Dualwielding shields please

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Crizaig wrote:

Dual shields wouldn't work because you can't attack with a shield. The game won't allow for it. You'd have to literally change the shield to a weapon. This works for aesthetics but you'd lose any benefit of dual wielding shields as far as armor or block are concerned. And you'd have to rely on a limited selection of animations for the skills/attacks.

You couldn't solo and would be useless in groups until you got high enough level to get the aura skills in the passive tree. You would be a strength based class like the Marauder and have to waste a bunch of point to travel all over the passive tree for shield and aura skills.

Do you honestly believe that dual shields would work in this game? I haven't seen anyone give some ideas other than using melee weapon skills that wouldn't work because a shield is not considered a weapon.

Please, stop crying about me not liking the idea and give some ideas on how it would work, instead of making yourselves look like idiots and doing nothing but attacking me. Until then, dual shields is a stupid idea in my eyes.

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Crizaig wrote:

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AceNightfire wrote:

The moment you equip a second shield, the main hand is considered a shield-weapon. No problem in coding that. Dual-Shield doesn't mean both shields have to function as a weapon. The advantage is, that your main hand provides a huge defensive buff (more block, more armour/evasion/ES) and still can be used to bash enemies in the face. Ofc you won't do as much damage with the shield as with a weapon, but it's not meant to be a high DPS build.

Here some options how to use double shield:

- Double shield would be incredible good for summoners, because they have a skill that allows you to give your shields buffs to your summons. So having 2 shields means more buffs (but of course you have to travel a long way for getting from witch to, lets say, duelist/marauder part, if we consider the shield nodes are set there)

- High Defender, Aura, Taunt build. You are always at the front between the enemies and taunt them to attack you. With taunting you get alot of endurance charges, which gives you incredible health regeneration and with the second shield you can tank them even better. With this build you are depending on groups, because solo play will be difficult, but in a group you are a beast because nothing can bring you down

- 2 Totem Tank. You can set 2 totems like flame totem to deal damage and protect your flame totems tanking all the damage. Additionaly you can use firetraps on you that deals enough damage over time while the enemy stay in the effect while you easily tank the damage away and the totems are doing the rest.

- Dual Shield Templar with shield charge and tempest shield. An exception is, that with those skills you can use both shields and the damage adds up. This way using this skills would finaly be useful.

Only some ideas and I think there are alot more possibilities. :)

That would make summoners OP since shields have pretty awesome stats compared to other slots. Discharge was nerfed so it doesn't deal insane amounts of damage anymore. Dual Tempest Shield, yeah that won't be OP. Everything else you mentioned, it can already be done with existing builds.

There simply is no way to make it work without making a lot of changes to the game that would gimp other character builds or making them way OP. Really, you would be going all directions on the passive skill tree and your build would most likely never be efficient in Merciless.

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Crizaig wrote:

@WippitGuud - So you expect the developers to waste their time and rework everything just to implement dual shields? Changing the game mechanics is not easy and saying so proves you know nothing about writing code.