New tanking abilities in the expansion thread!

[TouchandFeel]

@Brannigan

I agree that Shield Swipe is pretty meh and could be made more useful and interesting.

So to combine and riff off two of your ideas, how about if shield swipe was made so that it negated the reduced damage output part of ShO for a very short time (3-5 seconds?), which would give you just enough time to "combo" another attack like Spirits or Circle off of it to do more damage. That would make it much more useful and would make it a regular part of a PLD MT's rotation.

[Brannigan]

@Brannigan

I agree that Shield Swipe is pretty meh and could be made more useful and interesting.

So to combine and riff off two of your ideas, how about if shield swipe was made so that it negated the reduced damage output part of ShO for a very short time (3-5 seconds?), which would give you just enough time to "combo" another attack like Spirits or Circle off of it to do more damage. That would make it much more useful and would make it a regular part of a PLD MT's rotation.

Honestly, I've thought about that in the past and I would absolutely love it if they did that. That alone would probably keep me from switching to Dark Knight. If they slightly nerfed bucklers mitigation-wise and buffed tower shields it could make for some interesting gear choices too.