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Originally Posted by funkygrape
Botting is allowed.
As for weapon+shield, you have made a fair point.
The thing is, if we're speaking late game, all main 2-handers will ideally be aiming to get a shield as well, for obvious PVP purposes. (It'll still however be at the end of their to-do list)
Then on the other hand, shield bearers already have an advantage from wearing shield itself (additional defenses + block rate).
However it's rational and sensible to possibly consider having a separate mythical scroll for shield, that costs ~75% percent of the original, or something along those lines.
I have forwarded your suggestion to the staff. Thank you for taking your time to give valuable feedback.
Hope to see you around!
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I understand what you're saying, however even that has its issues. Shields are not worthless, as you said, and everyone knows that. However, what I took into account is that you have to double farm for the cards to even get it, so you are already spending double the time to get your weapon, when two-hander users spend only 1 time that (let's assume it takes 25 runs to get the cards, shield users run it 50 times), then you have to pay double to get the shield upgraded. At this point, if you ran a 100% PvP for your build, you'd be better off going blade and scrapping the idea of shield nukers, and getting the shield as your first weapon, because you'd wanna be as annoying as possible, and the 1 additional block from Seal upgrade is huge for that. If you're wanting to deal more damage, you sacrifice your shield physical defense, which is also a downside.
So basically, a shield has pros and cons, the pros are additional block and magic defense, but cons are double farming time, double price, double upgrading (plus, % stats and blue), farming for the materials to upgrade your shield. That basically 1 pro and 4 cons (or 2 pros and 6 cons if you want to count everything separately), so why not just go a glaive build with cold and fire and have a ton of HP and quite fancy defense instead?
I've always loved shields because DA DEFENSE!, but I really rarely went with a shield build in a coin or Forgotten World system because it was just extremely unfair for shield users and I can have nearly the same performance with a glaive/spear build, I just trade a little defense for offense but still have Snow Shield if I'm a nuker.
Hope this server will make it better than it currently is. Unless the developers promise they'll change it, I'm not going to play a shield build probably at all, because I don't wanna spend double/triple the time to get on the level of a non-shield user. Hope the server will be a blast anyway.