What to spend my last shield points on?

[Jeril]

Jeril, your Shield Specialization training is as follows:

Skill name Mnemonic Ranks
Tower Shield Focus tfocus 3
Shield Bash bash 3
Shield Charge charge 3
Prop Up prop 3
Adamantine Bulwark bulwark 3
Deflection Training dtraining 3
Deflection Mastery dmastery 4
Block the Elements eblock 2
Deflect the Elements deflect 2
Guard Mastery gmastery 2
Tortoise Stance tortoise 3
Protective Wall pwall 1

Available Shield Training Points: 15

[Lady Sylvan]

Are you x3 in shield training, Jeril? Because that is one hell of a list.

[Soulance]

Isn't that the max for prop-up? PWall if you use groups but not as necessary because I belive others need it for it to have an effect. Too hard for another tfocus?

EDIT: Nevermind, I was thinking about Phalanx for groups. Any thoughts on getting a spiked shield? The added damage with mastery sounds fun..and it's passive.

[Archigeek]

You're missing the best shield skill: make whatever changes you need to, to add trample and trample mastery. Maybe you're ewaving instead, but your success rate will likely be much higher with trample.

[Fallen]

I read Jeril's post wrong.

http://forum.gsplayers.com/archive/index.php/t-80532.html

There's a list of the new shield maneuvers.

Steady Shield looks nice. Depending on how often you use the attacks consecutively, shield forward might be useful. Is Shield swiftness worthwhile if you're using a Tower?

[Donut]

I'm guessing you're trying to maximize passive abilities. Keeping in line with that, maybe another rank of pwall and another rank of tfocus.

I am not sure how good trample would be with only 3 ranks in shield bash, but rearranging to get maxxed trample and mastery could be fun.

[Roblar]

Is Shield swiftness worthwhile if you're using a Tower?

That manuever is limited to smaller shields (medium is the biggest allowed)

[Candor]

That manuever is limited to smaller shields (medium is the biggest allowed)

And having said that, shield swiftness is nice...

[Roblar]

And having said that, shield swiftness is nice...

It really is

Also Jeril, do Shield Push. It's like rogue's Divert and so fun to rearrange a room's critter selection. Especially for a more fun type of room control if you're helping out a youngin.

It was also reaaaaly great when it was introduced and GMs hadn't updated their NPC to be immune to it. :) I loved herding one towards the jail as part of a storyline. Like football. He had to keep fogging away from me back toward TC!

[Aganii]

Shield bash, shield charge training doesnt effect trample effectiveness

[Fallen]

Is Steady shield worthwhile if you're already using a Tower? Or is the idea if you're a warrior you'll just berserk your way out of a stun? Can you Berserk if you're in RT while stunned?

[Aganii]

I dont think that would be worth it cause as a warrior you would have to train Stun mans as well using up an already tight CMAN pool

[Jeril]

I think I will go with shield push for the time being. I am not really hunting with a shield right now as I've said else where I still have to max out polearms, I plan to go shield/spear. I also have to enchant a shield up and I want to make a perfect spear which will also be enchanted up. A 10x tower shield is only going to give me around +60 DS over my maul but I want it more for the blocking and guarding other people then I do the DS. And there are a few of the other maneuvers on my list that require a tower.