for gear for a fire claw druid i would suggest using 1 raven frost for cannot be frozen use jala's mane it is an all around nice helm for any shapeshifting druid because it will give you 4 to shape shifting skills, get an ammy with +2 to all or +2 shapeshifting. then use a fleshrender and lidless wall on ur switch for shifting and summoning your oak sage. that will give you +6 to fire claws so you can use skill charms to get up to 8 or more just as long as you rember that + skills will affect your damage significantly more if you you have high synergies. meaning for skill placement as you lvl up it depends on if you want a lot of life at first or more damage if you want more life at lower lvls you should max lycanthrophy and were bear first then max two synergies of fireclaws then start on fire claws. and if you wanna go the way of maxing damage first you should max two synergies of fire claws then fire claws then go back and max lycanthropy and were bear.

[edit/]after doing some calculations it seems to be better if you get about lvl 12 lycanthropy and 12 werebear seems to be effective for a life bonus[edit]