Druid, Feats and Info

[Lunavera0351]

I have been trying to look for a thread that has a lot of info on what feats/enhan work with the animal forms in terms of more attack and damage. Another few questions I have is regarding items effects. If I have missed it please post a link here, so far I have only found bits and pieces scattered. Also if I am wrong on anything that I have stated please inform me so that I can update this post to not be misleading.

Feats
Power attack, cleave, great cleave and whirlwind (power attack and cleave work so I would assume it dose as well) all seem to be working just fine and can help dps. (not saying they are the best choice) I am also assuming power critical works as well, no idea if it dose.

Twf, Itwf, Gtwf, Thf, Ithf, Gthf and weapon finesse as I have read so far do not help or improve dps. From what I have seen you are using a "one handed weapon" to attack with wile in animal form.

These feats have to be for bludgeoning
Weapon focus (iwf, gwf if ftr lvls), weapon specialization and gws if ftr lvls, Improved critical, overwhelming critical.
All of these feats are for slashing, piercing, bludgeoning and so on. Bear is slash and bludge and wolf is pierce and slash for dr purposes only. To increase either form you need to choose bludgeoning for these feats.

Enhancements
Specific weapon enhan (rapiers, long swords, scimitars...) that give a bonus to that weapons attack or damage do not help you even if you are holding that weapon. From what I have seen/read the only thing that you get from any weapons that are equipped is there effects.
With that said is there any effects that anyone has noticed on there weapon not work in animal form?

[shadereaper33]

with regards to the weapon focus/spec feats, and imp crit, animal forms fall under the bludgeoning category, just like unarmed combat.

[Lunavera0351]

with regards to the weapon focus/spec feats, and imp crit, animal forms fall under the bludgeoning category, just like unarmed combat.

Just to get this straight, the wolf: slash/pierce bear bludge/slash is just for dr and to improve attack/dps for them you would need to get this feats for bludgeoning?

[JasonJi72]

Yes, ic blunt is the way to go.

Shield mastery, and natural fighting are what you are looking for to increase attack speed and dps through doublestrike.

There are also enhancements that will increase attack speed and damage.

[Lunavera0351]

I know as well as I think most would that the druid feats/enhan like natural fighting are prob the best to take if going for melee dps just trying to figure out what all works and dose not work ty for the responses.