Hi there 
A friend of mine want to play druid, and asked me about the land and moon druid..
Reading on forums people seem to think that the moon druid is the "stronger" choice, but i literatly cant see one good reason to pick it over the moon druid..
The land druid gets and extra cantrip and some pre-prepared spells, which is mediorcre at best IMO..
They do have a semi-good recovery, but the rest is terrible..
The moon druid however, get's a MASSIVE boost to shapeshifting, while remaining just as strong when it comes to spellcasting (just with a bit smaller repetoire and a few slots less)..
Am i missing something??
I think that the biggest advantage of land druid is that he will be played more intelligently.
You will have more impact with your spells on the battleground and control of the situation while moon druid will probably burn all his spells on combat healing in wild shape.
But that's the thing..
The moon druid doesnt have to..
He can do exactly the same as the land druid if he wish..
He just have very strong alternatives if neeeded.
You still get extra cantrip, it seems weak but it isn't and one extra highest spell per day(max 5th level) is excelent.
Also you get access to many non druid spells via your chosen circle.
I think that moon druid is made for new players that want to play a druid but keeping it simple.
While at low levels it's amazing, the moon druid's wildshape loses a lot of its dynamism over time. All of the numbers go up, but mechanically they're pretty boring. So yes, you're a pretty amazing damage sponge, but you'll pretty much just be standing around doing one big attack each round. So a lot of it has to do with the level you'll be playing at, and what you think is fun.
Land druids get to recharge spell slots.
And while amazing at level 2-4, beast's to-hit and damage doesn't scale very well, and cantrips do comperable damage at level 5.
Leaving moon as a bag of HP.
I'd call versatility about equal, as extra shape shifting forms for moon, and extra known spells for land.
Raijin411 wrote:
Horwath wrote:
The extra cantrip, free circle spells prepared, and slot recovery options are good options. A lot of spells known at lower levels creates versatility.
Both are equally viable in my opinion.
I've joined a campaign as a 10th level Druid of the Moon, Draven Moltenclaw.
A friend of mine is in the same game as a 10th level Druid of the Coast.
I co-tank and support rather well with the superior Wildshape, Polymorph, and the Conjure spells.
He on the other hand offers help where were lacking with his weaker wildshapes out of combat and larger list of prepared spells.
Whenever we work together we come up with some pretty entertaining 'combos'. I turned into an Earth Elemental so he could Thorn Whip people towards me while standing on my shoulder, meanwhile I threw Magmins like grenades I summoned before my shape change.
Grappling really helps a moon druid not be ignored.
A Land Druid is far easier to multi-class with another class as you gain most of the Land Druid's benefits by level 14. I find anything short of a level 18 Moon druid is seriously gimping themselves.
A Land Druid mc'd with 6-10 levels from another class or combination of more can make a potent and adaptable caster or caster hybrid as you are not bound to mazimizing form usage. Anything less than 18 levels of druid I would go Land Druid (because beast spells make Moon Druid hella amazing).