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Warrior strap their shields on for easy access in battle. In order to protect themselves from surprise attack they practice shield handling in order to react and block in split seconds even in tight and awkward situations like falling from a blow from an enemy. If you want to talk about realistic, this is possible.

lol
Look at the 9D shield, is it small? No.
But you can still carry a shield and use it to block without using your hands to take it from back-pack or whatever. This is the case Achilles in the film "Troy".

This prove you got no experience about real life fighting, please go watch more martial art film
And don't just jump on me every time i post as if you want to attack me. I'm not the type of person who always do report a small flame nor need anyone to protect.

You want me so bad, ain't you?

bah, real fighters would wear a shield on their back and front...

game fighters will do whatever to make ego better...

i couldn't say better
very good example.

Reminds me of that gay Spartan Suit Oo

u make urself sound like u've been raiding babylon for the past two centuries..

it's not unfair using it if the game allows. this game is full of bugs. like the one i hate most, fireshield that still works when your shields are off.

i too feel that "ability to equip shield while knocked down" should be a bug that should get fixed, along with tonnes of others.

else ... they should let rogues run faster when equipped with dagger

right. so when your knocked down and your on your back, ON TOP of the shield, your gonna ask for time out so you can get up, put the shield on your arm, then lay back down? the only possible way to block with the shield on your back, would be to roll over into your belly, but i dont see that happening in sro.

rofl... why is it that your always arguing the loseing side of everything? you must really love drama. and once again, try to stay on topic. i could care less about your emo crap.

mm i treat it like snow shield or iron wall or kb

if Jm gives it to us why not use it?

they give us a shield, they give us the ability to wip it out whenever we want so why not

just btw...who said that switching to shield is a bug? the ppl...joymax got about 2 years time to fix that bug, but haven`t fixed it yet? for me it`s no bug. so my suggestion is:

1. deal with it
2. spam joymax with bugreports
3. quit the game if you can`t deal with it.

That's just one among the examples. No one force anyone to carry a shield on the back, it could be in front. He could also grabs a random shield on the ground, or anything, a piece of wood, to use as shield.
What i'm trying to say is shield could be anything with symbolic meaning, it doesn't need to be a piece of metal. Take off a helmet or your armor to use as shield, etc...
Moreover, event "being able to block an attack while laying on the ground" exists in real life. So using a shield to block is just a symbolic event. And JM is not thus stupid to implement event "take smt from the inventory" or "turn around" or "take a piece of wood on the ground to block", don't you think so?

Please next time use your head to think. You don't need to understand ppl's words in black and white. Human has a head to imagine, not just eyes and a mouth.

You need to point out that the head symbolises mind so that Fly can understand that.

/no flames from Venus allowed oO

EDIT: You don`t need a shield a shield to block an attack in real life...you can also use the weapon in your hands for that...

true.. just make an appointment with Fly for a practical test.

Whoever manages to post within the next few weeks after the fight was right

i havent bothered to read the whole thread, this is just my opinion on the initial post. what the hell are you talking about??? What do you mean "what can a blader or swordsman do?" You HAVE a shield. That’s what you can do. You arent in any different position than someone who pulls out a shield. Let me ask you a better question. What can I do to compensate for the fact that you ALWAYS have a shield? How, by your standards, is it fair that you always have a shield, which add defence + blues all the time?? The fact that this disscusion has gone on for like 8 pages or however long it is seems rediculious. I may skim through the whole thread later to see if there is valid reasoning for such a long discussion.

Well, can't you just say that as the animation of falling you would take out your shield in mid air and cover yourself? Since you guys like to make a game feel like real life to get you guys all wet.

PPL, if u PLEASE stop trying to make everything sound logic, ok?
if u can explain this, then plz explain a warrior cleric holding a 2handed sword, and a one handed sword and a shield, and a couple of dual axes with a cleric rod. even achillis cant do that -.-
not everything is meant to logical.. if it was then the game would be retarded and hypocratic.

i agree with you on everything but the hypocratic part. i see no physicians.

this is a game, you cant make it logical, if that were the case then how are people throwing balls of fire, bolts of lightning, and casting spells n shit.

/facepalm. This isn't a debatable matter. Even if it's not realistic that you can pull out a sheild while on the ground, sro is a game!!! Note 'game' we aren't in real life. I think it's a exellent tactic. The GM's allow it, so then it's fair. Many examples can be use and both sides of this argument have valid points but i think we should just agree that it's fair. Even if we all agree it's unfair, Gaymax isn't going to stop it. And neither are the other players. It's going to keep happening. Nothing is 'fair'. You can't always get your way.

+1

Most people trying to compare real life things with the game. I don't see straw ducks running around with butcher knifes trying to kill people and shit. Silkroad DOES NOT equal Real Life! QUIT TRYING TO MAKE GIVE EXAMPLES COMPARING THE TWO! IF YOU MURDER SOMEONE IN REAL LIFE TO SOMEONE IN SILKROAD, ITS NOT THE FCKING SAME SHIT CUNT MASTERS! LOL

uh huh.. this peice of wood on the ground just happens to be +7 every single time... and in a rounde shape... your just epic fair. the most you talk the dumber you sound.

and a shield on your front instead of back? are you serious? good luck reaching around it to attack someone. if its not on your arm, its either on your back, or small enough to be in a pack.

time to go block peoples attacks with my random peice of +7 wood laying next to me...

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

i actually loled

Who care if it's a round shape every single time or not? As long as it could happen in real life, there is no reason it shouldn't be in game.
Fly you lost.

I fought a blader that was a lvl higher then me on my 2h warrior. I never used the shield trick until then when he kept kd'ing me and stabbing me to death, I kept kding him and bashing him to death, almost a draw until once, JUST ONCE, I switched to my 1h sword and shield after I got knocked down and he starts whining about how I'm such a noob for using a "cheap" trick. Well I never actually blocked while down, but he did like 3 times in a row.

If you wanna play like that how about all Chinese max out their pot delay? Shields are shields, most likely the person who has the shield and its not part of their build has a pretty shitty shield [srsly, doubt they'll spend alot on it]

The game is TOTALY fair, if there was only one way to fight we'd all be mindless morons pressing the number keys randomly while staring at our monitors.


EDIT: AND OMG!! ITS A GAME FOR HEAVENS SAKE! They put very little "reality" in it, your lucky you even get human characters. Do what you can with the game to be the best, if it was about realism strategies would be completely different, you can actually sword fight without wondering when a Armageddon meteor will fall on you!

Well a non warrior/ non bich user will not have the br passives so its not that super unfair, cause they can only block as much as their shield br has. Where as a warrior/ bich has higher chance plus warrior gets crit reduce and defense increase passive beyond just the shield.

/facepalm. *Sigh* people have gone over the deep end. They are starting to think sro is reality. -.- If some one wants to pull out a sheild, big freakin woop! It's not a big deal! This is a GAME. This thred requires a facepalm pix ploxy nao.

This work?

if you are a 2 hand weapon holder, u normally have more dmg than a 1 hand weapon holder with a shield. This thread is 3 pages long not 8.

and quit comparing sro to real life ffs >.>

Thankies very much.

why is it you can't block with a spear/glaive or bow? by all means, lower block rates with spear/glaive or reduced durability for bow. just a thought ...