Can the Devs allow Dual Wielding Shields?

[Calintzpso]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvZSR2QpSoU

Still reading through this but to bring it to a middle ground like some have said might be out of SE's reach in this day and age.

Flyff has a class known as Yo-Yo fighters of acrobats. Tossing shield like shurikens that return to you. Think Xena Warrior princess but with spiked shields. The time and effort with reweighing the shields in game, the motions etc. for SE to add this or your idea however is probably to great.

However I could be wrong....SE, their PR department and translation team for FFXI sure like to take from others....Rift....Rifts....Magica Madoka Key Item bushin thing...Abbyssea heralded as the 'Cataclysm' heck I'm almost betting on voidwalkers or voids in general as being inspired by guilty crown.

[Yokai]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvZSR2QpSoU

However I could be wrong....SE, their PR department and translation team for FFXI sure like to take from others....Rift....Rifts....Magica Madoka Key Item bushin thing...Abbyssea heralded as the 'Cataclysm' heck I'm almost betting on voidwalkers or voids in general as being inspired by guilty crown.

You have things a bit mixed up here on some points. 'Bushin' is a Japanese term that far predates any anime. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushin ) and Vision of Abyssea came out six months before WoW's expansion - I think it's safe to say development on Abyssea began before there was public word of Cataclysm. And 'Rift' is a dictionary term that's far older than the game Rifts. Where do you think Rifts got the term?

And the idea of 'voidwalkers' is old, too. Pre-Lovecraft.

[kingfury]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvZSR2QpSoU

Still reading through this but to bring it to a middle ground like some have said might be out of SE's reach in this day and age.

Flyff has a class known as Yo-Yo fighters of acrobats. Tossing shield like shurikens that return to you. Think Xena Warrior princess but with spiked shields. The time and effort with reweighing the shields in game, the motions etc. for SE to add this or your idea however is probably to great.

However I could be wrong....SE, their PR department and translation team for FFXI sure like to take from others....Rift....Rifts....Magica Madoka Key Item bushin thing...Abbyssea heralded as the 'Cataclysm' heck I'm almost betting on voidwalkers or voids in general as being inspired by guilty crown.

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Interesting indeed 0.o Thanks for the feeback /

I would say they were more influenced by Rygar's throwing shield with the Yo Yo shurikan concept here, but it's interesting non the least. They most likely went with a Yo Yo for the practicality of a weapon actually returning to you since Rygar's shield is a bit unrealistic in that department. I would have to read more into the functionality though before I would consider them shield-like though, because the video displays a very offensive ranged display rather than blocking or reflecting attacks at the same time. Very cool though

In regards to the development time and workload, I just wanted to clarify that these would be new weapons entirely and our current standard shields would not have to be re-coded to function as melee shields. Folks would still be able to use a standard shield alongside these new melee shields if they wanted to, though they wouldn't really need to functionality wise (since these melee shields would be able to perform blocking) unless they had a really high end shield like an Ochain or an Aegis and wanted the stats from those shields.