Quote Originally Posted by Grzywa View Post
I was a bit confused by suggestion of battlemind, but as i checked it it seems easy to refluff as i see it, as many powers are some just kind of augmentation, instead of flashy spell-like powers.
That's one of the reasons I suggested druid, too. Most beastform druid powers are melee strikes with martial-looking effects.

And I know it's weird, but beastform doesn't need to have a shapechanging flavor at all -- the base power doesn't change any game statistics. I'm not a fan of the 4e wildshape concept because it has you shifting form every few seconds. That's definitely not a classic fantasy trope. Eventually I started thinking of the different wildshapes as stances and moves in a typical human martial art. Say, bando, for example, if you want to get meta about the 'animal' theme.