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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Leatherhead" data-source="post: 7094668" data-attributes="member: 53176">People were wondering why Shapeshifting is winning despite Spell Casting being far more powerful and arguably able to encapsulate all other options. And it's really all about the message itself.As opposed to a question like "What element of the druid do you consider to be the most important?", this isn't a question at all. Instead it's a statement followed by a command (and a hashtag, but that's not really part of the message). This causes the tweet to be worded in a way that implies consequence, namely the consequence of losing the two options you don't pick. Is it a limitation of the medium? Probably. The limited character space is one of the worst features of Twitter.Now, because people are naturally loss adverse, the language of this tweet causes people to examine how best they could minimize the losses presented by it. There are numerous other ways to obtain full spellcasting (or even partial spellcasting) with a nature theme. There are also numerous ways (though not as many) to obtain a combat pet. Shapeshifting isn't something that is so easily covered by any other option. Yes, there are spells that can cover it, but the animal shaped ones don't come online until level 7, which is mid-to-end of the playtime experience for most characters.  So you aren't going to start out with animal shapeshifting, and possibly may never see it. Which means in order to lose the least, you are going to keep Shapeshifting.</blockquote>

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