why cant we dualwield shields?
didnt blizzard orginally in alpha or beta intend too let rogues and hunters use a weaker version of a shield. (forgot the english name of such shields)
which is amongst the reasons why you find several really tiny shields in game.
In Vanilla alpha, "Bucklers" and "Shields" were seperate weapons mechanically. Paladins and Warriors could use shields. Bucklers were used by Shaman, Rogues and Hunters. The return of the distinction might some interesting gameplay make.
Edit: Totally didn't see the post of the guy above me, but I feel that this was accidentally a proper response.
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Exactly. Though at this point it would be hard to implement it for hunters, now when melee slots are shared with ranged weapons. It would be cool for rogues or enhancement, but I prefer rogues in this case. Enhancement shamans already are fairly unique as it is, whereas the rogue specs don't differ as much from each other as for example enhancement or elemental does.
It wouldn't work as a rogue spec, they'd have to add agility shields or something. Blizzard is not interested in making a sort of items that only a single class and spec can use.
Thank you. I saw it. But don't you think this would just lead to people complaining about their numbers more than they already do? Coming out of Classic, Blizzard said they didn't want to make classes able to tank, but not as good as the other tanks. Like Druids were, for example. So I don't see them going back on that, especially when a half tank is never needed or desired.
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I've always thought that Paladins should all use shields, even ret. It just fits my idea of a paladin for some reason.
This is about shield DPS. Nowhere did anyone say anything about tanking.
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Thing about paladins is that they've always used 2-handed weapons. The paladins in WC3 used large 2-hand maces.
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And what about the complaints that will happen from imbalance of numbers? People already complain about that a lot. Do you choose less dps for the vanity of having the shield or are you taking the shield as a better option compared to a mace or a dagger? If it's only about damage and not taking additional damage, then you would have to do the same dps with a shield and a dagger compared to a dagger and a dagger. And if you're doing that, what's even the point?
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Dual Wield away
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I think there's room for a lot of interesting mechanics if shields are used as DPS tools. If it was my way, then yes, it would be superior to an OH weapon. There's already plenty of DW specs (enhancement, assassination, subtlety, fury, frost, isn't Windwalker DW as well?), so seeing something special for a change would be fun imo.
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I'd love it if there was a literal "Sword and board" DPS class. Or even the ability to transmog off-hand items (not weapons) into shields.
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