It's in your head. Paul or cmp stated a while back that melee coverage is the same for every shield (and significantly worse than manual blocking). I'd like to test it myself some time though.
Huh... interesting. I too have a running list of game mechanics I want to test... maybe we should have ourselves a hot date in the duel server and test some of these things?
I used a Heavy Round for a long time, nice shield, but it's heavier, less durable, and much slower than the heavy kite. Lateral coverage against projectiles is better, but more relevant in battle than siege (I generally know where the arrows are coming from in siege).
Yeah... imo the heavy round has kind of gimped stats since its round shape supposedly makes it far better cover vs ranged. Idk how much I buy into that, since I used to use a knightly heater all the time and never once have I noticed arrows hitting me where they wouldn't if I had the heavy round. It should be noted I had 1 more shield skill with the knightly heater than I do using the heavy round, but still... forcefields OP I guess (but please keep them like that).
Don't think so. I always die before my shield due to kicks/phantom swings that go around block/crushthrough, so I don't know why I even care about durability. Hell, the best attack is usually the one right after the shield breaks (the animation is really weird).
Yeah, one time me and a clanmate were ganking a poor fellow and so we just kept spamming our swings in perfect sync so he couldn't ever drop his block... once his shield broke I got all excited (it took damn near 8-10 swings total, kinda long considering I was using my swiss) and continued to spam overheads at him... only all of a sudden his side sword was protruding from my skull and I was sitting in a pool of blood on the ground. There is definitely a weird thing where the first half of the attack animation is cut off, yet the attack still started while the "stunned" animation shows. That, or its just some latency issue.
Also, Taser just join our clan already, I'll even let you taze me bro
Well, this is all a moot point since he would rather stick with his dead clan... but, we claimed Tasah before you! He's already got one foot in the door (his stf) with us hounds, and should tkov ever disband completely, we will drag the rest of his body in by that very foot!