Anyone know why shieldbash will do a dismember one round then a graze the next round or two? I don't understand the inconsistency damage wise when using it every 2 rounds.
Shield Warrior vs PVE
Maybe it attempted to do one of its special attacks? Regular shield bash may just hit for pure damage, but when it attempts to silence someone, it just grazes? Though I'm not 100%, but I had a thought of how bad ass it would be if a Warrior with Shield Lore came up it would be similar to Ranger arrows in the sense it can bash for a specific reasoning like silence or bleed and along with any other added affects it can already do.
I'm taking about doing the shield bash directly instead of a regular bash or kick.
I was talking about the same thing. As far as I know you can't really shield bash without it being your expertise/mastery and then lore anyways.
I'm pretty sure I expertised in mace and staff, mastery in staff and lored shield. That gave me all the defense I could possibly need PVE plus my favorite offensive weapon for PVP.
Shieldbash triggers automaticially every couple rounds during combat plus I'm able to activate it 'like bash' every two rounds, sometimes it dismembers and other times it grazes. I can't figure out why it grazes, I even look to check if it's triggered off that same round but that doesn't seem to affect it, still a dismember or a graze.
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That's why I thought since it has special procs that will cause you to have the ability to silence people or make them bleed that if it failed a silence (I'm unsure if it sends off any kind of message if it fails or not), then it would 'graze' a person. But when you shield bash for just raw damage that was when you hit with a DISMEMBER. Last time I played with Shield bash though I don't think they had it as a lore, but I did like the perks of it in general.