When you are in travel form and go into water, you automatically change into aquatic form.
When you leave the water, you automatically change back into travel form.
HOWEVER, if you kind of swim at the surface, you will go from aquatic form to caster form sometimes.
What is that about???
Happening to me occasionally on my ZTroll after the newest patch.
This has been happening since BC (I’m only going that far back as that’s when I began playing and I first noticed it on my Druid). If you jump out of the water in aquatic travel form while still swimming it’s always gone back to default caster mode. It’s not a bug, it’s intended.
you guys are so dumb, its pretty obvious…
we are EVOLVING. We came from fish who learned to walk so when your in aqua form the game senses you are trying to evolve into caster forms.
I actually really hate that i switch to caster form when I jump out of the water in dolphin form. Sometimes I just wanna be like Free Willy, ya know?
I think we had a failure to communicate.
This has not happened since BC, since you did not auto change forms when entering/leaving water in BC.
This did not start happening after the last patch. This has been going on all of Legion and earlier I believe. I have just never bothered to post about it.
@Canteen - Huh?? If you jump out of the water while swimming, it will try to turn you into Stag (travel form), at least that is how it is supposed to work. If we could fly, it would turn you into flight form.
What IS happening is SOMETIMES, instead of turning you into stag form, you turn into caster form. Randomly.
Post copied from old forums. As a note, it’s not just a swap between land/sea travel form states as it should be, it randomly throws one entirely out of travel form, requiring a manual button press to swap forms again:
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A while back, I think the end of the 4th (present day: It was the 5th, not 4th) expansion, the travel forms were all combined onto one button that tries to (forces an ) auto-guess to form you should be in.
There are numbers of adverse effects of the combined travel form button (and few, if any, benefits), this is one of them. It has happened since the implementation of the combined travel form button, never working correctly from “day 1,” and has never been acknowledged that I’ve found nor fixed.
It has become even more noticeable (infuriating) with this expansion since the implementation of the cool-down on forms. The occurrence will throw you into a 1 second cool-down every time it screws up.
Edit: It happens nearly always in the water, but there does appear to be something new in the world that causes stag form to rarely but occasionally cancel on land as well. I had not seen this before the current expansion. The water one is just “all the %!#$ing time” compared the on-land problem.
Alex, I’ll take annoying bugs that will never be fixed, please.