I wallow in my ignorance as I did not really want to play too much of the Beta and now I suffer for it. I originally thought a Beastmaster (Stalker+Shifter) would be best but I am unsure. Are there any recommendations someone could make to me for a good build making full use of Shifter abilities, including stat allocation, etc? Many thanks in advance!

if you’d like to see your werewolf watcher roundhouse kick a dragon, choose monk.

Best option for a shifter who wants to focus on the forms? Not multiclassing. Spirit shift scales by power level, so single class gets improvements earlier, and long term can get a full three power levels (with the tier 9 passive) above multi-class.

All the martial classes have their own appeal, though Monk is likely going to be the most popular, at first at least.

All the martial classes have their own appeal, though Monk is likely going to be the most popular, at first at least.

 

Barbarian/Druid sounds fun.

Best option for a shifter who wants to focus on the forms? Not multiclassing. Spirit shift scales by power level, so single class gets improvements earlier, and long term can get a full three power levels (with the tier 9 passive) above multi-class.

I had not considered this. I imagine the new Nature Godlike Bonuses would come in handy? Which race would you recommend?