With these changes you become viable and can access all your forms in combat. As it is currently, the shifter is nerfed of it's true usefulness until it gets all his controls and by then it is so close to getting the major forms that the shifter powers to those ranks.

Very few shifters wait about at the mid ranks to PK and they rush ranking and rob their groups of RP experience so I think it would be a good change and not an overpowered one as they are still limited by the power of their forms.

*LIKE*