Carapace Shield Needs Buffing

[drspendlove]

One item I think needs buffing is the Carapace Shield:

+7 Parry
+16% Auto-block
7 Levels

Compare this to the Hunter's Shield which trades a tiny bit of parry for more auto-block for FEWER levels!

+6 Parry
+18% Auto-block
5 Levels

Another comparison you can make is the Carapace Shield to the Defender's Shield where for the same number of gear levels you trade 1 parry for 14% more auto-block:

+6 Parry
+30% Auto-block
7 Levels


The change that I think needs to be made to make this shield ever worthwhile is to lower its Gear Levels down to 5. Even still it might merit an additional +1 Parry to make it competitive, or more thematically, +2 Armor or perhaps +2% Deflection. (It would be the only shield with such bonuses, which would be kinda neat.)

Any agreement?

[Cory Trese]

it does sound like Carapace is underpowered, let us take a look and see if we can figure out why.

[havnor]

I would be for that plus armor maybe even +4... I think than it should be used with other non autoblock strategies and will add nice variability...

[fallen]

Improved Carapace Parry and added +10% Deflection, renamed to Orion Shield.

Reduce AB on Defender's Shield to 26%

[drspendlove]

Ah, that sounds like it could work!