Sword Oath Idea

[Strident]

Frankly speaking, this would be a massive nerf. Paladins do not have massively differentiated vitality and strength ratings, especially not with strength or melded gear (which they should be wearing), and switching the two means nothing compared to the damage boost conferred by the current Sword Oath. Furthermore, reducing enmity generation is an even bigger nerf. You can't even be in Sword Oath while tanking; this puts Paladin even more behind in DPS with Dark Knight and Warrior.

[Marxam]

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.

[Kosmos992k]

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.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, a thousand times yes, only, please no Flemron 108 to get the skill....

LOL! I had 1000s of hours in that game, and loved it, a pity SCEA and D3 Publisher had to bail on the game early....

[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.

[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.

[Synestra]

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 would lie if i said i wouldnt like to see this, always loved DW classes and this would be awesome as fuck! Maybe SE will do this in future as i really dont see they can keep adding too many new jobs due balance reasons, maybe this is could be potential off-spec for PLD's(tbh DRK should have been PLD's DPS off-spec instead being a totally new job).

[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::

[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.