For me, Micros' whole post was a "huh" moment.
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Caster form between forms has nothing to do with mashing the on-off button for bear form.
No one said that caster form between forms was a result of mashing any buttons at all.
What was said was that trying to change in to bear from cat at the same time as being stunned because of latency is one problem. (because there's a transitional phase of going to caster before you move into the next form)
The second problem comes from standing there in caster while stunned and "then" smashing the bear button to get into bear form as soon as the stun wears off only to find yourself going from 'stunned caster form' to 'bear form', and then right back into a newly 'stunned caster form' as a result of having hit the bear button too many times.
The OP has suggested a caster form button specifically so that spamming your bear button doesn't make you go bear, caster, bear, caster, bear, caster, etc.
and instead, spamming your bear button would just put you into bear form and hitting it again would do nothing. AKA you could spam your bear button while stunned and not worry about hitting it too many times by the time stun does wear off.
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The only time going caster between forms is a real problem is if you're trying to go from Moonkin to bear form because then you lose your armour if stunned between forms.
Except you missed entirely what the OP was trying to say.
The 'real problem' the OP was trying to comment on has nothing to do with going from moonkin to bear specifically. Or any form to another form specifically.
The problem the OP was talking about is that because caster form doesn't have it's own button, the spamming of your bear button while stunned and taking a beat down from a rogue, will often result in you changing into bear, immediately followed by going back in to caster and then potentially stunned again... simply because the bear button serves as your "change into caster from bear" and your "change into bear from another form" all in one button.
In my above post I made a suggestion that wouldn't fix the whole problem, but it would likely remove some of the headache by removing the transitional phase caster form that 'always' is there when you change from bear to cat, or cat to bear, or bear to flight, or flight to cat, or w/e.
In high latency, while in cat form, if you hit your bear button you very well may end up going into caster form for up to 2 or 3 seconds before it changes you into bear form and if that transitional phase wasn't there at least that much of it wouldn't be a problem.
Edited, Jan 24th 2008 10:32pm by Torzak