Checking in for the Summer - Has Shapeshifter issues been addressed, or even acknowledged?

Druid
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Last I checked, Shapeshifter skills across the board suffered from a host of issues, in addition to Druid overall. Have any of these even been acknowledged? ;

  • Overpower & Fortify do not scale effectively, largely due to the base calculation (Crits don’t count here, a crit build is its’ own thing)
  • Poison DoT does not stack, or have any means of overcoming monster resistance at high levels
  • Rapid changing (Quickshift) simply falls off, a lack of damage and subpar items
  • Druid’s Uniques & Aspects lack the combined powers that other Classes enjoy
  • Zero synergy with Companion skills, minimal with magic skills

I won’t even get into the bugged interactions here, that’s simply the big gameplay stuff I recall offhand. Has there been any mention of a serious overall, or still just token updates? Any info is appreciated

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Only this. Not even the new unique works well.

I tried to make builds for S8, but I’m always hamstrung by stupid limitations.
Gathlen’s for Stoneburst? No, only works with Storm skills.
Proccing Stoneburst via NF? No, only manual casts can proc NF and that automatically makes the passive worthless.
Poison boulder? No, Rabid Bear only works with GR. That alone limits the build, it requires NF, GR is made for overpowers and at the end poison doesn’t stack well and is automatically worthless.

For S8 we have Cataclysm (again but in a much more annoying form) and very maybe Stoneburst (also annoying with having to manually time the bursts).
I’m not going to fall for Shred or similar again. Tried that in S7, fell off hard in T3, got no real buffs and the game is on top of it harder now.

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Tragic. I previously tried going all-in with Quickshift, had a top roll Hunter Zenith & Wildheart, I also struggled at T3. Ah well, maybe next year.

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Tying to make a build with Grizzly Rage? You can’t reduce the cooldown until GR has ended, so half of the time your build doesn’t work.
A poison build? The posion support is weirdly spread across bear and wolf, so you can never take them all.
Any Earth build? You’re forced into Overpower + Vasily + Ursine, since that’s by far the best and our “the best” is needed for T4.

I tried making a Gathlen’s build with Stoneburst, NF and Banished Lord’s, but it’s just an inferior version of the standard Vasily + Ursine build.