Quote Originally Posted by diplomancer View Post
Getting OUT of wildshape is a bonus action, for any Druid. A relatively small cost to completely bypass stealth penalties and have 18 AC at level 2.
Bonus action is 1/4 of the total action economy. the importance of that varies from player to player but saying that it's somehow a zero cost is nonsense.
Also, if they do not go first they are probably in a very low AC form so let's hope they aren't concentrating on anything important. Seems pretty risk/reward to me, trading AC and use of wild shapes for stealth and utility.

Where is the 18AC from? As I stated they only start at 16 and unless you are handling out 3x the relevant wealth per level they won't be able to buy that scale until lv 3. So if the druid has 18 from upgrades then the martial class has 20-21.

Level 2 is arguably the strongest point of the entire druid class and even then having a reasonable AC isn't anywhere near to being put on the list of issues the class has.