Well. I made a Archer Build with : Level 30 (4 420 577 xp)
Strength: 18
Agility: 18
Skills to attributes: 2
Power Strike: 6
Shield: 5
Athletics: 6
Power Draw: 6
Weapon Master: 6
One Handed: 100
Archery: 135
And it died after 3-5 hits of a non shield breakable wepaon.
So it kinda sucks. But I liked it cus it's fast.
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LeoKing, used/uses steel buckler for a long time, he was top of scorebored. I don't think it had only to do with his shield skill or the shield himself though, but understanding game mechanics and that needs experience and also to read onto those topics here in the forum and most important spectate good players (those in your class to see how they handle different foes and those of other classes to see if they use similar patterns and then you can find a way to get to them).
Steel buckler 5-8 shield skill depending on weapon and what overall playstyle you are going for.
If you see axes or other shieldbreakers(make yourself familier with all of them how they look) and you have someone close by and there is at least another enemy without sheildbreaker it is a about foodwork so that you can position yourself that you engage the foe without sheildbreaker or are able to switch inbetween them. If it is only one enemy and you have a wingman, then let him be the front man and you try to get hits from the side. If you are the one facing the shieldbreaker you need to play high risk and very agressiv, meaning feintspam, outmanouver and spam when you think he would glance.
...which is something KingGylpe and Kinngrimm abuse on daily basis...
QQ their shields dont break in 4 strikes aboooze, they use forcefield, QQ i cant block shit so i need excuses to blame others because it just cant be me doing mistakes. There are plenty of players who get normal attacks which you often don't get, there are a lot of players who catch me feinting and kill me still. When i spectate you i often think to myself oh god why the fuck didn't he saw that coming, i think that with you more then with others i never lost a word till now about it. You fail on such a tremendous level so often, i see you regularly disengage out of fights leaving your teammates to die because you were hit one time. Sure you will then be the last on the battle field, but that doesn't make your team allways win.
Abuse my ass. I needed to invest fucking awful lots of points into a skill which basicly allows me only to have my shield not been broken for a little bit longer, when the fuck is your or other weapons are broken ... Leshma just give me more of the bs come at me.
Btw how is it that any clan you join you are out of it only after a couple of days or a few weeks? Must be those clans, can't be you!
Kinngrimm, you're right about me failing a lot. I'm not the best player but I know how to get kills. People know that. People also know that you're a nice guy and total scrub who hides behind his shield since he started playing this game. I know that because I remember when you started playing, I was among first people that helped you with some things :wink:
Leshma i am just tired, of people calling me abuuser, while i don't use cheats, bugs or unknown gamemechanics which not everyone could use for themselves. STF 15 shieldskill builds had been out there, indistructable shields, i dont even have that and never will, i just go for durability so i get a chance to strike and yes i am stubborn about my shield, majorly because it takes so much time to get anywhere here in this game and i never could be arsed to learn manual blocking in that way yes i am a nuub and i intend to keep it that way. The nice thing about different classes is, noone has to do it in a fixed way. And i challenge anyone to use the exact build i posted in "solid builds" thread to use it and get not only my scores but as many people can vouch for also be there when a teammate needs help. I go out on the flank to go get back to the center for several reason.
One of my first suggestions i have done, was that we should be able to respec at any given time, so that you would be able to basicly play any class at any time. You wouldn't loose stuff to STF or alts, you would be able to fill out roles in strategus as needed. You would need to make more genereations more often for more weapons if you want to loom stuff for different classes therefor would go later for max level. You would gain soo much flexibility,
but it is not heared by our god.
So i am stuck with a leveling system which binds me to the one class i like best and want to get better in.
The best leveling and character building system i have encountered so far was that of Guildwas, i managed to burn arround 4200 hours in that game, had a guild with 25 active players we were a mostly pure PVE guild with but lots of fun in the later not so serrious PvP areas from the first addon.
The System allowed me to freely combine at any given time any attribute and skillpoints you had at any level your had at the time. Later they included a build load/save function which then made me collect all the builds of all my 10 characters which in the end i had a collection of arround 140 builds. For any type of situation, any type of foes and any type of team combos needed i had my build for it :) i loved to have that collection and i was able to tell you all about the the skills in those builds, i followed any patch and how those skills were changed and i changed first hand my builds acordingly if needed.
If not for the option to flexible recombine my attributes and skills i would have been out of the game after perhaps 500-700 hours if not for the loading of builts i would have been perhaps out of that game after 1400 hours. Giving the player the abilities to complettly customize his char over and over again is a huge turn on
And people who think that buckler is not suited for battlefield should stop judging medieval times by hollywood movies, and at least try to google before they post such crap.