Are you mistaken? The weapon quite literally is unchanged EXCEPT for on classes that aren’t even suppose to be using them at their level, as seen by the fact they cant even use the first skill on the weapon.
I’m not even going to bother adressing any of the other ramble points you said aswell, since there’s no point. Once savants actually unlock the first skill on the shield, they’ll be able to use it, and that goes for all other classes too.
I don’t agree with a full merger because I believe the balancecord has developed into its own subcommunity and destroying a subcommunity would be unhealthy.
I do agree with a partial merge though, having a balance channel put into the main server and having the announcements about changes being funneled into the main Discord as well. The balancecord would still exist for the people who desire to be there.
Ideally you would just have these people coexist to begin with but I don’t want Vetex’s Games Discord to become the next Austria-Hungary.
Actually, better question: Is there even a decent way to make shields worth a damn without making them overpowered?
Maybe shield skills could still be used at zero durability, just with no block bonus while the weapon is broken and maaaybe a damage decrease? A flat durability buff to all shields would be nice, but I’d be a bit worried about how much power it’d give them.
Ok. You started your statement off by saying the shield change is idiotic.
But all your followup changes had nothing to do with the targetted change so are you misunderstanding it?
The change is clearly meant to be targetting people who abuse shields with a low weapon requirement, not nerfing the shield itself.
If you nerf the shield itself it’s just gonna mean that builds like Warrior will use it even less and builds like savant will continue to abuse it at a lesser efficiency.
Let alone considering future high-level shields.
At the most you could nerf the shields raw stats and buff its abilities to make it more useful on higher-weapons builds but less abusable on savant. No idea if this is the better route or not though since if we were doing things from the ground-up I would’ve had it like this to begin with. I think we’ve just gotten too attached to being able to abuse shields at a lower we requirement.