RANGER SHIELD - NO LAUGHINGFollow

Okay, I use 2HS, I prefer this and has come up about Shields for Rangers in Second Slot.(not ranged slot).

I know late on asking this but never occurred to me before now.

1. Can a Shield be in Second Slot if you 2HS.

2. If the Skill of Bashing is not available to Rangers if 1HS or 2HS what is the purpose and is it just protection only?

Will buy a Ranger Shield if can use with 2HS in order to improve stats. Which does not seem logical if using 2HS but does seem logical if the Shield is just placed in that second slot for protection.

Hope this makes sense and thanks.

HI YOU SHOULD NOT TITLE YOUR THREAD IN ALL CAPS. ITS KIND OF ANNOYING.

TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, NO WHEN YOU HOLD A 2H WEAPON IT TAKES UP BOTH SLOTS AS LOGICALLY IT WOULD TAKE BOTH HANDS. BASHING ONLY WORKS WHEN YOUR HOLDING A SHIELD.

I will be an *** with this comment but I can't resist.

You have a level 65 ranger and didn't know the answer to your original post?

Maybe a shroud with 4 arms?

Some sheilds have great stats and bonuses, with Bandolier you could easily equip a sheild plus one handers when you are attacking from range and when melleeing swap to your other weapon(s) of choice.

This one is a good question.

If you are the only other melee type in a group and your MT goes down, a decent shield will help you.

I'm a 61 warrior and there's still much I don't know about shields.

For example, is there some hidden mitigation bonus you get when using a shield? My little 38 AC shield seems to help a lot, but maybe that's perception. Some quick parses on SteelWarrior say "no" there is no hidden bonus, but for some reason there are some arguments about it. Maybe the help simply comes in the form of less mob ripostes and something little like 0.5% less damage from the extra AC.

Is there still something called an AC soft-cap? If I'm not mistaken, that's a point where additional AC gives diminishing returns. If so, do shields raise that cap? Some information posted from a few expansions ago says "yes", but I don't know if that's still true or even relevant (if the cap is so high now that it doesn't matter to normal players).



Edited, Tue Sep 20 13:05:15 2005 by JoltinJoe

66 paladin too.... which for sure must gotta needa oughta shoulda used 1h+shield and/or 2h weapon sometime in the 66 levels.

If you had read my message, you would have seen that I have taken my Ranger down the same path as my Pally.

However, that said my Pally has always had the cability to do 1HS, Bash and 2HS.

This seems to be making your day and blown out of portion. Which is fine with me though a simple question and others have answered it.

The question was and has been answered was for my Ranger. After the discussion last night, I had wondered (for my Ranger) had I missed something or was this player talking out of his elbow.

Was posted as a simple question to make sure I had not missed anything for my Ranger as to protection and/or something new had been added to that Class and to have confirmation of what I thought was true. For my Pally in AA there is a Bash for 2HS available, so not that far fetched that Ranger might be able to use a shield while 2HS and I had overlooked it.

Duh, didn't get my Ranger (verging on 66, over 7K hp when buffed) nor my Pally (66, over 7.5K hp) by leveling in basket weaving.

My question was answered and the player last night was incorrect.

So, thanks for the good replies and letting me know that nothing had been added to the Class that I was not aware.