Shield Classes

Lourens

Lourens

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

Only the physical classes (warrior,paragon,dervish,ranger,assassin) should be able to wield a shield.
First of all shields look pretty silly on casters in my opinion.
And casters are ment to be fragile and weak so they shouldn't be able to wield a shield cause they don't got the physical strength required to wield one.

RedDog91

RedDog91

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2007

Farming for Nick gifts

R/

good idea
and dervish healers shouldn't be allowed cuz the staff makes them look girly

/sarcasm

Coolpb

Coolpb

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2008

Bergen Hot Springs

We Farm Your [ECTOs]

A/

Sounds to me like you've gone up against casters with shields and lost. Stop qq-ing.

Eragon Zarroc

Eragon Zarroc

Atra estern?? ono thelduin

Join Date: Jan 2008

Madness Incarnate

[Duo]

W/P

/notsigned.

if casters want to give up their offhand energy for a little armor, they can. they pay a price for the extra armor.

Rugar

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2009

/notsigned

Casters are not as physical as physical classes, but they are not necessarily weak. Never heard of Battlemages?

lozenge

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2009

Green Knights

D/W

not like they get the full armor...

/notsigned

Lourens

Lourens

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rugar View Post
/notsigned

Casters are not as physical as physical classes, but they are not necessarily weak. Never heard of Battlemages?
Most of the times they come in heavy armor , battlemage in guildwars would be something like a w/e

Johny bravo

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

[SoS]

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lourens View Post
Most of the times they come in heavy armor , battlemage in guildwars would be something like a w/e
Like the W/E on my RA team with, and I am not kidding,

Meteor Shower, Maelstrom, Deep Freeze, GoLE

Interrupt, interrupt, rage about the other team cheating, leave.

Why wouldn't a caster be able to carry a shield it has a handle on it.

Evil Eye

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2007

P/Me

dont want multiclassing go to wow

End

End

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

Rubbing Potassium on water fountains.

LF guild that teaches MTSC (did it long ago before gw2 came out and I quit...but I barely remember)

N/A

ZOMG 8 extra armor on a monk who is giving up the 20/20 on his offhand...
or ZOMG a monk who gave up 28+ attribute points and the 20/20 on his offhand for 15/16 extra armor...o noes...
QQ moar its fun

/notsigned

Edit for those who didn't get it:
Its not as though there aren't disadvantages that casters have to face in order to use a shield...

Dorny

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2008

Switzerland

Dragons of Shadows [DOS]

N/E

Sins shouldnt have scythes, because they are big, and would slow them down. They shouldnt have bows because those are too obvious/bulky for a ninja.


Need I say more?

GwOxygen

GwOxygen

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2009

N/

/notsigned

Stop QQ'ing -_-

Rhadamanthys

Rhadamanthys

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dorny View Post
Sins shouldnt have scythes, because they are big, and would slow them down. They shouldnt have bows because those are too obvious/bulky for a ninja.


Need I say more?
Nope. I think you pretty much covered it.

Zanagi Kazuhiko

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2009

Kamadan Dis 1

LF trolling/flaming guild, 8=D

W/

I would disagree...shields are helpful with their +8al armor...and multiple +10^against

/notsigned

Axel Zinfandel

Axel Zinfandel

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2007

Northeastern Ohio

LaZy

P/W

http://media.photobucket.com/image/m...ticlassing.jpg (link since it won't let me post it :x)

This game was build on the variety in having secondary professions and the like. Don't like it, play around it. Counter it.

Twin Blade Warriror

Twin Blade Warriror

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

I was in a guild by myself with 2 of my other accounts..but im banned now

W/

/notsigned

i really do not understand why this thread was made..cant kill a monk in pvp that has a shield? lol... o.O

Kattar

Kattar

EXCESSIVE FLUTTERCUSSING

Join Date: Mar 2007

SMS (lolgw2placeholder)

Me/

Quote:
battlemage in guildwars
Pretty sure there's no such thing in GW. There is such a thing as a Warrior Monk, but it's certainly not a battlemage. Maybe you're thinking of this or this.

But really, you can't think of any other reason to disallow other classes to carry shields other than you don't think it looks good? Sorry, but you've got to have a better reason to change something other than, "I don't like it," or, "it doesn't fit with the lore," for the suggestion to be valid in this forum.

Closed.