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Shield Stability, Damage Reduction, and Cooldown Values and Enchantments

I think the huge nerf to shields is handled horribly. it should work how shields work in souls games in my opinion. Shields can have a total damage reduction factor and a total damage allowed of stability. For example if a shield has 80% damage reduction, and 10hp of stability, then the shield blocks 80% of incoming damage but can only take 10 hp before it goes on a cool down.

All three of these, the cooldown, damage reduction, and stability, can all be based on enchantments Damage reduction can be called Deflection I - V

Stability can be called Stabilization I - III

Cooldown can be called Reinforcement I - II

 

This was an old comment on one of slicedlime's snapshot videos that I forgot to submit as feedback on an official site but here you go.

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    I like this idea, especially since it fixes blocking while attacking.

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    I like this idea against mobs. You can reduce the damage you take from them, and after blocking an attack, you can hit them back, since they have a little cooldown after having their attacks blocked by the shield.

     

    On the other hand, swords have so much DPS that would make shields pointless in PvP situations. Your 10 hp of stamina/stability will deplete so quickly against a normal iron sword which deals 10 damage in less than a second, and blocking a single attack won't be worth it since you'll be instantly hit again because of the swords' high attack speed.

     

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    But then what would be the point of axes? The cooldown and blocking percentage is a great concept, but at the same time, it would kinda remove the purpose of axes being used to disable shields. That's just my opinion though.