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[Ace Attorney]

Anyone else not fond of it? Does the upgrade change it?
I am doing a Warrior Hawke but may skip it just for that and it also lowers DPS which means lower threat.

Modifié par T3hAnubis, 14 mars 2011 - 06:50 .

[Feranel]

It definitely factored into my decision to 2 hand tank, fun factor =D. So far the tradeoff in offense to defense hasn't really hurt me much.

[Itkovian]

The animation changes to show why you do less damage. There is some logic to it, where your character is meant to change to a "turtling up" stance where only quick thrusts are done while the shield remains in place.

Of course, the effect is ruined by the exaggerated shield movements.

As for gameplay, I think shield defense is extremely useful for tanking, once you do get aggro. Also, keep in mind that +% damage modifiers are additive, which means that using cleave (that grants +100% damage) still adds its full bonus to damage. So while using shield defense and cleave, you still do roughly 175% damage. Using assault in that can is often enough to take and keep aggro.

This is especially true if you prime it with a taunt.

Itkovian

[GodBID]

When i started my warrior he was suppose to be a 1h/shield tanker, but after going through the talents i just couldent bring myself to do it, i mean most of the talents make you a worse tank if anything shield defense should give you a HUGGGGE boost in threat but naaaah they slap a 25% reduced dmg penalty on it, so i went with 2h offensive tank instead seems to work out just as good if not better :/

[Itkovian]

That's why you get other things to get your damage... sword and board also makes you immune to flank and crits. That means I don't need to even turn on shield defense until something actually threatening shows up. And even then I invested in vanguard enough to give me some beefy DPS options.

As it is, as a DPS sword and board tank I managed to tank the deep roads rather well.

Itkovian

[TalliNV]

Agree, Bioware did a nice job of opening up an option for an offensive S&S warrior...just don't turn on Shield Defence unless your back is against the wall.

[Rockpopple]

That's one reason why I'm starting my S&B warrior. The 1st time I specced to Shield Defense and it just wasn't fun for me.

But I understand why Bioware did it. It is called Shield Defense after-all.

[JRHigley]

Restore normal animation when Shield Defense is activated.  (No more poke, poe, poke.)

http://social.biowar...m/project/4813/