customizing shields>

have you ever noticed that when you customize a shield that it does not gain a inherent bonus. all martial weapons gain a 20% dmg bonus, a shield imo should also gain a bonus to armor. and like wise if you customize a offhand it should give you more energy, dont know about focus's if they do or not but i do know the shield dont have a inherent bonus when customized.

they should fix this or there is no real reason to customize a shield. and when i put my 200+k tormented shield in my HoM i think i should gain more then just getting a statue of it in my HoM. /signed or /notsigned>>> what you think?

/notsigned

It's your choice you wanted to put your shield in the HoM, also I don't like the idea of increase in armor since armor>health in pvp.

No thank you.

Def not, I don't want to be forced to have to dedicate a shield to a character. It's one of the few pieces of equiptment you don't have to customize.

Let's not give casters more armor.

i'm not saying you have to ded it. i'm saying for those that do dedicate it should get a bonus like with the swords/axes/hammers>

Protip: If you get a bonus for it that is signifigant (such as armor, which you are suggesting), you are handicapping yourself if you don't dedicate it and thus will have to dedicate it.

do you dedicate every sword/axe/hammer you get? no and why not? you are handicapping yourself by +20% dmg if you dont ded it. its the same thing as with the martial weapons... not all will want their weapon of choice to be dedicated so they can switch them between characters.

Uh, every Sword/Axe/Hammer/Dagger/Spear/Scythe/Bow that I get that my character will use is customized for my character, and I make sure I always use customized weapons. Not using them is stupid because THE BONUS IS TOO GREAT TO PASS UP.

Just make it so when you dedicate something it is account wide, not single.

I dedicated two shields to my HoM thinking they would both display, now my monk has a useless tactics shields overtop my shield set.

then why would you not want a bonus to be put on a shield if you are so going to use it? does it make since to you that all your other weapons customized have a bonus and yet if you ded a shield or focus you get "this weapon is customized for so and so" and that is it? i just thought that it would make more since that you actually get something for dedicating ALL your weps to you.

I don't like being forced to customize my gear for my character in order to recieve the bonuses. Shields don't force me to do it, my uncustomized shield is just as great as your customized shield. That is not the same for weapons, my customized sword is better than your uncustomized sword. I like to have the choice, you are suggesting to take this away from me.

i'm not suggesting to take anything away from anyone, all i'm saying is if they do it for some weps they should do it for all weps. if you have a shield made for a general public it will give you a certian amount of armor, but if it were customized it would give you a optimal amount of armor for arm length to weight it just makes more since to give bonus's on customized weps no matter what they are.

This is the main reason why,

Also you dedicated your shield to your HoM by choice. Nobody told you to do out and dedicate your torment shield, you could have just used a destroyer shield

Please don't bring real life into a fantasy game, If you really belive than then Decapitate should be 1 hit kill.

I agree with Chocobo1.
I would prefer not to have the ability to customise weapons/armour/shields so they are easily interchangeable between characters. The thing is you are gimping yourself by not customising, especially in PvP. Sure, I would like an armour bonus, but then everyone else would have it as well, giving me no advantage, what's the point?

/notsigned.

The bonus you get for customising your shield is that it goes into the HoM. It's your choice. No need to mess with balance or force other people to customise.

Agreed, not signed...anyways kinda too late in the game now, anet has better things to do.

Yeah, like make programs to accept wiki builds and have anet sort thru thousands of builds to get to them. Anet devotes their time wisely.

Doesn't mean there doing them.

ANet would add a de-customization NPC into the game before they added this. And we know they will never add a de-customization NPC into the game.