I agree, shield runes should now just be 40/40 because of this change.

Edit: Though no warriors will still use greatshields anyway.

I think shield runes should be buffed to 80/80.

Just because.

I remember being able to burn letters with tinderboxes in the past. Is that still around, and if so, what is the syntax?

CHAR LETTER

Most simple and fair solution: Make shield rune work as a greatshield would for your class.

OTHER WEAPON RUNES
The following runes may ONLY be attached to the following items: mage staves,
druid cudgels, wiccan athames, guardian symbols, and bard instruments.

Great Rune of Shielding
o Transforms the object into a shield item (stats 52/52), so you may use
it for any shield-related skill.
o 350 credits.

Why would they make something that is only attached to non-warrior weapons work like a greatshield for your class. >.>

Really I don't think it should be changed, unless they plan on lowering the credit price (And giving a partial refund), since they would change the value of the artifact.

Ah, but the shielding rune has the nice side effect of the parry-stun, which is not to be overlooked so easily. I'd say lowering the stats on it would be fair... unless you let warriors attach shield runes to their weapons, so we can all enjoy some offensive defense.

Ehhh. I wouldn't say allowing warriors to have shieldrunes... but then I don't know how robes/splendours compare to plate/masterarmour. I've heard some complain that splendours can be better. I'd be for lowering the stats of a shieldrune.

Splendors/greatrobes can be proofed with DMP, and can come closer than you'd expect to plate. Then you factor in the damage reduction given from the shield and suddenly POOF every warrior reading this now feels inadequate and/or angry.

What's the purpose of Brewmeister's PaleMalt? The AB says absolutely nothing about the game mechanics of this beer. Drank a whole vial with no impact to my sobriety (though, I am wearing a Charm). Unlike Amber or Dark, it seems to confer no defense line. Is it just... nothing? More or less a drink of negligible importance other than it's the first thing a Brewmeister can actually brew?

Always assumed it was to get you drunk easily, once you've taken a sip of Amber and Dark. But if its not getting you drunk ,then I'm not sure.

If it's not affecting sobriety, then it is probably bugged. Which would be no great surprise, since there's been little reason to use it.

No. Shield-riposte is really unnecessary in general and should probably go, and giving it to the class with best parry would be pretty terrible.

Also, with wonderful things like trueshield and splendours, I don't see why making shieldrunes go down to max greatshield stats would be such a terrible thing.

Already been bugged and bug fixed.



Still not sure I understand Pale Malt.

Drink it to get drunk! Simple, yet effective

Yeah, that makes sense.

What are the max stats for masterarmour?

It's not a terrible thing, but it's something that would devalue the artifact, and the price could go down. If it nerfed the artifact and not the price I don't think it would be worth the 350 credits anymore. Really if they nerfed the artifact it may help balancing issues now that I think about it, but really the price of it should go down if it does and hopefully at least a partial refund of the credits to alleviate the people who have used it all this time.

Warriors can still get proofings.

Heh, people are actually serious about bringing down shield runes, eh? I, obviously, disagree, having just remembered and re-experienced the reasons that caused myself to decide to shell out the money for both a shield rune and splendour robes. Simply put, to compete with an artied offense, I needed an artie defense. Thinking this defense needs to be lowered because of some ridiculous notion that changed great shields (which are apparently meant for warriors only) should be applied to shield runes (which, in no way, are shown to be warrior only) is silly.

As Daem pointed out and I've made the basis for my reference - shield runes are only stuck to non-warrior equipment, so the change doesn't apply. For warriors who want shield runes? Go for it. Get an instrument (since I think that's the only thing you can easily get access to), slap a rune on it, and wield it. Enjoy.

Edit: Oh, and to Ilyssa, as the poster above noted, warriors are still able to get proofings as well, so the argument that goes 'but casters get x-proofs on top of y-defense' falls through. And the ShieldRiposte comments are kinda odd, considering it sounds like people are forgetting that the one-handed Knighthood specs have skills akin to it which exist as well, except instead of stunning, they actually attack back. Unless I'm completely missing the point or people are just trying to throw up flimsy justifications for trying to make casters softer.

You only get 2 proofings as compared to the 4 anyone else can get.