Having played a few shifters, with different focis, I found something that is quite annoying. One cannot retrive alone... Even if there is none at the opposing cabal to defend.
Even while having the third tier form in both the minor and major foci, I still had a problem with this... leaving me at as a rank 40ish shifter and still not able to reclaim ones item.
Barely as an offence shifter I managed it after like 6 attempts...
Then my view of game balance is somewhat twisted, as almost any class, can manage to retrive at the rank of 30... or less in some cases.
Even healers will manage this...
And as a shifter, atleast I expect I should be somewhat of a fighter... Just a bit annoyed at this....
I dont mind that the defence forms I have had gets tooled by any warrior, or even that the offence forms I've had could not hold their own against a fair warrior... Even with preps... But something should be done.... Its fairly easy to see when a class that is supposed to be the mage "warrior" is not able to take down a warrior even while prepped to the teath...
Just my 50 cents....
LH