Post:Mandatory shield for PVP - 01/02/2014 - 22:22

Re: Mandatory shield for PVP · on 01/02/2014 10:22 PM CST	388
>>It'd already generally be suicide to do that now since evasion helps so much. Parry can't block arrows anyway so it'd be just like using 100 evasion / 80 shield stance right now that people do when they wanna block something. Evasion helps less than shield in many cases today where the two skills are comparable and a medium or large shield is being used. Armor hindrance and MO penalty hits evasion harder, and evasion is also a bit more penalized from certain things. Evasion is just more convenient, tends to be trained better among the player population, doesn't require a shield and folks are convinced that it is still the best defense. >>Why would it prevent backtraining? You'd basically just be at 100% shield stance at all times and it would train just like it would right now if you were backtraining. I don't want to prevent backtraining. I am explaining why having things magically choose for you in the background can cause other issues (or be quite difficult to code). >>Parry Really liking the idea of making Parry an exceptional defense when overwhelmed. It does give it a better niche.
This message was originally posted in Dragon Realms 3.1 Test \ Combat, by DR-KODIUS on the play.net forums.