Hunters With Shields

[SilentMick]

Can Hunters ever get shields with a trait or anything ?
just wondering

[mattjellis05]

Can Hunters ever get shields with a trait or anything ?
just wondering
i don't think so i have never seen a hunter with a shield not even a lvl50 hunter but they do get dual weilding at lvl20

[Sy-]

Indeed, we never learn to use shields. Why would we?
You try to draw a bow with a nice heavy shield strapped to one arm.

[Elisar]

hehehehehe

[nightbyday]

O.O

lets see we had a request for heavy armour recently, then a buff for melee skills coming and now shields......

Watch out champs your out of a job soon.


No hunters don't learn ( to be honest if the option was there i would prefer a two handed weapon... errrm i wonder if thats the melee buff hunters are going to get? option to shields or 2h weapons :P)

[zimoo]

My hunter has a shield equipped...sort of. I play my hunter like a guardian, and my guardian like a hunter, so in a very very strange way my hunter does have a shield. A bit lacking on the dps side of things though :p

From a lore standpoint I'd like to see us get shields and heavy armour, however I do think this would unbalance the class totally by removing our major weakness. It'd be like removing all inductions on minstrel heals so they can solo a crowd of mobs while spam healing :p

[MueR]

The main problem I have with the hunter, as we're talking induction times, is the induction times. My guardian can do all of his skills, always (save being stunned/silenced while doing so) , without interrupts by NPCs. The induction times are so long, that when you have 2 or 3 NPCs on you, you can safely forget all manners of bow usage. As our melee is still far below par, that means we're too weak to solo.

[Elisar]

when you have 2 or 3 NPCs on you
then u run like hell, or use df ;)

[Belion_]

easy

roll a champion

[Underhorse]

I know, we'll give you heavy armour, self and fellowship heals, mezzes, the ability to plant banners, summon pets, call your fellows to your side, big buffs for everyone AND heavy shields.

[Dirtball]

I know, we'll give you heavy armour, self and fellowship heals, mezzes, the ability to plant banners, summon pets, call your fellows to your side, big buffs for everyone AND heavy shields.
This isn't how we all feel so please get down off your high horse.

[Sy-]

I know, we'll give you heavy armour, self and fellowship heals, mezzes, the ability to plant banners, summon pets, call your fellows to your side, big buffs for everyone AND heavy shields.

For the love of god, the OP just asked if we could use shields or not. One, ONE person decides to moan that they can't melee as a hunter and you jump on that single post to rip at our class...

[Youso]

No hunters don't learn ( to be honest if the option was there i would prefer a two handed weapon... errrm i wonder if thats the melee buff hunters are going to get? option to shields or 2h weapons :P)

I was actually supprised we could even dual weild.

[Tyranno85]

what use do we hunters have for a shield, we have a guardian, and if the guardian is taking aggro good enough, we can nuke the npc to death, i dont, but the induction time is something else yes, with 2-3 npc's on you should beh happy to fire a quick shot or what about heartseeker, you're dead before you can fire it (at least, if you dont run away, or you dont have enough agil for parry/evade chance) myself i aggro maximum 2 npc's at the same time, by the time they're near me, one is dead and the other is either trapped or next to kill.

faster induction times are more usefull to hunters, then shields are!

[nicbass]

I know, we'll give you heavy armour, self and fellowship heals, mezzes, the ability to plant banners, summon pets, call your fellows to your side, big buffs for everyone AND heavy shields.

In other words a Captain! Well, apart from the mezz bit...

[nightbyday]

I know, we'll give you heavy armour, self and fellowship heals, mezzes, the ability to plant banners, summon pets, call your fellows to your side, big buffs for everyone AND heavy shields.

that would be fantastic, do you think it will happen any time soon?

do us a favour 'troll' please ask them NOt to give us a melee buff and concentrate on a hunters DPs as by design.