Your Feelings on Barbarians using shields. - Page 2

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Thats one reason to bring that system back, i cant believe they removed it in the first place.




O I fully agree. But if they don't who is going to want to play a sword & board Barb for very long?|||Quote:








O I fully agree. But if they don't who is going to want to play a sword & board Barb for very long?




Honestly I dont think anyone will, it will only be a stat thing for some fights pretty much. Plus the added fun of charging into a grp and stunning unspecting bad guys, lol|||I have felled many a tree with a wee axe.

Flex?

Do you mean Flux?|||Shields should be included in the arsenal of weapons available to our heroes. It's a large mace with less range.|||Personally think Barbs should have a couple of shield skills ala the Defense mastery in Titan Quest.

Either passives that work the same as the current dual wielding (% chance to attack with both weapon and shield), active skills such as a Shield Bash or modifying current skills to employ a shield, such as having Charge utilize Shield damage.|||Barbarians don't need shields. If anything is hitting the barbarian that is a sign that he isn't dealing enough damage. That means it's time to pick up a bigger piece of steel and start annihilating things with it not that it is time to start cowering behind a board. A barbarian should thunder into a room and make undead skeletons crumple into piles of bones with the force of his footsteps. He should be playing baseball with zombie corpses and making fallen kebabs on his spear. The barbarian is not worried about getting scraped up, he needs MOAR POWER!|||Quote:








Barbarians don't need shields. If anything is hitting the barbarian that is a sign that he isn't dealing enough damage. That means it's time to pick up a bigger piece of steel and start annihilating things with it not that it is time to start cowering behind a board. A barbarian should thunder into a room and make undead skeletons crumple into piles of bones with the force of his footsteps. He should be playing baseball with zombie corpses and making fallen kebabs on his spear. The barbarian is not worried about getting scraped up, he needs MOAR POWER!




Totally disagree in high lvl boss and champion fights what if the mob can take much out of u fast, its a statistic play to use a shield. It has nothing to do with weapon DPS or cowering behind a shield.|||Which is why Barbarian shield skills need to be offensive skills, rather than cast a skill to give +x% chance to block for y seconds with z% extra defense.

Instead have the Barbarian smash his shield into something's face and then cleave an axe through the torso.|||Offensive shield skills would be pretty sweet, the Defender tree was real fun in Titan Quest. If Blizzard isn't adding those to the Barb, they could at the very least modify certain skills (and their animations) like Cleave and Charge to be somewhat based on shields.|||Quote:








Offensive shield skills would be pretty sweet, the Defender tree was real fun in Titan Quest. If Blizzard isn't adding those to the Barb, they could at the very least modify certain skills (and their animations) like Cleave and Charge to be somewhat based on shields.




Yes it was, that might be due to the fact that it was one of the most powerful supporting Masteries in the game though

But since the 5th class most likely won't be using shields (as a bow etc class is missing), and Wizards and Witch Doctors have class specific off hand weapons, and Monks utilize dual fist weapons or a two handed staff, it would be prudent to provide an incentive for at least ONE class to use shields otherwise they will simply become an obsolete item category.