Nephilim83

Fully buffed mine is doing 8.9 fire and 8.9 slashing damage per hit, every 3 seconds, for 11.9 seconds. Radius is almost 9m. Hits, crits, grazes don't seem to make a difference to damage or duration oddly enough. This means that over 10 seconds it ticks 4 time (0, 3, 6, 9) for a total 71.2 to everything within a huge radius. At my level that damage is low but if combined with other on hit effects I think it could be more interesting (ie the meteors etc.)

Same problem reported here: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/98594-firearms-crossbow-infnitely-reloading/ It's been acknowledged by Obsidian, I could not find a solution to it and had to go back to an older save. By chance are you using Scordea's or Eccea's pistols?

All of your gear is gone during your shift. You are essentially naked except for some claws which will count as 2x 1H weapons. I have tested and can verify which is why I stopped playing mine. So all the magic items on a Shifter are useless for what you want to accomplish

I tried a Shifter/Barbarian for some time but grew a bit disappointed when all of your gear disappears when you change. No weapons, no armour, no rings, no cape. I felt a lot of choice was stripped out of the build and eventually gave up. I wish they made it so your gear mattered when Shifting.

You can't empower your Spiritshift

I have the same problem, I have to load an old save. It stays despite swapping weapons or unequipping/re-equipping. I'm using Scordeo's Trophy and Eccea's Arcane Blaster. My character is a Ranger/Chanter and I use wounding shot quite a bit. I can't find any pattern as to why this bug happens but it has been 10 times in the last 10 minutes. Oddly it never happens on my companion who uses dual pistols. That companion has no special attacks with them unlike my Ranger/Chanter with wounding shot.