Seriously. Play through the bad forms. It can be worth it in the end. Just the fact that you got a reaver shifter to final forms is an accomplishment.

He had amazing forms and I'm not sure why he did this, but it makes me sad.

You were one of my only groupmates and I'm going to miss ya out there!

Utility enlivens are terrible and so are Reaver powers for the way I prefer to play.

Forms were cobra and silverback, which to many would be a dream combo. It just wasn't a good mesh for me.

Re: leveling, I did a fair amount of soloing which while it can be tedious, can also be super easy if done correctly.

Ack. I just dumped a shifter because I didn't get cobra. If only there was a better way.

Welcome back!

Utility seems good, if somewhat situational. What is the gold standard for well-balanced enlivens?

To me, the "best" set of them comes from either water or air. I like utility forms the best but its hard to be a utility major over pretty much any other because of the lower impact the enlivens offer.

My old goto shifter when I played them a lot was svirf D/U.

Having never played air or water majors, those enlivens look excellent. Deftness of the falcon gives evade+dodge+dex boost, which sounds better on paper than the equivalent defense enliven.

With your svirfs, did you get much use out of Skin of the Displacer Beast or Recovery of the Snake? I've never seen the former trigger, and the latter doesn't give much regen (~7 hp).

I believe skin and recovery work better on forms that already excel at evade and regen, but can't swear to it. Agility seems better than deftness from a dodge perspective, but again, I cannot see the code.

It's interesting that I remember in a trivia contest once it was said that air is the least chosen major. I've only taken it for deftness* and if I'm playing a char that has to be up in the air a lot. Flying with a minor form takes LOTS of mana.

Edit: *Deftness AND the one that one that makes you use less mana per tick.

Was good to have someone else around.

Think we might have got Amdromeda too if I hadn't failed telluric surge at just the wrong moment.

Which reminds me, are wights immune to thornheart?