Guild Wars 2

Hey, i have read a lot of post around the useless of the animal form and a lot of answer how to make them better. So in this thread i wanna completely reshape the forms and read what you think.
My idea is to give to the norn more versatility giving to each form a role:
- Bear Form represent fortitude and self-reliance so this form should be more close to the guardian profession,warrior or a mix of two in the skill reshape.
- Raven Form represent cunning, trickery, and knowledge so this form could be a mix betweeen mesmer and air elementalist
- Snow Leopard Form is considered to be stealthy and solitary so rogue like style, maybe this is the class that need less reshaping.
- Wolf Form represent loyalty, ferocity and hunt , he could be a mix between necromancer and hunter.

In this way every profession a choose for my Norn a can have a form that give me a different play style and so more versatility.

I have made an example of the reshaped Raven Form:
(1)Trick feathers: a ranged attack that shot feather with 50% chance to apply vulnerability and 50% chance to apply blind.
(2)Wind Blast: the same as original skill but with the addition to apply confusion
(3)Clone plumage: an evade skill that leaves a clone to yuor initial position(when destroyed not butterfly but feathers)
(4)Shriek : can be left the original
(5)Call the lighting : a lighting from the sky hit the target for heavy damage and stun.

That would be cool, but imbalanced. Races are balanced around the fact that all racial skills pretty much suck.

Shurimpu.2048:

That would be cool, but imbalanced. Races are balanced around the fact that all racial skills pretty much suck.

Sure racials are supposed to be worse then class elites, but other racial elites are a least decent. I actually found the charr warband or the hounds of balth to be quite usefull for dmg and for distraction. The Charrzooka deals some decent dmg.
The Norn transformations are actually worse than an empty eliteslot because they hinder your movement in battle and remove half of your skills.

I like the OPs suggestion of tying the forms to class-roles, makes them looked more focused and not just a random bunch of “claw, scratch and howling stuff”

How about just having the forms able to attack while moving? Having to stand still in one place to complete an attack doesn’t have any sense. Those animals are supposed to be agile, it’s not like wearing a dredge mining suit or a golem armor.