I've only had crap shields, but does block ever show up on shields in this game? Since it's an equipment slot that could be taken up with a weapon for dual wielding or switched to a 2 handed weapon, it having only additional physical armour makes it so it's wasted after that bar is depleted, and less useful the longer the fight goes. So do any good shields eventually give block?
I think shields should indeed be reworked.
They should offer:
- much more physical armour than they currently offer (a shield bearer is the typical tank!)
- more and better status effects and bonuses
Introducing a special block system just for shields would imo require two much work and would at least partially be redundant with how physical armour works. But without much better stats shields are indeed kind of pointless, since the take away your second hand and since they also cost 1 additional AP in combat (which is imo spot on if correctly balanced with serious benefits).
