Thursday, April 12, 2012

Your Feelings on Barbarians using shields. - Page 4

[:1]And with no weapon-switch function have fun manually swapping out your off-hand weapon for a shield when you run into a tough mob (champion/unique/whatever) that hits harder than you expected it too.

Extra fun when frantically switching from a 2-hander to 1H+shield on the fly. Hybrid build what?

Thanks Jay, thanks a lot.|||Shields were broken in D2, so yeah, they're out of D3. Sorry|||I havent read all the post but wanted to vent my feelings on this;

In Diablo 2 I thought barbarian had the potential to be the heaviest tank in the game, a pure iron barb was rarely topped by a paladin in the tanking department, although paladins could get bigger armor pools it only helps to get 5%, and the 75% block, after that the hp pools and resists is what matters, and with natural resistance barbs topped in both of them.

So in short yes I really want them to have shields, and im gonna play my first barb with one, I never understood the whole "we need a sword/board class" cause we have that barb who was amazing with it.

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Shields were broken in D2, so yeah, they're out of D3. Sorry




Your post makes as much sense as a Wizard dual wielding shields.

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They should have the ability to use them but without specific shield skills....I'm still hoping they're adding a shield based class in an expansion |||I belive that if you wanted you go for any kind of build. Using a shiled would make you lack offence but might be good against heavy hitters like bosses etc.|||Quote:








I belive that if you wanted you go for any kind of build. Using a shiled would make you lack offence but might be good against heavy hitters like bosses etc.




The problem is, you can't switch weapons with a single button. You have to open your inventory window and switch out weapons. The time it takes you to change weapons could kill you. So yeah you can use a shield but if the Barb doesn't have skills that use the shield or give bonuses for using shields there really isn't any point to using one.|||agreed most of the barb skills we seen so far has been more of the "rush in kill everything in your path" mindset then the "kill everything that pose a threat while taking minimum damage" mindset. hopefully we will see such skills to|||Quote:








agreed most of the barb skills we seen so far has been more of the "rush in kill everything in your path" mindset then the "kill everything that pose a threat while taking minimum damage" mindset. hopefully we will see such skills to




I just fill their will be a tree/skills devoted to a shield barb.|||We dont need shield based skills for the barb, as long as he has the ability to use a shield im happy. ( and it's worth the dmg loss )

But i myself would want a shield based char like paladin in d2 it provides an awsome coop experiance instead of everyone rushing for kills you have the ability to shape your char for diffrent purposes then just straight out killing.(witch to me makes it a bit more diverse)|||Barbs with shields never seemed right to me.

All my D2 barbs dual wield, they just seem cooler that way.

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