Improved Shield Mastery-Enhancements

[Yokido]

We all know that one feat for 5% PD absorption is quite useless, many people have suggested changing it or removing it altogether, while I have come up with a different, more convenient idea for Turbine and their balance skepticism.

2 AP-Requires Improved Shield Mastery; You have grown to using shields, and gain 5% additional physical damage reduction, added to your Improved Shield Mastery feat. Must be proficient with your shield to take effect.

4 AP-Requires Improved Shield Mastery; You have grown to using shields, and gain 5% more physical damage reduction, with a total of 10% added to your Improved Shield Mastery feat.

6 AP-Requires Improved Shield Mastery; You have grown to using shields, and gain 5% more physical damage reduction, with a total of 15% added to your Improved Shield Mastery feat.

Keep in mind that 5% is only 1/20 reduction, so for it to be more effective than 1 dr you have to receive over 39 damage.. Also keep noted that you are required to get two feats for a total of 40% damage reduction with a tower shield as your maximum.

2 AP-Requires Improved Shield Mastery, Improved Shield Bash; You valiantly wield a shield with grand expertise alongside your main-hand weapon, and gain a 5% additional chance to shield bash when attacking while not being mobile for a total of 25%. Must be proficient with your shield to take effect.

4 AP-Requires Improved Shield Mastery, Improved Shield Bash; You valiantly wield a shield with masterful expertise alongside your main-hand weapon, and gain a 5% additional chance to shield bash when attacking while not being mobile for a total of 30%.

6 AP-Requires Improved Shield Mastery, Improved Shield Bash; You valiantly wield a shield with perfect expertise alongside your main-hand weapon, and gain a 5% additional chance to shield bash when attacking while not being mobile for a total of 35%.

Tell me what you think, sign or no sign?

[Phemt81]

/signed

(will someone get offended by this post?)

[Xenostrata]

We all know that one feat for 5% PD absorption is quite useless, many people have suggested changing it or removing it altogether, while I have come up with a different, more convenient idea for Turbine and their balance skepticism.

2 AP-Requires Improved Shield Mastery; You have grown to using shields, and gain 5% additional physical damage reduction, added to your Improved Shield Mastery feat. Must be proficient with your shield to take effect.

4 AP-Requires Improved Shield Mastery; You have grown to using shields, and gain 5% more physical damage reduction, with a total of 10% added to your Improved Shield Mastery feat.

6 AP-Requires Improved Shield Mastery; You have grown to using shields, and gain 5% more physical damage reduction, with a total of 15% added to your Improved Shield Mastery feat.

Keep in mind that 5% is only 1/20 reduction, so for it to be more effective than 1 dr you have to receive over 39 damage.. Also keep noted that you are required to get two feats for a total of 40% damage reduction with a tower shield as your maximum.

2 AP-Requires Improved Shield Mastery, Improved Shield Bash; You valiantly wield a shield with grand expertise alongside your main-hand weapon, and gain a 5% additional chance to shield bash when attacking while not being mobile for a total of 25%. Must be proficient with your shield to take effect.

4 AP-Requires Improved Shield Mastery, Improved Shield Bash; You valiantly wield a shield with masterful expertise alongside your main-hand weapon, and gain a 5% additional chance to shield bash when attacking while not being mobile for a total of 30%.

6 AP-Requires Improved Shield Mastery, Improved Shield Bash; You valiantly wield a shield with perfect expertise alongside your main-hand weapon, and gain a 5% additional chance to shield bash when attacking while not being mobile for a total of 35%.

Tell me what you think, sign or no sign?

/signed... with one caveat.

Improved Shield Bash appears to be Total ****.

So I'm not sure how much the enhancements would help with that

[Ralmeth]

I agree that 5% reduction from improved shield mastery seems hardly worth spending the feat and the extra DPS from improved shield bash is only marginally helpful (I'm currently using it, but am on the fence over whether to keep it). However this suggestion heavily favors Fighter Defenders over Paladins because Paladin DoS builds don't have the spare feat available for improved shield mastery nor the APs available for the enhancement line. Also 5% damage reduction per tier seems fairly overpowered, so.

/Not signed

I'm all for adding an enhancement line that improves S&B use, however this would need to come with a reworking of AP requirements for Pally DoS builds so that there would be enough APs available to purchase the new line.

[Yokido]

@Ralmeth

Fighter's get more feats than the other melee classes, that's it, so you could say that about any new feat that they add, that paladins or barbarians or rangers need more feat love.. Fact is that they get way more interesting enhancements than the fighter class, and at the end of the day it's easy as pie to slip some fighter levels in for feats.

[Aesop]

I suggest adding this into the Defender lines instead.

Each Tier of Defender could add 5%


actually I'd per fer a complete overhaul


Shield Use Feat

10% Shield Mitigation (5% for Bucklers)
10% Shield Bash

Tower Shield Feat
15% Shield Mitigation
10% Shield Bash

Improved Shield Bash
+20% Shield Bash

Shield Mastery
+2 Blocking DR
+10% Shield Mitigation
+5% Shield Bash

Improved Shield Mastery
+2 Blocking DR
+10% Shield Mitigation
+5% Shield Bash

Defender 1 (these are in addition to current benefits)
+5% Shield Mitigation


Defender 2

+5% Shield Bash

Defender 3
+5% Shield Mitigation
+5% Shield Bash

Total benefit

Buckler
35% Shield Mitigation
50% Shield Bash

Light and Heavy Shields
40% Mitigation
50% Bash

Tower
45% Mitigation
50% Bash


Aesop