Woodie - simple changes required -

[ShadowDuelist]

Edit: all of these things have been implemented since the latest hotfix. Thank you klei <3

 

First off I apologize with the devs in behalf of the (sometimes rude) community when expressing their concerns. I think that what they did with Woodie is great in concept and art, but the problems pointed out by most people, myself included, are the amount of damage taken by the idols, and the extremely short time of transformations to make it worth it.

It doesnt matter if they are cheap, even as cheap as they are, the amount of damage and short time make the forms very hard to make useful.

I believe that 3 simple changes would satisfy most people:

• Considerably more transformation time: Either add (much) more time to all the creature forms, enough to do something meaningful, or just add more time as goose, and let moose and beaver actually regain beaverness as they do what they must so you can actually make your transformation worth the cost and risk. I know it has been taken into account the fact that you can mistake the forms, or someone can force feed you and idol, however the drain for not doing what you are meant to do as that form can let you quickly out, so that shouldn't be a problem, just wait a few seconds for the transformation to go away if you want out.
• Lower the initial damage taken: the idols shouldn't damage you that much, specially if you are going to fight, you start off as heavily damaged which is never a good idea. Lower the damage taken to 15 damage, paired with my previous suggestion it will make it worthwhile.
• Give the initial drain of meter a few grace seconds, at least 2 or 3 seconds after you first transform before it kicks in, to give you some time to start doing what you have to: usually it takes a few seconds to engage an enemy as the moose, and the heavy drain already takes you to half your charge even before you could do anything. Enemies are dinamic and don't stay next to you.