In Shadowlands, can we please take a look at Travel Form? (Druid)
Hey everyone, I wanted to take a moment to have a mini-rant about Travel Form and propose some fixes.
Since they merged Travel forms it is WONKY (and before you stay it, Stag Manual doesn’t fix the issues I’m wanting to have addressed).
First and foremost, they really need to allow it to be used indoors. It is very common for druids to shuffle between cat and travel form for root/snare removal. It’s so uncomfortable for this to only work in half of the locations. It’s a part of the class and needs to be treated as such. Indoors also removes our wild charge “leap” which is an incredible tool and off putting to suddenly not have access to. I realize outdoors travel form can have speed benefits, however they clearly have the tech to make the form dynamic. It already swaps between land/flight/water in real time dynamically. When entering indoors, they could simply apply combat speed (40%) rather than mount speed, dynamically.
My second major complaint is that while forms will adjust accordingly, leaving combat does not swap to Flight form when combat drops. This is a problem, specifically, because they combined Stag/travel form with Flight form. As it stands, you have to physically leave travel form, wait a 1.5 second GCD, then go back into the same form you were already in just to fly. This is incredibly clunky. Going from any other form to flight is not a problem, this is only an issue because the ground form is coded as the same “form” as flight, but your form doesn’t change to flight as combat drops.
Please support a better design for travel form. No class should have to change gameplay if it’s inside out outside, especially with the tech that exists now.
Thanks for listening. :)
Edit: I didn’t add this because it would be fixed by making travel form work indoors, but to add to the clunkiness of the form, unlike mounts, the spell is not greyed out when inside, so if you try to use it in an area where it’s unclear if it’s treated “outdoors,” the spell will try to go off, cancel your current form, and you’ll just end up in humanoid form...