Sword and Shield bugs

[Leonas]

• What is your character name in New World:
  Kaal Firebrand

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

• Describe the issue you are experiencing:

1. Shield attributes only apply when Sword is the active weapon. Since attributes are split between Sword and Shield and together sums up to as much as other weapons this can’t be intended behavior.
2. Shield defensive stats do not apply. No increase in Physical/Elemental resistance when equipping a shield.
3. In the game Shield is considered a weapon and it’s a weapon pair with Sword, so it shouldn’t apply weight towards equip load like other equipped weapons. Because it does and shield has no defensive attributes that work you’re losing a lot of defensive stats if you go light/medium as you can’t mix and match medium/heavy armor pieces.

• Is this a bug or an exploit:
  Several bugs.

• (if a bug) How did the issue effect your gameplay:
  Significantly lower attributes and defensive stats.

• (if a bug) Were you able to recover from the issue:
  By not playing sword and shield, yes. Otherwise, no.

• (if a bug) Please include a screenshot or video of the issue that you have experienced:
  No.

• What are the steps to reproduce the issue as you experienced:

1. Check character stats.
2. Equip shield and make sure the active weapon is Sword.
3. Check stats again.
4. Change active weapon to any other weapon.
5. Check stats again.

[Leonas]

Then it was bugged from the start. I can’t possibly imagine a reason why Sword and Shield users should have much lower stats than other weapon user.

[Leonas]

Why wouldn’t Sword be designed for dps? Its entire Swordmaster skill tree is focused on dealing damage. You make no sense.

[Leonas]

I can see you didn’t even play Sword and Shield and only keep spouting nonsense. Sword dps is great when built for it. It has 30% empower for 5s on heavy attacks with no hit restriction or cooldown which is HUGE, another perk with up to 15% empower from blocking, +10% crit rate, slows on light attacks, +10% damage on slowed targets, +10% damage aura. Moreover, it’s the only weapon with 3 damage types: light attacks of slash type, heavy attack of thrust type and shield skills of strike type. It’s a dps powerhouse.

But like I said it’s bugged and loses a lot of stats. Also, when you activate one weapon the other doesn’t suddenly takes its attributes back, so why should shield?