Sure, but they haven’t. That leads me to believe doing so would affect every single monster you can transform into and I’m guessing they don’t want that.
Again, if it’s just transforming for the sake of transforming then making other demi-forms is the way to go. Why? Because demi forms are basically skin/costume changes. The new demi form AA suggests they can at least change AA’s and that’s a good thing. Balancing just 1 AA is way easier than balancing the 5 werewolf skills (that have to be stronger than all possible skill combinations you can create yourself).
You could literally call it “Demiform” instead of shape shifting
Take a form allowing you to change your size and race. You can have 3 sec of invulnerability and a skill lock out until you chose a form.
- your entire hotkey would be replaced with 3 keys for size (S/M/L) and 3 keys for race (beast/plant/insect) and 1 key for “transform”
- the 3sec invul is there to let you choose in peace. It’s long enough to let you press 3 keys for size, race, transform and short enough that it can’t be abused.
- skill levels can still increase duration of the form
- the new AA we got for the current demi-wolf could be a treatment for every race (not that many since there are only 3 we can change into)
transform could be “Recall form”
Transform using your last combination of size and race used in “Demiform”
- skill levels can still increase duration of the form
To delve deeper into what I said, the problem (I think) is because what ever form we transform into, it is quite literally the npc code being used. The form takes from the database of monster and place what ever restrictions they have onto us when we transform. Adding a variable to be able to control execution speed would mean adding it to the monster data. That would mean adding it to ALL the monsters in the database. The fact that it’s been over a year and they haven’t sped up transforms makes me believe this is the case. It is to the point that I think the reason they gave us lycan is because scratch isn’t so clunky.