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Just don't use it when you're Slowed or Stunned. It's meant for caster oriented Animists, you use it when you need to shift to melee. If you want a gish Vessel Spell to use most of the time, Embodiment of Battle is much more suited.Does anyone else believe with all the restrictions of battle forms, that losing an action was warranted? I think its a tad too much and would personally rank Darkened Forest Form lower as a result.
The loss of an action makes slow, stunned, flight, or any other circumstance in which an action is required that much more debilitating than for other PCs. Again this is all on top of current battle form limitations
I doubt anyone would use any battle form under those conditions to begin with but if you were already in form you would be brought down to this spell's default effectiveness. I believe just casting the named spell is more efficient if a caster needs (why?) to melee. Embodiment of Battle is much more suited and thus should be higher ranked then Darkened. This focus spell is functional and cool but mechanically not worth the rating presented in the guide. Also flying in combat sucks major with this; that's a sin