>And if your fighting in
>the air form, I'm generally
>winning.

Hmm. Doubtful, but I suppose it's up for debate.

>worry about that. There
>is also something else about
>it that would prevent this
>tactic, but I'll let that
>go for now. I'm still
>playing you know.

Just tell me when you die. You know you want to screw over all those other assassins.

>I would absolutely rather fight the
>tiger than the panther that
>you had.

This confuses me. Sure the old panther was slightly superior to the tiger in raw fighting ability. But pounce? Fear the pounce. Start trying to dust me? I'm going tiger every time. Figure I get at least an extra 2 rounds per dust compared to what I'd get if I shaped panther.

Plus, with panther you have an easy way to get away: just run. Sure I could go osprey and chase, but with the lag from all that shifting you'd be able to get away easily. Tiger gives the shifter the one thing he lacks - the ability to prolong combat (against classes that can't cast/commune word of recall).

And yes, there most definitely was a change. Panther's dodging ability (from typing "skills") went from "excellent" to "average". I think there's one rating in between those two, so it actually dropped two levels.