Shields+TWF?? Is this True/WAI

[Propane]

In regards to shields - the new crafting stuff helps here alot - you can start with a Mithral shield - strip it down and add Holy and threat incite 20% to it. Mithral breaks silver DR - so you can have a DR breaker sheild with 20% threat boost-

[Tsuarok]

Did some testing for us.

Rolled up a dwarf fighter with vet status, giving her TWF, ISB, and THF.

I used 2 methods, both against a training dummy:

In the first method, I clicked each attack individually so I could stop and mark down when I got a SB.

This resulted, over 200 hits, in 47% of hits causing a SB, rather higher than the expected 40% if the TWF feat was applying.

Then, to be sure, I clicked auto-attack, waited a few minutes, and analyzed the combat log. This resulted, again over 200 hits, in exactly 20%, which is expected for the ISB proc rate without the TWF feat applying.

What seemed to be happening was that the first hit in the attack chain had ~50% chance of procing the SB, while the other attacks in the chain had either no chance or a much, much lower chance of proccing a SB.

Conclusion:

The TWF feat does not seem to effect shield bashes. When using a shield you can achieve much higher proc rates from the ISB feat by twitching.

To ensure this result, another test should be done using a character without the TWF feat, to make sure that the increase seen while twitching is in fact unaffected by the TWF feat. But I need sleep, so someone else can pursue this if they want.