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Tanpachiro
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Tanpachiro

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I'm split on this one.

Reasons to support:
t85 is indeed missing shields
Passives on a shield might encourage people to use them. Might.

Reasons to not support:
None of the other ports armours have effects, why should the shield? Inconsistent.
Majority of the player base don't use shields, why try to force them?
Defenders have a passive, have damage, have armour AND give you access to shield abilities + dual-wield abilities. STILL people don't use them.

Overall it feels like it'll be a lot of development time for an update that will receive a lukewarm response at best.

07-Aug-2017 22:21:01

Stoic n Vain

Stoic n Vain

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Ports armour does have an effect already, but it's only to do with looting.

There are many single items in the game that have an effect on their own, I don't see a problem with the shield having an effect on its own.

I'm not trying to force anyone to use shields, just trying to make them more useful, as they should be.

People do use defenders.

You never know. They need to fix the tier gap anyway, which will happen someday even without any of my input. I'm just trying to hurry it along. The New Wild (instanced) <---------> Enhancing Combat and PVP

08-Aug-2017 01:55:51

Stoic n Vain

Stoic n Vain

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Not really sure what to say. Defenders sound interesting, but at the same time ports armour is meant to be tanky... defenders aren't as tanky as shields.

I guess I still like the idea :P

They could require a weapon component, along with trade goods to be made.
A tengu tsuba and some plate for the tetsu defender, for example.

Thanks Deltaslug. The New Wild (instanced) <---------> Enhancing Combat and PVP

06-Oct-2017 03:19:48

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