Sword and Shield Attributes

[GrimmRabbit]

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• What is your character name in New World: Grimm Rabbit

• What server/world did you experience your issue on: Ashok Vatika

• Describe the issue you are experiencing:
  When using a sword and shield, the shield attribute is ONLY applied when you have the shield drawn. I am a 300 str build currently. When I have my shield equipped and out, i have my 300 strength bonus. When I swap to my secondary weapon I lose my 300str bonus because the shield attribute deactivates. I lose half of my stats by using a sword and shield if I switch to another weapon.

• Is this a bug or an exploit: Clearly a Bug. No way Amazon would penalize tanks for using a secondary weapon compared to all other weapons and halving their weapon attributes.

• (if a bug) How did the issue effect your gameplay: I lose stats compared to any other build. I also lose key strength passives which makes it quite hard.

• (if a bug) Were you able to recover from the issue: No, all attribute stats are tied to having the actual shield drawn.

• (if a bug) Please include a screenshot or video of the issue that you have experienced:
  

  
  - with shield drawn and opened in attributes menu. 11 str shield, 11 str sword.
  
  
  - with hammer drawn and opened in attributes menu. 11 str shield, 11 str sword.

• What are the steps to reproduce the issue as you experienced: Equip any shield/sword combo. Let’s say max stats on weapons are 10. 5 will be on your sword, and 5 on your shield. When you swap to your secondary weapon, you will only retain the stat points on the sword. The shield attributes are lost.

Proposed Fix adjust the attributes from the shield to 0, and place them all on the sword. This way it does not lose stats when the shield is not equipped or drawn.

[rexyhm]

It’s really annoying when you try to mine, you lost the 300 str bonus.

[DucMan111]

Bumping. With all the new updates and information about what’s to come. I really would like to see this simple fix, not forgotten. Don’t leave our tanks behind!

[Calibrumm]

still this

[StokeHead]

bump.
I still cant believe this is intended. Why would you penalize tanks for using shield and sword?

[Moshiek]

It is a really big bug, since sword provides 50% stats while being intended to give 100% when combined with a shield.
switching to off weapon makes you lose the shield attributes which is really big, because you are not losing 50% of the attributes you get from any other off weapon.
please fix before next patch, Moshiek.

[PaXuk]

This has to be a bug, ive also posted a bug report on it as its not fair to split the stats between the items and only give sword and shield users half of them when not equipt but give every otehr weapon full stats.

[DucMan111]

I specifically found a Dev post stating this is a bug.

I got so excited, I took a screenshot and forgot to save the link. I believe it was here: Known Issues - New World

There is just simply no other way, as a sword and shield user, I am unable to fine-tune my build, reach specific attribute bonuses, then to swap to an off-hand weapon, and lose those exact same breakpoints. When no other weapon combos have this penalty.

(Edit)
Found it: Located in the [Megathread] Weekly Update 1.0.5 Bug Megathread under “Existing Bugs:”

[hleV]

Bumping.

I’m glad it’s been recognized as a bug, but we’re still waiting on a fix.
It really sucks that your shield attributes don’t apply while the 2nd weapon is out, making you worse than if you had a different weapon with the right attributes on your back.