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Kelly Br00k

Kelly Br00k

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It's been bugging me for quite some time just how scarce shield overrides are in the store. From the top of my head I can only recall the Solarius, Owen's and a few replica ones. In all honesty, Solomon's REALLY needs to stock up in shields!

Thinking about it, the possibilities are numerous:
1. Manticore, Ornate and Fae shields (could be a different one for melee, ranged and magic for added variety);
2. A Nefarious shield with a big, scary eye right in the middle (one-handed Nefarious weapons would also be welcome so we could wield them along);
3. A Brutal shield with a, well, brutal look to it (I understand Brutal overrides are all apparently discontinued, but it'd still be a nice addition);
4. A flaming shield to go perfectly along with the fiery weapons already present (the Solarius shield already does a well enough job, but an actual scorching one would be better);
5. An opposite shield to the Solarius with an eerie and bluish look to it (Lunarius?);
6. A Vitality shield (implementing one-handed Vitality weapons would be great to go along, perhaps as an additional Accessories pack?);
7. And many more!

I'm aware shields don't exactly see that much use, but I still believe there should be at least a few more added to Solomon's even if just for FashionScape 's sake. As it is, there are quite a lot of weapons but virtually no shields to go with them! I often find myself forced to use 2h or dual-wield overrides because I simply cannot manage a good counterpart to most weapons! It's quite a nuisance, really. :|


Please feel free to drop a comment to state what you think! And please do go ahead and make further suggestions! ^_^



CHANGELOG
16-04-17: Corrected a few typos and added one more shield concept.
18-04-17: Added another shield idea.

15-Apr-2017 05:35:28 - Last edited on 18-Apr-2017 17:17:20 by Kelly Br00k

Ladyolake
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Ladyolake

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I too noticed the lack of shields but not many people use them anymore. But your ideas are all very good and some would be nice additions. The richest person is not who has the most. It is who Needs the least.

16-Apr-2017 12:54:18

Mayahai

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Yes we need more shields. An animated flaming shield would be completely rad!
Remove TH, and put stuff from TH to Solomon's store as guarantees. No disappointment to the average player who only uses free keys which yield trash, and those who do buy into MTX can have a clear idea what the thing they want is going to cost them.

18-Apr-2017 13:23:32

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23-Apr-2017 11:04:48

Steelweaver

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[#E15EK0Y7I] said :
I don't think you'll get much support for this as I barely see people use Shields in Runescape.


Because shields sacrifice too much DPS and don't actually absorb enough damage to fully justify the DPS cut outside of tanking on suuuuper high end bosses? And even then, defenders or a shield swap. (Because it's apparently never good to be 100% tanky, from my I-Don't-Really-Boss PoV.)

OT: I'd definitely support more shields. So many of them just... don't look good.
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