New Druid, Couple quick Questions

[Nivek555]

Hello I was waiting for Vet Status to open up, so I just created my Druid and had a couple questions.

One is for the spell Longstrider. The way I assume it works is that it stacks with the Wolf run speed buff or your gear run buff which ever is greater. Like right now I have boots that give me 15%, the Wolf gives 10%, and Longstrider gives 15%. So I should be at a 30% increase right?

Next is for the spell Magic Fang. It sounds like at level 7 it should be giving a +2 increase to your weapon or shield. I tried casting it and neither my to hit or AC improved. I'm currently using a +3 scimitar and a +3 shield. Do you only see the increase in the combat log? Also does it cap out at +5? So when you have a +5 weapon there would be no point in casting the spell.

Last question is on feat selection. Since I already have a couple casters, I wanted to make a Wolf build. So eventually the 3 Natural Fighting feats, the 2 shield ones, I. Crit Blud, Toughness, Power Attack. By level 7 I have 4 feats with being human and I wasn't really sure what the fourth one should be since you don't meet the requirements for more then 3 of those listed above. I ended up taking Extend, since I thought that would be useful at lower levels. For when I respec out of it what else would be good? Does cleave work in animal forms?

Thanks for any help with these questions.

[Morbic]

[QUOTE]One is for the spell Longstrider. The way I assume it works is that it stacks with the Wolf run speed buff or your gear run buff which ever is greater. Like right now I have boots that give me 15%, the Wolf gives 10%, and Longstrider gives 15%. So I should be at a 30% increase right?[/effect]

Easiest way is to just have all of it on and check your effect messages to see if anything gets thrown out.

Next is for the spell Magic Fang. It sounds like at level 7 it should be giving a +2 increase to your weapon or shield. I tried casting it and neither my to hit or AC improved. I'm currently using a +3 scimitar and a +3 shield. Do you only see the increase in the combat log? Also does it cap out at +5? So when you have a +5 weapon there would be no point in casting the spell.

The Natural Weapon stats for animal form do not currently show up anywhere. Other then mental math of what we should be seeing, there is no place to look at the numbers.

Last question is on feat selection. Since I already have a couple casters, I wanted to make a Wolf build. So eventually the 3 Natural Fighting feats, the 2 shield ones, I. Crit Blud, Toughness, Power Attack. By level 7 I have 4 feats with being human and I wasn't really sure what the fourth one should be since you don't meet the requirements for more then 3 of those listed above. I ended up taking Extend, since I thought that would be useful at lower levels. For when I respec out of it what else would be good? Does cleave work in animal forms?

A lot of lower levels go for Augment summoning since pets/hirelings/summonings are more effective at lower level ranges. Not sure about Power Attack, haven't used it myself.

[threefeetunder]

Does cleave work in animal forms?

Cleave works very well in animal forms, much faster then thf.

[Skeald]

Longstrider will not stack with items or the wolf forms natural speed boosts - they are all enhancement bonuses

as an example long strider will not stack with 15% striders - but will overwrite 5% or 10% striding

magic fang also adds and enhancement bonus to your natural attacks - it will not stack wht the enhancement bonus of your equiped weapon (druids in anuimal form read the enhancement bonus and effects on your equiped weapon - but not the base damage, or damage type, those come from form only)

as an example if you have a +3 weapon equiped magic fang that is granting +2 is superseded by the higher enhancment bonus on the scimmy

[Nivek555]

Anyone know if that's right on Longstrider? The spell lists it as a increase to your base speed, not an enhancement bonus. Also when I have it cast, I think it feels like I'm going faster.

[Diyon]

Cleave works very well in animal forms, much faster then thf.

On that note, do you get doublestrikes on a cleave? If not it may not be a good idea, as you'll rely on doublestrike a lot for melee druid.