great sword

[Gigantic Whore - War/Wiz/Con/3v3 Champ]

i always thought that gs could still block while you're moving.

Why in gods name would you post a suggestion when you don't even know something as simple as this?!

How could you have thought this, have you EVER seen a warrior run and block spells with gs while running?

Do you realize the chaos I could do if this were possible? Think about it.

[philliyxx]

Why in gods name would you post a suggestion when you don't even know something as simple as this?!

How could you have thought this, have you EVER seen a warrior run and block spells with gs while running?

Do you realize the chaos I could do if this were possible? Think about it.

any warrior would be at least 5x better. pick up a gs and block almost everything while running around?! lol oh that would be way over powered.

[n0x]

i meant while walking.  but i guess this isnt true anyway. i have played warrior class extensively. someone told me that and i was stupid enough to believe it. i even tried it out and it didnt work, but i just figured i was doing it wrong lol.

[philliyxx]

you can kind of do it by tapping the walk button really fast but not very effective.

[Morden Tral]

uploading here because...just because

[zaratzul]

heres a wacky idea but let me just throw it out just in case, Nox is about reflexes and and reaction time. What if the shield could have a button that you use to ricochet spells/projectiles as they come in, (you must be stopped to do this).

Example: Fireball coming in on the target, Press Right click at the exact moment that the spell would hit, Spell Deflected. If your too slow you take half damage, if your too fast you take full damage because your shield misses the target and it hits you.

That was the shield can be used well in the right hands and has a useful purpose, but doesn't make warriors god.. There would be a slight delay between shield blocks to allow for wizards to get a few spells through unless the warrior is willing to Juke > Block > Juke > Block


If we went with this idea, would needs lots of testing and working out to make sure it wasn't encumbering for warriors or overpowered.

I love this idea. It gives some more utility to shields. It should give you some knockback though. ( because of the impact )
Though, you should stand still as soon as you use this "reflect" ability, and be able to use it while running.

[#zx.pr0jk]

How about this.

The "block" is a low cooldown warrior skill that can be used with or without a shield, but doesn't produce a deflection without a shield, only the secondary effect. Cooldown would be slightly shorter than harpoon to allow it to be used twice in one quick engagement.

When pressed, the shield is instantly readied for a moment followed by a mandatory quick, somewhat fast "roll" a few feet toward your cursor. Upon standing again, the equipped shield is readied at a faster speed if the player is not sending a movement command. So if you press the button, you deflect for a moment, then roll toward your cursor allowing you to decide mid roll if you want to run or to adopt your defensive stance. I think the roll portion of the skill would take as long as it would to ready the shield if you were standing still. So instead of waiting to ready your shield, you press the block/roll skill and turn the ready animation into a roll animation. The warrior is not protected during the roll. Simply moving a defined distance somewhat faster than his possible runspeed.

This would serve two purposes:

1) Give the warrior a skill based block using shield since it requires both timing, and tracking to deflect a spell as it is about to hit you, otherwise fail.
2) Gives warriors with or without a shield, the ability to close the distance to a target a little bit faster. And more dramatically.
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3) Give them the ability to roll perpendicular to the target for a brief moment allowing them to line up a sudden ram as you enter the standing state.

[Morden Tral]

4) Would look fucking badass in the game