I don't bother hiding my desire to have sexual intercourse with bears. Man, only three posts and this is already the best thread ever!
Seriously, though, while I guess a shape-shifted character would be interesting, I'm kind of psyched by the idea of being able to have combat pets that aren't daedra or some other form of extra-planar being. I'll have to think seriously about a class change for my Granny Weatherwax clone when this thing drops. Sorcerer was as close as I could get to a Discworld witch before, but I think Warden will probably work much better.