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The reason anyone uses a shield in the first place is because they have a noticable effect on how much damage you take. If it wasn't noticable then nobody would waste their time with a shield.
You can take full damage hits through a shield frequently... You can also parry hits. The whole point of a shield is to use it only when it benefits you, because it's pretty hard to win a duel with just a shield and 1 hander. You need the high damage output of a 2 hander to be able to do enough damage to kill someone. The whole point is to switch between weapons for the one best suited at the time. You know that, you use multiple weapons. Time and time again though you, and a lot of others have simply refused to use a shield. That's your own fault.

I'm not saying you force everyone to duel with a hally or bard... I'm saying that if shields and mace weapons were nerfed like you want, there would be no reason to use them and THEREFORE everyone would be using the same set of weapons you do, because they are the best choices. Not that many people even use maces, I'd say 3 out of 4 (I'm being very being conservative) uses bardiche/halberd. You can't really argue with the truth...




As for the hammer, it's been in a "testing stage" just like every other weapon here since the server launched (last March right? When is the anniversary? )
I've used it a lot... I've used every weapon a lot, and there are a few that are just plain better than the rest. Bardiche, halberd, and battle axe are definitely in this category.

I'm not going to force my self to use a shield IT SHOULDN'T BE NEEDED. the percent chance to hit for a low amount of damage parry agaisnt a shield and then miss all on your own makes shields THAT overpowered. You wouldn't know that because the only enemy worth dueling that actually uses a shield in the shard is vys. His connection is better than anyone I know besides Ginz, but Ginz has been out of the game for a while. Even you habibi lately all you've done is play defensive until the referee comes out then you just start dumping before he even chooses a target and then bam he hits me. This isn't PvP it's based on pure luck and the use of shields. It's quite ridiculous how the votes are voted entirely in a no direction, I hope that this is still going to be looked into by Loki and other staff because it's just absurd at this point.

Before anyone else says something about paralzying the referee or killing it you can't i've tried, it then targets you faster and killed you faster.

As for the war hammer and the state of the shard, you haven't had this playerbase for long back last year in march you had what 13 players? so what are you trying to say it had it's testing stage with who and what people at that time?

Yeah, me and Habibi meet at msn on regular basis and discuss the way we duel and the same weapons we use.

Dude... I couldn't possible say anything like that... ;p

Also... it will always be (and would be on INX, just noone did that) much more effective to have a shield equipped while bandaging\healing. And it could've saved you there as well. I remember shields used to be like a savior in reps if you wasted your mana, sometimes even in regs. The point is , since we had no disarm noone really thought of making the macro... But that would be advantage there as well.

And I've got no "style" of dueling dude. I just fight the way that I find the most effective. Thats about it.

Well you did say that too me on msn, it was the day I dueled habibi for 50k and won. You said "this PvP is different you need to learn to adapt I speak and discuss the pvp often with habibi about tweaks of weapons/spells/scrolls" I mean it's even in game logs where we discussed about in the Britan tour area when a rep was going on so I duno why you deny it now..

As well if you think shields work the same way here as they did on IN-X your hilarious