i’m thoroughly confused.
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When a mommy shield and a daddy shield love each other VERY much…
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are there any builds that use a shield for anything?
are shields an easter egg for blizzard including a paladin into the game? i dont see any builds to use a shield.
Necromancers can use shields. I think most use two hand swords or scythes though.
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Yes, shields do not give you flat DPS like an offhand weapon. They give defense instead. Hope this helps.
I used a shield for my minion build up until WT3 with the thought process it would help make the minions tankier (even though they haven’t completely confirmed which stats minions get) but then shortly after entering WT3 I got a two hand scythe unique that was too big an upgrade to pass up so I switched.
In general two hand weapons seem much better because they give you a bigger bonus to one of your aspects (100% stronger I think). One hand and shield or focus on the other hand give you two normal strength aspects. My issue has been that there are so many better two hand weapons that are upgrades. To keep both one hand and off hand upgraded to be equal is a bit more work so always ends up easier just switch to the two hand.
you can’t use two hand on sorc because of specific weapon affix every weapon has. you need wand and focus just like you have to use 2 swords on rogue
You’re bad and you can’t think for yourself.
I use 2h weapon on my 76 Sorc. It’s great. Doubling the power of a single aspect is a great trade-off.
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yea im lvl 96 and i dare you to try that on nm 80+ and see if you can even get past first elites
I thought there was a thorn necro build in beta that used shields. I believe it was nerfed in some form or fashion though (or maybe just proved less viable as we got to higher levels.) Shame because it was kind of fun having creatures just kill themselves on your minions.
Well, there are shields and then there is fortify. Shields are more of less an invulnerable ability to get you out of a sticky situation. Unfortunately, they typically last only a few seconds and once it ends the mobs will just stun you again.
Fortify is like an additional health bar you can earn through a variety of skills and abilities.
+80% main-hand weapon DPS.
LOL just because you’re terribad and can’t do anything except builds that streamers tell you to do doesn’t mean everyone is that bad.
What second aspect would be required that you can’t use a stronger 2 Hand aspect on a staff?
just by seeing what you write I can bet your build is dogsh*t
Probably for when they add paladins in an expansion or cash shop bundle. I don’t know why anyone would give up the dps when there aren’t any skills as far as I know that utilize shields.
Yeah, so dogsh*t that I’m running NM dungeons with level 95 enemies while I’m still 76 with level 1 glyphs.
you can’t use 2h weapon because focus gives you cdr on set affix which is mandatory and 2h staffs only give you dmg vs cc enemies
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Only a bit less DPS for some defense. I dunno if it was what helped but I had zero issues with minion survivability while using a shield up to the first capstone dungeon. Just hard for me to say if the shield is the reason why. But yeah usually people seem to feel that the best defense is a good offense so the higher the dps the better.
ETA: Also I sort of feel like there aren’t enough aspects that I NEED to have so gaining an extra aspect spot doesn’t seem that exciting. Maybe if they introduce more in the future.
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Not really the aspect. You want the +Lucky Hit that wands have, and the +CD Reduction of a Focus. You are hurting yourself using a 2H weapon on Ice Sorc.