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Shields are by no means over powered... Although I shouldn't bother responding because every thing is imbalanced to Proto.

Edit: hope this doesn't cause a shit storm.
Prototype guys: The PvP could use MINOR tweaks, but everything you guys have been crying about in this thread is pretty well balanced. Hammer pick is balanced if you consider the fact that it is slower than a bardiche and has less average damage. The hammer is like a bardiche only slower, and more consistent damage.
I understand that you want every single person to duel with a bardiche and hally, but it ain't gonna happen!
You are asking to make a useful item useless. Just because shields were useless on the shard you played does not mean they should be useless here.

The real problem in supplied tournies is that you get +25 tactics weapons, and in general, weapon damage rates are based on 125 tactics not 100. There's your problem.

Shields are very overpowered, you don't see the problem in that because you and vys both duel the same way use the same weapons and discuss about it over msn regularly at least so I've been told by vys himself. You shouldn't need to slap on a shield the parry chances + armor reduction of the shield with the set of armor are too ridiculous you either hit for 5-10 dmg or parry all the time. After a person misses or hits for very little you can just slap on another weapon like the war hammer which indeed is faster than some weapons. I believe mito was tweaking it on IN-X near the end if I'm not mistaken so that it would be used more so obviously it didn't even have a testing stage therefore yes you do not know what your talking about. I don't care what weapon people use I myself use a ba bard and hally in duels so don't try and think i'm forcing the use of bardiches in PvP. I don't even care if you use a shield just make them balanced as they are definetly not right now.

The problem does not certainly lie with autosupply it's just shields in general and well if you can't see this you really have no idea what balance is.

EDIT: I also love the part where you say I try to enforce everyone to duel with a hally/bard yet your statement and the way this PvP hit/miss/parry system is built it pretty much states you want to enforce shields to be used by everyone in duels? Pretty hypocritical if you ask me.