Right now, my alternate character is a guildless influencer. I was thinking of having her transend Combat and wield two shields.

If I did, would both shields parry/stun/riposte independent of each other?
Should I wait for envoy changes before doing this? People sound like they're expecting major changes with warriors.
Would the cost of the shields be worth the effects of these skills?

You can't use two shields.

Even if you could, there wouldn't be any real point to shieldstunning with both, because... you're not actually hurting them.

Stunning doesn't stack? ^^;;
Where does it say you can only wield one shield? My connection's being slow and I can't search the help files.

I think HELP SHIELD. It says something about how it's physically possible to wield two shields, but that it's cumbersome and you lose all benefit from both of them. So you don't even get the passive armour boost from the first one.

Ah. Thanks.

*goes off to scrounge up some more crazy ideas*

No.

Also, if you are a warrior, you are much better off with two one handed weapons then one one handed weapon and a shield.

A crazy defensive influencer with trans combat, influence, bookbinding, a shield, and a magical tome. Hrrm.

O_O! That would be fun~


Still guildless at the moment. Are there any skills in Athletics that help with shields?

No, as warriors aren't supposed to be using shields in Lusternia, non-warriors are.

Makes sense.

Thanks everyone~

Heck, with shield runes, we don't even need to wield shields anymore.

I need to get cheaper greatshield designs made now...

Since you seem fixated on a guildless influencer warrior, may I at least suggest a suitable race for a warrior influencer, Tae'dae.

15cha and lvl 3 sip bonus, that's about the best base combination of those variables you can get.

Thanks Wesmin!

Then how come we get greatshields?!?

As soon as I get shieldstun, I am having a greatshield made. It will be impressive. Really, it will.

oooh thats what I need to do...

Crush legs,
shield stun, hit legs,
smite down! thanks!

or does that not work?

Shields really need to be poisonable... is that a word?

Honestly, I think you can just shield stun, smite down. Stun negates parry anyways, so they don't have to be prone. At least, it's worked for me.

However, I find that if their head is at critical, it's likely either a) they weren't parrying/stancing correctly and you probably can just double smite down till brain bash or b ) you already have one of their legs with enough wounds to get knockdown almost every strike leg. Can stun with that as well, so in my opinion, it's more effective than switching out for the shield stun. (wounds, poisons, prone, stun from the knockdown vs. only stun from shield)

Oh, and you need balance on both arms to shield stun. it's fun to shield stun sometimes, but as far as effectiveness goes, stick with two weapons.

Hmmm, maybe I should try crushed leg, then shield stun + burst organs. Might actually get a kill that way.

I could see a blademaster using shieldstun to maybe stack stun with legtendon or impale, but a bonecrusher gets so much stun anyway that it's not really worth it.

Isn't shieldstun just a half second stun anyway? Really not long enough =\\