Sword Oath Idea

[Shurrikhan]

anyone who has played WKC2 knows about the skill "Twin Blades". Probably a bad example since that game was mediocre but still kinda fun. In this stance the player would drop the shield and "clone" the sword they are currently holding and all attack animations are now altered a dual blade style of fighting. It looked really cool and help give the sword and board class a bit of variety.



Full Video of it in action here

I hope they do something like this for the PLD in the near future.

I wouldn't mind seeing that on Gladiator, but on a PLD...? I'd honestly just like to see us make utter badasses out of ourselves with the shield itself.
That being said, my lingering lore attachments aside, that looks awesome.

[Strident]

Woah, what if we could fuse our sword with our shield and then split them into dual sword-shields, removing our ability to block but doubling our parry and auto attack rate?

Would make Sword Oath broken as hell, 70% damage up.

[Valkyrie-Amber]

why not that would be great like this sword oath sheaf the shield and draw a holy ather sword.

Increase pld parry to be scaled like the other 2 tanks remove block.
Increase pld dps 15% and add tp regenerate + 10%-20%

yep I'm saying scrap the 50 pot auto attack presently on it for raw dps boost.

Shield oath lower damage loss to 5% so yes effectively you still lose 20% dps but
add to the skill each block return 20% of damage received but to keep balanced
Reflect should not work with tank buster and higher dps special attacks more rather
auto attacks only.

[Kemas]

Something...anything... Still no mention from the devs on PLD useless "utility." ::sigh::

[Kosmos992k]

I wouldn't mind seeing that on Gladiator, but on a PLD...? I'd honestly just like to see us make utter badasses out of ourselves with the shield itself.
That being said, my lingering lore attachments aside, that looks awesome.

Shield Oath should make our proactive shield skills more potent and the defensive ones reflect some damage/generate enmity.

[TheLastRaven]

I like the idea of dual wield swords it could add uniqueness to the class depending on how its handled. I like it, but i also don't like the sight of a dual wielding paladin doesn't seem right.

[Rustangel]

>Dual wielding PLD

[Syzygian]

This is way too OP unless you're talking about giving something like this to ALL of the tanks, which would be awesome, and solve a lot of the STR vs. VIT crap that permeates this game's tanking meta's mentality. I would absolutely love it if all the tanks got an ability that did this, and could keep their tanking and dps stances/buffs along the side. Then you could simply stack VIT like logic would suggest that you should, and toggle the "tank cleric" stance as appropriate. This would also make things like tanking outside of tank stance far more viable as you could keep the VIT stance on and switch to Sword/Defiance/Grit-off, or keep the tanking stance on but toggle to your STR stance.

TLDR awesome idea, but should be an option for all the tanks. Giving it to just one would make that one crazy-overpowered.

[Shurrikhan]

TLDR awesome idea, but should be an option for all the tanks. Giving it to just one would make that one crazy-overpowered.

You say that, but given the aesthetics of dual-wielding on a PLD already... now imagine dual-wielded Greataxes and Claymores... Additionally, it is only at an aesthetic at core. Its actual strength is a separate issue. For instance, in almost any MMO, offhand damage is inferior and accuracy requirements higher on the offhand than main-hand. When you consider normal Sword Oath on a 1.7s blade, that would be 50 extra potency on each AA, each hitting for 100 potency x speed/3.0 (= 57 potency), which is already close to double AA dps.

[brightsuzaku]

I've nothing really to add to fix Sword Oath, aside from the fact that yes, it is indeed really underwhelming as is. I just want to say that I am a big fan of dual-shielding, and it's stupid, but you can't take my dreams from me~~~~~

Also, nice to see WKC get mentioned!
Still angry at Rhitahtyn sas Arvina and his dual gunshields. I can dream.