The Archers and the tourney shield

[Mannhammer]

Witness the power of the Yellow Tourney shield.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpXpsJlON74

Sorry for the pickup Masterwork Arrow box at the center of the screen. This is my first attempt at video. 

Is this a glitch? No, now you too can have your own unbreakable shield.

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How? Make a Char with shield skill 13. This will give all shields 103% 104% damage reduction.

-[EDIT]-
I hope the Devs can make time to fix this error. While their at it mabey they can fix archery missile speed too
Apparently, this was an intentional game mechanic chadz added.

Looks like its time for me and some friends to skip the fun

[Tears of Destiny]

Nooooooo it is not an error keep it!

[Mannhammer]

Nooooooo it is not an error keep it!

Lol it would be cool to see the rise of TMNT2

[Roran Hawkins]

+1 For the peasant for being able to hold 6 quivers in 1 shield, without running outta inventory slots.

[Tears of Destiny]

 

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Expanding upon this, let me introduce to you my now likely forgotten character name on the servers, recently re-incarnated as a Shielder using STF (allowance of a whopping 10,100 gold!)

After spending every thing I had on a shopping spree and leveling my character and selling my starting gear that I did not need, I was left with this.

Xocoyol

Level 30
Strength: 3
Agility: 39
Hit Points: 38
1 Power Strike
13 Shield
3 Weapon Master
One Handed: 130
Throwing: 5

1,594 Gold.

Nordic Leather Helm with Rings
Red Gambeson
Leather Gloves
Sarranid Leather Boots


Nordic Short Sword (Very dependable and fast and damaging, pretty good reach too!)
Hand Axe (103 speed and 28 cut against shields? Woah, look out I'm coming through!)
Dagger (130 wpf looks kinda nice with a 114 base speed weapon! Instant slice dem peasants!)
Cavalry Shield (105 base speed with 13 shield skill? BAM instant indestructable huge forcefield!)

Reserve Warchest(because I had oodles of cash left)

Scythe (for stopping cav if they are pesky, longest reach I can ge, almost 190! Nice damage too)
Practice Long Sword (every peasant needs one! Gotta practice!)
Throwing Knives (best throwing weapon out there, more damage then stones!)
Fire Bomb (Gotta step in from a poof of smoke now and be dramatic, and does a whopping 14 blunt, woah more then stones!)
Spiked Club (20 pierce damage? Count me in this is the best pierce you can get! Good for hunting pesky 30+ armored foes)
Club (It came free and has the best blunt damage you could ever ask for!)

I will never have to buy anything ever again with this character! (well, maybe silly ladders or siege shields) but other people can carry that stuff, right?).

Best build ever. Just relax and hit when you have a sure fire opportunity. Don't worry with your shield skill and my shield of choice, you can instantly recover into a block and your force field is hilarious!

EDIT: Crap I forgot to buy a cleaver... I mean C'mone, it is a freaking kitchen/butcher's cleaver! Need I say more?

Testing this out in battle it is not really over powered, and with 39 AGIL you don't need to have any athletics.
In duel server I managed to convince a few BRD members to duel with me, and if you fight agressive you can be destroyed in one or two hits, but using patience I managed to hit a guy 4 or 5 times with no return hits (They start getting sloppy after 40 seconds in frustration) before he ran away yelling I was cheating and canceled the duel (I had no idea duels could be canceled!  )
My apologies to those members.

I need to next hit Siege, but in the mean time it seems like this build is good for simply "existing" as a massive distraction (locking up top players is hilarious especially if they have something like a poleaxe), so I am OK with indestructable shields.

[Patricia]

Me, Gafferjack and Aldryk were the first to try this build the very same day the patch hit, it's not a glitch.

13 shield skills give 104% damage reduction to your shield making it unbreakable, it can still be crushed through or penetrated by a bolt in the case of an Arena shield.

The 3 of us got perma banned from NA 100 because they thought we were glitching/exploiting/hacking, Ecko has talked to chadz about this if it was intended or not and chadz told him that 13 shield skills was intended.

This build is pretty much the top support build, you do minimal damage if at all but you can stun players in the middle of a fight and distract them with your shield.

I remember one map in particuliar where I pretty much distracted the entire enemy team of I think 8 players at the time with Neo and we killed them all.

[Mannhammer]

Ha ha ha... O.K. good to know. Time to coordinate a shield squad     

[EponiCo]

This needs to be fixed or at least be made visible.

[Paroxysm]

well there's some obvious things that should tip you off you're fighting one of these guys. peasant-like garb and peasant weapon except the shield. way way defensive minded and very little offense. getting hit for 5-8hp. cmon, plus once you see this guy once it's no surprise after that.

anyways this isn't broken at all and i'm glad it's in the game, though i  never tried it myself. it's a pure support character, meant to distract in a melee and plug chokepoints in a siege. one great maul, mallet  or long maul will ruin its day with 3 str and no armor.

[Tears of Destiny]

well there's some obvious things that should tip you off you're fighting one of these guys. peasant-like garb and peasant weapon except the shield. way way defensive minded and very little offense. getting hit for 5-8hp. cmon, plus once you see this guy once it's no surprise after that.

anyways this isn't broken at all and i'm glad it's in the game, though i  never tried it myself. it's a pure support character, meant to distract in a melee and plug chokepoints in a siege. one great maul or long maul will ruin its day with 3 str and no armor.

You fear horse bumps like nothing else actually. I got couched and laughed, and then saw 3/4 of my health drop as the charger ran me over.

[Christo]

103% Resistance?

Lol, that's mathematically healing. 

[Bulzur]

103% Resistance?

Lol, that's mathematically healing. 

Have to test that. Pick a dented shield on the ground, and see if after a few hits it recovers. 

[Patricia]

Hnnngg, it's 104%!

[Mannhammer]

Corrected to 104%

[Kenji]

Lol it would be cool to see the rise of TMNT2

Or Captain America