When you polymorph, and the server saves your character as indicated with the flashy green lights, you suddenly move incredibly slow under water. I almost drowned to death because of this.

Please fix

BioWare should have this bug fixed in patch 1.69.

Score.

Just a reminder to folks that this bug is still out there.

Can't there be a brief work-around? Perhaps freedom of movement for sharks?

actually, this could be entirely solved if Wildshape were to behave more like the Shifter script. It would, incidentally, also make Wildshape feel much less... clunky.

If you can transfer into shark form you can cast freedom of movement.

Relinquish If you can transfer into shark form you can cast freedom of movement.

freedom of movement does not last long, while a druid can effectively stay in shark form until they are bored with it

also, it completely precludes any druid from using any form underwater... unless they really feel like moving slow and possibly drowning. remember we can shift long before we can cast freedom of movement and shark form isnt the only viable form underwater

So you just rest before freedom runs out rinse and repeat.

Relinquish So you just rest before freedom runs out rinse and repeat.

Stop suggesting things that actually don't work.

I'm allowed to suggest whatever I'd like to.

Oroborous

Relinquish So you just rest before freedom runs out rinse and repeat.

Stop suggesting things that actually don't work.

So? Your suggestion doesn't work! I can stick my finger in a light socket too, doesn't mean I should at every chance I get. :P

I suggest oroborous sticks his tongue in an electrical socket

Er- I mean Just wait till the patch comes out >_<

The nature of the 'bug' is when the character 'reshifts' all bonusess are re-applied to the character, item weights recalculated. The script is probably thinking they are wearing armor (which they probably aareif they unshift), and therefor applying the movement speed penalty. There isnt really a buff that can stop this. If freedom of movement did suddenly allow unrestricted underwater movement, I'd consider it more of a bug than this.

As it is now, I beleive there -may- be a way to fix it, it's just up to the DMs to see if it is desireable.

Relinquish So you just rest before freedom runs out rinse and repeat.

cant rest underwater

underwater areas are ... quite expansive

this simply is not a solution. Worse, it doesn't even touch on the fact that a young druid may want to use a wildshape underwater... for the spell like abilities that do not have guaranteed failure, only to find out that they are now near immobile (think magical slow + heavily encumbered + stealth + search speed). And this near immobile state remains until the druid leaves the water. shifting back to human form does not fix it.

Cruzel The nature of the 'bug' is when the character 'reshifts' all bonusess are re-applied to the character, item weights recalculated. The script is probably thinking they are wearing armor (which they probably aareif they unshift), and therefor applying the movement speed penalty. There isnt really a buff that can stop this. If freedom of movement did suddenly allow unrestricted underwater movement, I'd consider it more of a bug than this.

As it is now, I beleive there -may- be a way to fix it, it's just up to the DMs to see if it is desireable.

indeed there is a fix. and yes it is up to the dms to decide if they want to spend the time to do it. also, freedom of movement does indeed correct the problem, allowing you to move at full speed underwater, it just doesnt last very long and is only available to level 7+ druids.

So it comes down to... replacing wildshape with a limited Shifter script, or waiting till 1.69 comes out... which could be a while still.

AScottBay BioWare should have this bug fixed in patch 1.69.

This was not fixed by 1.69.

Seems like slapping Freedom of Movement on sharks would be a very easy way to fix this I don't see why it's not done!

The shifter and, as far as I know, werecreature systems are not plagued by this.

Rather than granting druids Freedom of Movement while underwater, it seems to me that it might be more balancing to simply take these shifting systems and strip them down to basics for general druid use.

At the least, it should be possible to add a check on the system-if you're polymorphed shark-the system can check if you have a movement decrease and remove it. That would be wonderful; as it is, sure druids can't drown but they can't actually move since the speed decrease is so terrible. I can try to move down a hall and have time to go get a soda before I get there.