Magic Items under CBM

[Tollund]

Originally Posted by Jarkko

I don't like the two handers getting too high Defense bonuses. They already are longer and thus will be able to repel, and they are not IMO so "agile" that it would warrant an increas on Defence stats. I mean, you are not supposed to be as good defending with a two-hander as you are with a one-hander + shield, right?

Well, the shields do tend to have extra effects that are the source of most of their actual defensive power. The air shields don't, the lead shield is the only one that's purely earth that provides an extra effect, and all of the other shields provide secondary effects that are arguably more powerful than the extra protection and parry they provide. Luck, vines, eye loss, lightning damage, fire shield or awe, etc. A two-handed weapon has to offer something useful in order to be as good as those effects.