Shield Charge

not sure why i'm not able to shield charge with a wand. nothing in the description on shield charge says i'm not allowed to charge with a 'range weapon'. would be nice if they either fixed the limitation text of the gem or allowed to use the gem with the damage range of the weapon, what ever it is
Last bumped on Mar 31, 2018, 8:49:10 AM
Shield Charge is a Melee skill. You can't use any Melee skills with ranged weapons.
Last edited by Abdiel_Kavash#5296 on Mar 30, 2018, 9:13:40 PM
but why can it not scale damasge off of a wand just the same? just seems rather annoying.
if you have a shield equiped, you should be able to shield charge
Last edited by Beanzi#0294 on Mar 30, 2018, 9:30:20 PM
I'm going to quote Mark from here:

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Mark_GGG wrote:
Dealing melee damage with a non-melee weapon is almost certainly achievable, but certainly not possible with the existing system, and the changes to allow it would likely involve tracking down a lot of weird bugs due to existing things making entirely reasonable assumptions that would be invalidated.

I suspect there might also be design considerations with it being complicated to understand.


Full discussion about the same question: link
Last edited by Abdiel_Kavash#5296 on Mar 30, 2018, 9:32:37 PM
does not answer the question. if you can still shield charge with no weapon equipped, why can you not shield charge with a wand? obviously the damage can be calculated as if it was a melee weapon without shooting a projectile. it's purely a movement skill, and should be treated as thus
no weapon counts as melee, range weapon counts as range weapon.
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Beanzi wrote:
it's purely a movement skill, and should be treated as thus


It most certainly is not... played Facebreaker Charger in 3.0, one of the most enjoyable Melee builds I've ever played, heaps of fun. ;)

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