[3.5] Should a Druid bother taking Polymorph?

[rmg22893]

I'm playing a Gestalt Druid/Wizard, and I'm wondering if I should bother learning Polymorph if I already have a limited longer duration polymorph through Wild Shape?

[Manateee]

Transforming a character and its companion into War Trolls is for winners.

Also, it's just a couple pages in your spellbook.

[Myth]

What does your DM say, does Natural Spell work for your Wizard casting? You'd be better off alter selfed into a Dwarven Ancestor and later Shapechanged into a Solar/Choker something, if being wildshaped means no Wizard casting.

[Manateee]

What does your DM say, does Natural Spell work for your Wizard casting? You'd be better off alter selfed into a Dwarven Ancestor and later Shapechanged into a Solar/Choker something, if being wildshaped means no Wizard casting.
I think Polymorph is as useful as ever - especially in the light of Share Spell - but I don't really understand this argument. There's no reason to think wizard spells wouldn't work under Natural Spell, so the question doesn't really make sense.

[gbprime]

There's also the Minor Shapeshift reserve feat for giving yourself Temp HP every round [that you're not casting a quickened spell].

[Rubik]

Taking Polymorph means that you can just Poly into humanoid shape when you need to; when the duration runs out, you just become a sparrow (or whatever) again. When you want to splatter someone with a racial ability you don't have as a bear, just Polymorph into a roper or whatever.

It's a power spell, whether you've got wild shape or not.