Hey All,
I've had a couple of in-game chats with people recently where suggestions were made as to how Creation Shields could be changed so that they are no longer weapons but instead would be armour pieces, utilities and the like. The idea is to enable us to use our defensive creation shields whilst using a ranged weapon which we all know is the preferable secondary weapon style for the MP on the whole. It would help us greatly in PvP (whether group or duel) if the defensive elements in the shield could still be accessed.
There seem to be two main ideas:
- 1) The Creation shields are changed to equip in the Arm slot where armour would usually go. As such it would replace an arm piece. It would probably be a good idea to increase the values on the ACs a little bit so that the arm-piece we'd sacrifice would be included. Perhaps taking an Aug Nano arm figures and adding them in.
2) The Creation shields are changed to equip in the Utils slot. In order to have an effect that would have to be 'used' in the same way that a parry shield needs to be used - by right clicking it or using it from the shortcut bar. This would probably mean that the shield would not be visible ().
In this position we could either just need to use it once for it to have its effect and make the duration of the effect as long as the duration of the shield - or we could increase the defensive values considerably and have the shield effect give a much shorter duration (5 minutes maybe) but then include a skills lock so that we could only use it from time to time... perhaps a 15 minute skill lock for a 5 minute effect. It might be an idea to add a new line of Creation: Parry Shields that worked like this.
I look forward to an interesting discussion on which way would be best and what values we might want to give the shields.
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