What do you think is the best shielder build?

[EyeBeat]

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[EyeBeat]

You question my weapon choices?! I'll have you know I despise the steel pick and the (elite) scimitar! Those are the weapons of knaves! it is only forgiveable to use them in strat if you didn't buy them! Real agi shielders use axes and stabby swords!

You lost my respect when you started riding those beasts....

[Matey]

You lost my respect when you started riding those beasts....

I only did one quick gen with a horse! and I changed my name! and did almost entirely strat battles for it! You filthy strength crutcher! D:

[Malaclypse]

I went 18/24 because I wanted to get Polearm and 2h prof in addition to 1h, for variety (it's still not enough, I need 10 WM really). Probably my ideal dedicated 1h prof build would be 24/24 (level 36) or 21/24 (33-35), though I'm definitely with Matey and Kalam on the 8+ athletics front.

[Erzengel]

I am using 18/24 at the moment and it is awesome.

Level 32:

4 Iron Flesh
6 Power Strike
8 Athletics
5 Shield
0 Weapon Master

102 One Handed
61 Polearm

[dreadnok]

30 str
9 agi

0 ath
10 PS
10 if
3 shield
1 wm

[CrazyCracka420]

I'd say 21/18 at level 30, 24/18 at 33.

Level 30:

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    Strength: 21
    Agility: 18
    Hit points: 56

    Converted: 8

    Power Strike: 7
    Shield: 6
    Athletics: 6
    Weapon Master: 4

    One Handed: 139

Level 33:

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    Strength: 24
    Agility: 18
    Hit points: 63

    Converted: 8
    Ironflesh: 2
    Power Strike: 8
    Shield: 6
    Athletics: 6
    Weapon Master: 4

    One Handed: 143

[The_Bloody_Nine]

Generally I like higher ath, mainly because you can freely choose where to engage and choose more risky paths (= not go with main blob). Also cav. Then again 1h really is more fun with 7-8 PS.

So at the moment I say 24/15 (my current shielder) or 24/18 if you can.

[Moncho]

I have not yet decided, and never been over 31, but the ones I have had the most fun with are 12/24 some 6 months ago, and 21/18 lately.
Getting a short weapon and outreaching greatswords has always been my favourite playstyle, dancing in their faces and back out, and the 12/24 build does that perfectly.

However, lately I have had internet and computer issues that make my fps and ping suffer, so I am lately going for the more forgiving 21/18. I have strangely not liked any other build in between, lacking damage, which I worked around with the 12/24 with speed bonus.
Never played much strat, found it a gank fest.

[Taser]

I have not yet decided, and never been over 31, but the ones I have had the most fun with are 12/24 some 6 months ago, and 21/18 lately.
Getting a short weapon and outreaching greatswords has always been my favourite playstyle, dancing in their faces and back out, and the 12/24 build does that perfectly.

However, lately I have had internet and computer issues that make my fps and ping suffer, so I am lately going for the more forgiving 21/18. I have strangely not liked any other build in between, lacking damage, which I worked around with the 12/24 with speed bonus.
Never played much strat, found it a gank fest.

If you like 12/24. You should love 15/21. I have an alt with that that can have a shield but I'm just using him as a swashbuckler. You can make it 15/24 if you want though if you take out shield and riding.

I have a lot of fun with him.

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Strength:15
Agility:21

One Handed:154

Weapon Master:6
Athletics:7
Riding:6
Shield:5
Power Strike:5

[Matey]

If you like 12/24. You should love 15/21. I have an alt with that that can have a shield but I'm just using him as a swashbuckler. You can make it 15/24 if you want though if you take out shield and riding.

I have a lot of fun with him.

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Strength:15
Agility:21

One Handed:154

Weapon Master:6
Athletics:7
Riding:6
Shield:5
Power Strike:5

15/21 is no good. that 8th athletics makes all the difference.

[Taser]

15/21 is no good. that 8th athletics makes all the difference.

I do just fine with it. It does have an excess of skills if you want to remove things but I like it.

[Moncho]

What Matey says, I felt a big difference with 7 vs 8 athl, plus with 4 ps, I expected to do very little damage, and compensated with movement, but with 15/21 I felt like I lacked damage. I know it is a mental issue, since I did more damage most of the time, but that little damage was not worth it compared to the extra mobility for me.
Also, bucklers improve so much with shield skill, it lasted so much longer and covered arrows better with 8 shield, so with 7 I had to use elite cav and similar which slow you down even more
And my 12/24 was a backstabber, whereas with the 15/21 I had to stay with the main group much more often.

[Haboe]

My own...

lvl 34
21-21
7-7-7-7-1
sh-ath-wm-ps-if

Ofc, level 35-36 gets if maxed out

[Corsair831]

of all the builds i've tried i like my current build the best

Level 32:

18/21

One Handed:127
Polearm:127
Weapon Master:7
Athletics:7
Iron Flesh:2
Shield:7

But for that build you need light armour and a short 1h (~~ 97 and below) (the low 1h wpf and low powerstrike means using a long 1h is useless)

If you want to use a long 1h (nordic champion sword) however, you need more 1h WPF but less speed, meaning you can't really effectively hoplite, but you can wear more armour

 but if you wanted to do that i'd suggest a 21/18 build with ~~ 14-18 armour weight ...

i'd always put around ~~ 10-20% of my WPF points into polearm when going 1h, giving me some defence in the open against cavalry, but i'd dump the majority into 1h.