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Well, after a while of no major changes, I'm back at it again. Sage's Dragonology has always felt like one of the most lame skills in the game to me. It's a mastery skill that only works against Dragons, which is even worse than most mastery skills. Sure, if you max it, you get 3 INT, which is ok, but it still feels really lame, it's basically just "dump 5 skill points for 3 int". It seems to me, that if you were going to spend all that time studying dragons, rather than just becoming marginally stronger against them, wouldn't you want to become a dragon instead? Now this is more like it! Dragon Form is essentially Mini Berserk for Professors, albeit with a number of different nuances. For starters, you can only use Dragon Form when over the four elemental field spells, Volcano, Deluge, Violent Gale, and Gaia Power. (Astute readers might note that Gaia Power doesn't exist in the base game, but it's an Earth-version of the other field spells). Which Dragon you turn into depends on which field you're standing on when you activate it. Here's the Wind dragon after casting it on top of Violent Gale. Becoming a Dragon gives you a boost to Attack Power, Maximum HP, and Movement Speed, albeit to a way lesser extent than Berserk (only 150% HP at max level compared to Berserk's 300%). It also sets your attacking and defending element to be the same as the Dragon. This not only means that you'll instantly get the buff from the elemental field spell you're standing on, but it's also one of the only sources of Level 2 elemental armor for players, so if you become Water Dragon, you're instantly immune to Storm Gust. Take that spamming Wizards in WOE! Of course, a dragon with level 2 water armor would not enjoy Jupitel Thunder very much, so there are drawbacks. Also, don't think you're going to get sneaky and change your weapon or armor element after becoming a Dragon because you can't, like with Berserk your ability to change your equipment is locked and it also blocks all spells that change your weapon or armor element. In Dragon Form, you also have Large Size and are Dragon Race, which is interesting. This means that Hydra and Thara Frog cards instantly become useless against you, which is pretty great, though it does mean that the various Anti-Dragon equipment becomes a problem. Probably still worth it though. It also takes a lot of skill points to get Dragon Form, as Dragonology now has 10 levels and it must be maxed, and you need at least one elemental field spell too. As a Dragon, you can still cast spells. You gain access to the new Dragon Breath skill, which can only be used as a Dragon, and does strong physical damage and knockback, but your regular spells work just fine too. There's nothing stopping you from casting spells that don't match your element, either. This is probably kind of a silly change, but I think it's fun. Who doesn't want to run around as a Dragon? It also finally gives battle Professor the survivability and damage it needs to be competitive with the traditional caster Professor, and gives more value to the elemental weapon / field side of the skill tree, which is often overlooked. Under the hood, the transformation into the monster is actually very simple, it just uses the built-in SC_MONSTER_TRANSFORM. It's not difficult to check to see if you're over one of the elemental fields, as it can simply check to see if you have any of the elemental statuses like SC_VOLCANO, which are granted while standing in those fields. The biggest pain was getting it to properly apply the field bonus after you become a dragon and your armor changes, as the original implementation does not allow this (if you do not have the right armor type when entering the field, it does not check to see if you acquire it later), this took a bit of re-implementing.