It'll be nice to have a shield that provide decent stats along with damage bonus to guns/bombs like Barbarous Thorn Shield (N/P Def - Sword Damage Bonus: Medium)
or maybe make BTS give damage to all weapons like Swiftstrike Buckler giving Attack Speed Increased: High to all weapons.
Gunslingers and Bombers DO need more love!
A bomber and gunslinger shield is a great idea, you have my support. But I agree with Juances only gunslinger plox
This has come up before, but with good reason; gunslinger builds are pretty shortchanged in the bonuses department. Personally I'd love to see what McConville's SK tech design style would do with something akin to a police riot shield.
I think putting a Bomb CTR: High on a 3*-only shield would be both simultaneously awesome and OP. Given that bombers rarely want/need to shield in the first place, having a weak 3* shield isn't much of a downside, and CTR is the ultimate bomber's buff.
HOWEVER, having a CTR: High shield would immensely improve the usability of the Bombastic and Mercurial demo sets. You'd end up with almost the same buffs as a mad/volcanic set, while trading off status weaknesses for a weaker shield.
Yes come to think of it you're right about bombers but my suggestion for gunners still stands.
A good gunslinger shield would probably look like a riot shield that has a piercing def aside from normal. Also increases the gun damage.
I personally think the shield should be circular with phantasmal cross-hairs on it. The plate shield series already looks like a riot shield.
Thumbs up for the gunner shield! :P
As has been said, Mad Bomber exists for the suicidal type of bomber. Nobody really uses it in shadow lairs, which says something about how popular a suicidal shield for bombers would be.
Anyways, if gunners want to trade some defense for offense, they can use an autogun. They're not in the fray enough for trading some status resistances on their shield for damage bonus to be equivalent.
How about a shield that gives one normal speed while shielding. Not exclusively for bombers or gunners but still very useful for them.
in the interest of equality, and not giving all the shiny toys to sword masters, there should be a shield for both gunners and bombers, probably gun ASI (since thast what the gunslinger line starts at) and bomb CTR (again seems to be the bonus at the start) - i do mean two separate shields btw just in case someone misinterprets this, two separate shields, one for each class
@windsickle mercurial shield? that would be interesting
Yeah I am a suicidal bomber (i have mad) and tend to use my shield a lot when im bombing (especially status). I really hate it when people purposefully leave out bombers in ideas...this game is in real need of equality, so since gunners are the least used, they should get the highest stats on the sheild, and bombers having somewhat weaker stats (low ctr at the start, then gets low ctr and low damage). Also Mecurial demo suit is not really an advantage to the bombers since the CTR sucks on it and the move speed is hardly noticable, and what does it earn you? you can get to treasure boxes half a second eariler than the rest of party?
I think it would allow Bombers to have another sets equiped than Mad Bomber without having to suffer through status punisment.
Gunners need much more love in this game... Polaris aside.
Ok for gunslinger but bombers already have the Mad and Mercurial suits that gives them 2 bonuses instead of one, so there's enough love for them.
I think someone suggested a gunsliger shield that hads a shape of a bull skull or something but can't find the thread right now.