Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-28035907-20160929150355

Prologue: Let’s be fair, Shields are not sheer decorational artifacts with fancy designs, nor symbols representing and displaying your allegiance to a faction/order/clan/kingdom. Who would opt for bearing into battlefield mounds of weight input into a piece of metal, if such’s only utility is to supposed “glorify” whoever you fight for? As far as I’ve learned in History classes there is something that sounds rather more adequate and fitting to exercise this exaltation.

 Ide a /Solution: Basically, Coat Of Arms combined with a piece of clothing (similarly to a banner/cape) would form a mantle, with the coat of arms itself being pictured in front of your playermodel, and   on the back just more of plain cloth, with colours of choice. Yes... I don’t know the exact term for this. And no, the back wouldn’t “fly” ressembling a cape, so suck it Mojang.



Thus one of this addition/modification’s pros would be Shields becoming functional/practical on defensive postures, although slowing your player slightly.

* (+) Coat Of Arms Clothing (reward for achieving high aligment with a faction, or other things amog it that are considered shield-worthy.

* (+) Working Shields (Better PvP & More Realism)

* (-) Decorational Shields

Conclusion/”Why?”: This is just something players have forever been requesting (mainly the shield part) and would surely please a big portion of the community as a whole. My original ideas was to dictate of the status that should be arranged on each Shields, or be (BlockCooldown, DamageAbsorption, Knockback (?), Durability, BlockingTime) but it would go further on a topic I should not approach on the very same thread, as this suggestion may barely be capable of actually occuring in the future.

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PS: This coa t would be wore by high members of a faction  (Lords/Ladies, Warchiefs, Captains, etc; perhaps even Banner Beares). Except for Orcs perhaps, as I hardly see them using one, Black Numenoreans, Men of Rhuadaur and others Servants of Evil yet could.

PS n.2: Shields would no longer be a Elite-NPC Only feature, although those would portain higher chance to Spawn with one (that would block certain attacks, yes) than those of the ordinary Ilk.

Ex: Bla ck Uruks have 80% chance of spawning with a Shield, meanwhile Mordor Orcs only 20-30%.

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