Just curious. Shields and ranged attacks

[Dale]

If this forum had a random question sticky I'd have posted this there, as it doesn't really warrant its own thread. Maybe we should make one?

Anyway, I've always wondered why it is, despite being a plain physical attack, that ranged attacks cannot be blocked with a shield?

It just seems kinda odd that you can't considering one of the primary uses of shield has always been defending against projectile attacks. I can catch a giant Gigas axe and stop it cold, but arrows and rocks just hit me in the face? <,<;

I doubt this will be getting changed at this point, but I'm curious if that was intentional, or just something that got overlooked.

Effective ranged attacks are expensive, usually costing bullets, arrows, shurikens - so perhaps the developers wanted to give these types of attacks an advantage over other types of attacks to help make them more worthwhile. Would really suck if you were corsair having all your expensive bullets knocked away by a paladin with a shield, so in a way it makes sense.