Shapeshift problem (already, yes)

I've been waiting to make bear bleed slammer or fast attacking wolf that would focus on breaking armour ever since shapeshift was announced few years ago. Turns out every single attack has built in elemental conversion and there is no way to make a phys damage focused builds. I have no doubts it's fun to play but it's not fun when I feel like developers decided what builds are beforehand and there is no room to wiggle around it.

These design decisions are almost in every skill in PoE2, for some skills it makes total sense but now it's getting to the point where it actively goes against build diversity, which is one of the biggest appeals PoE has to me personally. Even auto attack has 70% ele conversion. Seriously?

I'm not sure if any feedback left here is even making it to anyone on the dev team but on the off chance it does I wanted to let them know how things are. It feels like if it's not a big outrage from the community on reddit or twitter then nobody at ggg is going to notice anything. How in the world this obvious problem is getting past hundreds of people and nobody bats an eye?

Locking skills behind weapons wasn't bad enough, now we locking in builds. Want to be a fire wolf or lightning bear? No can do. Phys or chaos damage? Never heard of it.

I think you can turn your basic attack (claw) into a bleed source. If it has a "strike" tag you can use "Tribal Fury" node too.

I understand what you're saying, and it's 100% true imo, but GGG is already complaining about how difficult all these things are to do in interviews. Maybe we'll see some more shapeshifting-based abilities in the next patch, who knows?

Its possible there is an ascendancy that has some phys support and they will add more druid skills later.

Solve this one too for me pls.
I was watching another druid gameplay released yesterday and the first thing that i noticed in the first minutes made me stop watching.

Do we have to open inventory and click the weapon everytime we want to shapeshift??

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IILU81II#8410 wrote:

Solve this one too for me pls.
I was watching another druid gameplay released yesterday and the first thing that i noticed in the first minutes made me stop watching.

Do we have to open inventory and click the weapon everytime we want to shapeshift??

Are you actually being serious right now?

Yeah, it was ziggyd video and noticed he kept spamming inventory to change shapeshifting form. I stopped watching in the very first minutes after i saw that. I'm going to watch full video right now for the sake of it :D

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IILU81II#8410 wrote:

Solve this one too for me pls.
I was watching another druid gameplay released yesterday and the first thing that i noticed in the first minutes made me stop watching.

Do we have to open inventory and click the weapon everytime we want to shapeshift??

You dont, you choose one that is only for the basic attack.
The skills with skill gems gonna swap between form automaticly.
So you only need to change it on the weapon if you want to use another basic attack as i understood.

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IILU81II#8410 wrote:

Yeah, it was ziggyd video and noticed he kept spamming inventory to change shapeshifting form. I stopped watching in the very first minutes after i saw that. I'm going to watch full video right now for the sake of it :D

He said explicitly, that when you bind a skill that is used by that form it will automatically shapeshift you when you press it. He was opening inventory just to show you on the ui how to shapeshift to set your keybinds and stuff.

I am pretty upset with the forced hybrid play of shapeshifting.

ill be severely gimped for wanting to play werewolf only. its very sad

additionally there seems to be very little synergy of werewolf with just about anything outside of attacking fast and just summoning wolves and buffing them.


They need some sort of charge generation, or a DRASTIC buff to lunar assault, something. As it seems right now werewolf only exists to hit an enemy with pounce