Wildshape and AC

[Yalta]

There is seemingly a bug with the panther wildshape and AC. I was being "hit" with rolls from NPC's at least 6 lower than my AC was showing on my Character Sheet.

For note I had not been webbed, entangled or otherwise had my AC lower that could have caused an issue.

[Yalta]

I have some screenshots if that helps.

[Paha]

A character or creature that is caught unawares or otherwise unprepared is considered to be flat-footed. A flat-footed character loses his dexterity, dodge, and tumble bonuses (but not penalties) to armor class (AC) and cannot make attacks of opportunity, cannot make a defensive roll, and cannot deflect arrows.

Did you encounter such situation, as it will happen when one is for example getting sneak attacked? I know wild shape and panther mostly tends to have such AC that can be lost if you are flat-footed.

[Ebok]

Just so you know, flatfooted happens anytime your battle queue is empty. So if you are moving through command with your w-a-s-d keys rather then clicking, you will be flatfooted through this moment. In addition, any time your opponent is unseen or "heard" but not seen, you will be flatfooted. This last event can occur due to place-ables and other such blocking line of sight for a moment.

[John Doe]

You aren't flat footed by using wasd, but there's a bunch of things that can explain it (and have been, but to summarize):

You're attacked by something that was either stealthed, invisible,  (darkness / blindness), or you were standing still completely as the hit roll was being made.

In all cases you lose your dodge ac (which is applied to wildshape afaik)