In a world where the opposite is true that few things are baseline and most ability are spec specific they player base does not know what it is asking for or there is a mass separation of what the player base is asking for and how Blizzard has interpreted it.

I like shape shifting to have options, not like the old Power Shifting feral bullshit that blizzard did not like and changed the mechanics specifically to eliminate. By the way the talent tree is now, they are essentially introducing Power Shifting for all specializations and that is a step in the wrong direction.

I think the easiest way to deal with this would be to make up some kind of system where if we use a talent we could “channel the spirit of X (insert bear/cat/moonkin/tree) and do Y.” This would make you appear as if you were in that form for some amount of time depending on the talent, without removing the functionality of the form you’re actually in. Yes, it’s purely aesthetic, but it would make us feel more like the cool shapeshifters we’re supposed to be.

At the end of the day, I don’t condone what the guild or guilds have done in this situation. But, I also feel that they are doing what they have to, in order to maintain the level of success and even reverence that we have placed up on them. We, as the player base, get very invested in guilds at that level. We track them almost like people track celebrities in the gossip rags. They are doing what they need to, in order to keep us entertained and to keep themselves in the papers. We would be just as angry with them, if they weren’t on top of their game anymore.

It’s a Catch 22.