As of about a month ago, I get the error “You are in shapeshift form” when trying to switch from bear or cat form into travel form, when trying to mount, or when trying to use items like my hearthstone. These buttons are also greyed out. Notably, this does not happen in treant or moonkin forms (and also does happen in travel form).
My other druid friends do not have this issue.
I have tried switching specializations, disabling all addons, and switching computers. This seem to be somehow a character-specific issue.
The only other similar thread I’ve found is: Unable to use travel form while in any other Druid Forms
Rebirth is also not usable in cat/bear forms, which is a huge issue for raiding.
I haven’t been able to use hearthstone (or many other on-use items) from travel form all expansion, on any of my druids. In the past, it would just do as it does from other forms, and auto-shift me out if I couldn’t do something from a particular form. Now I receive the error either “You are in shapeshift form” or “you can’t do that while pacified.”
I assumed it was an expac change for everyone and am surprised to hear you were able to until a month ago!
That said, I’ve not had the error shifting direct to travel form from bear (I haven’t played feral). That seems like it would be very problematic.
There’s a cvar that allows and prohibits changing out of forms with skill buttons. It defaults to allowing it, but there are mods and macros that disable it and then fail to restore it afterwards. You should be able to enable it with the following:
/run SetCVar ("autoUnshift", 1)
Capitals are necessary for SetCVar, but optional for autoUnshift. I’m not sure why this doesn’t work with the easier /console command any more - it just fails silently now.
This is only possible from Bear form, and only as Guardian spec. It costs 30 Rage, and like any other skill if you don’t have the resources it won’t work - but it will also not automatically un-shift you even with the above as it’s considered a valid Bear spell in those circumstances. Non-Guardians and forms other than Bear will require you to un-shift but it should happen automatically. This includes Predatory Swiftness, which does not specify Rebirth in its list of available spells.
This is a unique situation with Flight Form. Near as I can figure it’s something to do with detecting whether you’re on the ground or not, which seems to have undergone several changes over the last decade (back when it was implemented you never were). Spells should work with the above cvar set, but items are less forgiving.
Even the Auto Dismount in Flight option doesn’t seem to help this.
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This was the solution! Thank you so, so very much.
The last patch broke my regrowth macro (one which prevents me from casting/swapping out of cat form if Predatory Swiftness isn’t active), so I had replaced it with:
/run SetCVar("autoUnshift",0)
/use [@mouseover,help][@player]Regrowth
/run SetCVar("autoUnshift",0)
That is what broke everything.
I’ve updated it to:
/run SetCVar("autoUnshift",0)
/use [@mouseover,help][@player]Regrowth
/run SetCVar("autoUnshift",1)
Which prevents me from casting regrowth without predatory swiftness, but also restores the ability to cast other spells which would “break” you out of cat form.
