More Scutums?

As fun as the game is, I really hate how there's been so few options for shield types. Practically our only options have been for Kites, while giving no options for the heavier, less frequent scutums, or the weaker, more frequent bucklers. More variety for shields, plz?

I read that as something else, I am now smirking :P

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Originally Posted by Lokier

I read that as something else, I am now smirking :P

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Your not alone.

Side note you can blame "Balance" for the lack of shields.

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Originally Posted by Lokier

I read that as something else, I am now smirking :P

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So glad I wasnt the only one I also didn't realise till I entered the post lol Click bait at it's finest lol

Yeah, me too. Thought this was going to be another bulge slider request thread at 1st glance

I read Scrotum to be completely honest with everyone lol.

TIL people be pervy around here.

They don't want some dumbass paladin to pick the wrong option so they just made one option. Granted, there's no reason to choose a kite or buckler over a tower, so I guess they kind of have to force it.

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Originally Posted by Thunda_Cat_SMASH

As fun as the game is, I really hate how there's been so few options for shield types. Practically our only options have been for Kites, while giving no options for the heavier, less frequent scutums, or the weaker, more frequent bucklers. More variety for shields, plz?

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It seems they dropped the Tower(High Str/Low Rate)/Kite(Med Str/Med Rate)/Buckler(Low Str/High Rate) shield type stat distinctions during 3.2 when they did the tank stat rebalancing.

They likely normalized all the i220+ shield types to Kite even though they still made Tower and Buckler models (look at Shield of the Twin Thegns and Sophic Shield for Tower/Scutum models and the Midian Metal Shield and Alexandrian Metal Buckler for Buckler models) so that they wouldn't have as many tank balance issues while they worked on 4.0.

If my understand is not wrong, an i270 Tower Shieldwas going to turn Sheltron into a ~32%+ single hit mitigation cooldown on a 30s recast.

Laaaaame... that's no fun...

Even if they've dropped the varying block rate ratio deal, there's no reason they can't add new scutum models to the game (and Tower, as well, for that matter).

Even if they don't, though, there's always glamour to allow you to make your kite shield look like another model. A lot of the scutums in the game already look pretty cool.

That reminds me of when the people get "Rusting Scutum" in the loot list in Stone Vigil, there's always someone that misreads it.

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Originally Posted by LineageRazor

Even if they've dropped the varying block rate ratio deal, there's no reason they can't add new scutum models to the game (and Tower, as well, for that matter).

Even if they don't, though, there's always glamour to allow you to make your kite shield look like another model. A lot of the scutums in the game already look pretty cool.

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I use a tower model for my pld glamour since it looks good! Buuuuut my complaint is there's no current tier tower shield/scutum models in game for actual defense, just varying types of kites.

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Originally Posted by Thunda_Cat_SMASH

I use a tower model for my pld glamour since it looks good! Buuuuut my complaint is there's no current tier tower shield/scutum models in game for actual defense, just varying types of kites.

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As I said earlier the Sophic Shield and Sharpened Shield of the Twin Thegns are Tower models.

If you look at all the shields released in 3.4/3.45, 4 models are Towers/Scutums (Sharpened Shield of the Twin Thegns, Sophic Shield, Shield of the Round, Dead Hive Scutum), 3 models are Kites (Heavy Metal Kite, Kinna Shield, (Augmented) Shire Shield) and 1 buckler (Alexandrian Metal Buckler).

I want a scrotum scutum