For the love of god, please fix shield UV's.

Adding status resists to shields is useless.

Sleep, Stun, Poison, curse, and Freeze are practically worthless status resists on shields.

The status resists on shields are only useful against haze bomb-like effects to prevent their application to you.

Sleep doesn't exist, so GG on that.

Curse doesn't really do anything. It's possible it would help defend against phantom attacks, but I doubt it.

Stun, poison, and freeze are only really applicable to griever and zombie series enemies, as T3 grievers leave a haze effect behind, and zombies breathe status effects.

Fire and shock? Decently useful... If it wasn't for the fact that 90% of players are using either an Owlite Shield or Crest of Almire, which already HAS shock and fire resist.

I was so excited about Punch. So, so excited. Until I found out that shields have status UV's now.

So, instead of showering Punch with crowns until he upgraded my Grey Owlite Shield to have Shadow : Max and Pierce : Max, I refuse to touch the jerk.

2 useless UV's, 3 nigh-useless UV's, 2 undesirable UV's, and 2 non-preferred UV's, and 2 preferred UV's does not a good merchant make.

I suppose if you had a shield that only had normal defense, there would be 3 preferred UV's, but why on earth you would is beyond me.

I propose that Shield UV options be changed completely.

Rather than the following UV options...

Sleep
Curse
Stun
Poison
Freeze
Fire
Shock
Normal
Elemental
Piercing
Shadow

Change the above to things players would actually WANT.

Normal
Elemental
Piercing
Shadow
Health (Shield Health)
Shield Regeneration Rate (7.5% faster shield regen rate, capping at 45% faster for Maximum!)

Those are my basic ideas, things every player would like.

Why have 7 unique options out of 11 that would merely depress a player who just spent 15~375k, when you can have 6 unique options that they'll be happy with? Perhaps not the one they want, but not useless.

Also, though perhaps controversial, you could add a Unique Variant that gives a straight-up health bonus.

See : Heart Pendant, Scarlet Shield.

+2 HP (Low)
+3 HP (Med)
+4 HP (High)
+5 HP (Max)

This would do two things.

1. Decrease desirability for players to "farm" Love Puppies for their trinkets.

2. Increase the total Unique Options for Shields to be on-par with Bombs. (7 different options)