Ok, embarassing, but it looks like I made a fuss over nothing. Vanilla toee has wildshape bears at one attack, so, somehow, I must have imagined the whole thing. Er... oh well.
Hello, I'm having an issue that someone mentioned earlier in this thread: druid move speed drops to a crawl for some reason when wild shifted. Has anyone figured a way around that yet?
http://www.co8.org/forum/showthread.php?t=9662 Dual wielding while wild shifted can cause some irregularities as well (using the full attack command from the radial window- I do not know if simply clicking on the target to attack resolves this).
Thanks for the reply Mr. TBH that makes me quite sad, however I lucked out in that I haven't taken any feats, or distributed any stats to support a melee/wild form druid. I guess I'll just keep along the lines I've been and continue developing her as an offensive caster.
1. Is this a bug that happens after playing the game for some time or is it present at the start? I did a test with the pregenerated druid and she had a speed of 30' in polar bear form. Longstrider and expeditious retreat each increased her movement by 10.' Here is a thread that goes into detail about this bug but it doesn't say whether this is present at the start of the game or something that happens midway thru.http://www.co8.org/forum/showthread.php?t=9662 2. They are the same. 3. You can use the console to add the size bonus to any wild shape by typing game.party[0].stat_base_set(stat_size,x) 1 is fine size (-16) 5 is medium size (+0), 6 is large (+4), etc. Remember to set your size back to 5 if you shape change back to human form. If you want to give the hill giant reach you can type: game.party[x].obj_set_int(obj_f_critter_reach, 10) Remember to set your reach back to 5 if you shape back to human form.
Every bear has at least 3 natural attacks: 2 claw attacks (primary natural weapon at full attack bonus) and a bite attack (secondary natural weapon with a -5 penalty). This has nothing to do with additional attacks due to high BAB (+6, +11 or +16). Sadly, Druids are heavily nerfed in ToEE.