Quote Originally Posted by Darkgnoll View Post
While Wild Shape would potentially be problematic, to say that is the only reason one would want to play a druid is, IMO, false. Wild Shape would be very neat, and if the Natural Spell feat was not implimented, it would be far from broken. But, even without it druids would be valuable due to the very nice spell list they have. Just for a very fast example - imagine a character who - without MC or UMD - can cast Barksin, full heals, and Wall of Fire. Useful?? I think so.
Agreed. Druid is one of my favorite class in 3.5. I hardly ever use wild shape on the druids I play and they are extremely useful and versatile. Healing, buffs, summoning elementals...yeah we need druids much more than we need monks.