I haven’t played in a while, but I swear it used to be possible to shift from flight form to prowl midair (I often used to dive bomb out of the air into a room for a quest and stealth midair to pass guards on the way in).
Leveling my Zandalari, I can no longer do this (with a message “You cannot do that while shapeshifted”.)
I’ve ticked/unticked the auto dismount while flying option, as while as trying to toggle the /console autounshift setting, with neither having any effect.
Did something change, or have I somehow changed a setting without knowing about it? I can theoretically do it with a macro to cancel flight form but my druid consumes an absurd amount of macros already and I’d rather not if I can avoid it.
I mean you can do it. Ur just being silly. I test it and you can cancel flight by pressing button again and then prowl. You can press cat form THEN prowl to the same effect. You can /aura cancel flight form in a macro then prowl.
You can’t press flight form again if flight form is in a macro with another ability it will use on flight form. Pressing Cat form requires a GCD before you can prowl. Using a macro for cancel aura > prowl requires two keypresses; the first cancels the aura, the second changes to moonkin.
Again; it used to be possible for me to press moonkin form, or cat form, or prowl, while flying in flight form, and immediately transition to that form without delay, macro, or multiple key presses. Saying “you can get around it” doesn’t answer the question of “why can’t I do it anymore?”
I’m not being difficult, I just don’t want to change the way I did it by adding atleast an extra keystroke or macro, along with potentially a delay (even if only minimal). It’s something that didn’t used to be required. If you don’t mind pressing travel form again or using a cancelaura macro that’s fine, but that’s not what I’m asking.
You cannot cast catform while flying in travel form without a macro, which requires multiple presses (the first cancels travel form, the second casts cat form, cat form won’t register before cancelling travel form).
I’m already using one of those solutions; I don’t want to be. Hence, I made the thread. I know that I can cancelaura or manually hit travel form. I don’t want to. Please stop replying telling me I can.
I literally am doing this. I wrote the macro. I shifted to cat OUT OF flight form directly into cat form without pressing flight again and it AUTOMATICALLY put me in prowl using the macro. That macro can replace your cat form on your bar as it works even when prowl isnt’ available.
There are many ways to accomplish your goal and moaning about why it changed when it didnt actually change is silly.
Can you accomplish your goal? Yes. Who cares stop being dumb
Great, that’s awesome for you. I’m glad it worked for you, the way you want it to. Now please stop replying and let someone else who knows how to fix my problem.
Sorry for completely and utterly solving your problem. If you need assistance pressing buttons I can’t help you any further.
Replace cat form on your bar with:
/use cat form
/use prowl
and you get the EXACT function that you desire,
In any case if the point was to be able to do what you desired it’s solved. If the problem is to complain to the devs and hope for a real response beyond player community solutions…LOL
I’m ALREADY USING a macro to stealth from flying. I’m ALREADY AWARE of the option you offer. I said so in the first post in the thread, before you replied.
I do not want to use a macro to perform a function I can avoid using one for. I use a lot of macros, and do not have much spare room for more.
This option does not work for moonkin. I cannot transfer directly to moonkin while flying. Using /cancelaura Travel Form does not directly transfer me to moonkin form, it requires pressing the button twice. If I press the button once it cancels flight form and does not change to moonkin form. No macro that I can find transfers me from flying flight form to moonkin form without multiple keypresses, which I do not want to do.
I cannot spell out any more clearly that your answer is answering a problem that I never stated that I had. You are providing me with a macro solution where I specifically stated that I know a macro will work and want to avoid using one, and where in another situation that macro does not work.
What you are doing is akin to replying to someone “how can I get from a to b without driving a car? I used to catch the bus but it doesn’t seem to run anymore” by saying “that’s easy, just use a car”. It is contextually nonsensical.
Hmm ur right about boomkin and being forced to use TWO globals to /cancel aura travel form and /use moonkin form.
I don’t believe it’s a bug but was changed to stop certain abilities being used directly outside of flight form. Either for a quality of life change causing accidental ability presses (moonfire, sunfire, brutal slash etc. etc.) from pulling you out of form.
The other option is some sort of pvp balance w/ instant flight form and world pvp
The only ability that pulls you out of flight in ONE global into boomkin form is incarn.
I’d submit a bug for boomkin directly out of flight form, but I’m guessing this was somehow a conscious decision from the dev team for some reason
Ok, I’ve found an answer if anyone else is looking in the future and manages to make it through the garbage above.
There is a bug that means that sometimes the CVAR autoDismountFlying becomes “stuck” regardless of the setting you use on the default game menu. Mine was stuck to 0 regardless of whatever it was set to be. Manually setting it to 1 using advanced interface options has fixed my problem; I can now switch from flight form while flying to any form using the default ability key without macro. Prowl still requires a macro, but atleast it fixes the moonkin problem.
Nah, it just wasnt working. Even manually setting cvar via command line, the variable was still stuck at 0 when looking in aio. It’s at 1 now though, so working fine. It doesn’t seem to be a common issue, it took a long time before I happened upon someone else posting something about it back on the old forums.
I have no issue going from flight form, into cat form. I do this all the time when not in BFA content. You can even be flying, shift to any other form to propel yourself forward a bit, then go back into flying form, or cast spells. Aslong as you are out of combat. If you are wanting to go from Flying to Cat, simply click, or press the keybind associated with said forms. For me it goes something like this. Shift+4 = Travel form, Im now flying. Shift+3 puts me into cat form, then Shift+E puts me in prowel. Prowel doesn’t share a GCD with cat form. You don’t even need a macro. I don’t use one, never have.
So you cannot power shift anymore as the act of shifting eats a global. You can cancel the aura that is flight form and immediately use prowl, which activates catform for you. Druids got to be two opressive in certain game modes so this was the fix.
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