the rules? Any suggestions?
shifter?
its a class that is literally what you're describing
Kind of the Shifter class, but they're pretty disappointing. You can focus your feats and spells on things that make you better while wildshaped, but there's no better class than bog-standard Druid.
It's kind weird that Druids don't even get the Beast Shape spells. At least then you could manually trade spellcasting for Wildshape.
Where is the Shifter from?
Where is the Shifter from?
It comes from the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Ultimate Wilderness book.
No such thing, really.
You can Wild Shape differently than base Druid (going for giants, feys or oozes even), better but later and with a much more limited selection (the two or so viable shamans), or gain the Hunter's Animal Focus in top of it with the Feral Hunter - probably the most straightforward.
Building for Wild Shape is more about what you do with your ability scores and feats, and your playstyle in action.
Shifter means higher BAB, no magic, and some hotly debated jankyness. Interesting though, if you can make it work.
Oh yeah, multiclassing works. Really well. Ranger has options.
Powerful Shape requires Druid 8 though, you might be thinking of something else.
Druidzilla builds work. They work very well indeed.
I think the feat in question should be shaping focus. Powerful shape comes later as you note, and just isn't important for a druidzilla anyway.