I must say, I really appreciate the way the shapeshift forms look, lots of love clearly went into them. From the sounds, the visual/textures, altered footprints in snow, animations, some specific npc interaction, and even subtle differences between player gender. Wereraven especially is just so very cool looking to me (although I find it odd that it has a loincloth when the werewolf doesn’t. Will feel very sad if they don’t come back for Grim Dawn 2.
The only thing I feel is a shame is that they feel kind of underpowered and limited in versatility. I’m already seeing builds and use cases where it is optimal to simply put only a single point into the shapeshift itself as the boost from that doesn’t seem substantial and you don’t get any more abilities. The inability to use WPS abilities, some lack of scaling in particular with wereraven’s basic attacks, as well as there seemingly being not that many pieces of gear that support and boost them, is also a bummer.
Minor nitpicks, but aside from the other mentioned things I wish that it replaced your paper doll in inventory while shapeshifted, and that you didn’t shapeshift/revert back when you die (ragdolling werewolf/wereraven).