
Originally Posted by
Tidis
It may be his opinion but it's backed up by facts, facts that the DoT a WAR will lose using a shield and, I assume an Axe when compared to using a GA is massive, especially when factoring in what shield WAR has access to and their fairly average shield skill, over the course of a battle as he says, the war will shed more enmity from damage taken than they make up with damage mitigation using a shield.
What is opinion is definitely you saying you've played with some good warriors that use a shield, conversely, my opinion is that no good warrior would use a shield.