This thread is debunked XD
Skinner has the same stats as light armor. It’s even listed as light in the marketplace.
Also, count how many defensive stats you’re losing by not being able to equip medium head+gloves/shoes or medium chest.
Debunked my ass. Read my reply.
It’s debunked my guy 
sorry but it’s a style that isn’t hard to use, being sword and shield doesn’t HARDLOCK you to anything lol
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You can’t state it “Hardlocks” you into heavy equip load when it simply doesn’t at all… You just have to sacrifice the armor/resistances for the best evasive dodge and a damage bonus.
You can remain in light weight if all of your pieces are light and the shield is a blucker (the small round shield).
All you showed is that you can’t read. Please read my post again instead of making up shit on your own.
I did mention that with just round shield equipped you’re losing stats because you can’t equip medium pieces to stay in low load. And I did say you can’t even reach light load with kite/tower. Never did I mention you can’t reach light with round.
Exactly what I run with right now lol
I’m sword/shield, Round shield, and light armor. 13.0 equip weight.
And your still being gimped on stats
You said people are “locked”. That’s absolutely untrue. Whether they’re incentivized or not is another story.
I’ll also go ahead and say that this is just another one of the millions of issues that came into being because of the completely unnecessary and for the worse overhaul of the combat system. Before New World decided to transform its original, realistic and interesting combat system into a clone of any ordinary, generic MMO, every piece of equipment had a purpose. The kite shield was the shield of choice for heavier than light encumbrance choices. Nowadays the buckler and kite shield are seen as lower tier shields than the tower shield which itself is a weird and exaggerated looking shield if you ask me.
exactly… so how dOeS iT HarDloCk YoU tO hEaVy LoAd!!!
Do you need me to spell that? BECAUSE YOU’RE LOSING DEFENSIVE STATS BY NOT BEING ABLE TO MIX AND MATCH LIGHT AND MEDIUM PIECES.
Title needs changed then… cause it’s not hardlocking anyone to anything.
It is hardlocking because you’re losing stats every time you’re not wearing full heavy. If that’s not hardlocking then idk what is.
There is simply no “Lock” lol you can be light, medium, or heavy with sword and shield…
I agree about the armor. The shield has multiple things about it that seem not well thought out but you mention how it’s half the points. Correct me if I’m wrong but I think you might be mistaken on how the stats work exactly.
“ And before ppl say “you’re not losing stats but gaining them!” I’ll say bruh, sword has half the stats any other weapon has. The other half is on shield. Go figure.”
Just examples of what rolls could be that would be same tier and lvl
Shield +8 str/con, sword+8 str/con
Hatchet +10 str +5 con or +16str
Basically you need the shield to get the full amount you would get on any other weapon. I’m not saying it’s not dumb because it is but if they didn’t do that you would have double the amount of +whatever then other classes. So they just cut what normal weapons would give you in half and made it be one together.
The shield needs a rework though and hatchet should be able to use one as well as it has a perk that works well for clerics.
My suggestion would be take all the stats off shield give it a hard limit of defense depending on what shield let/Med/Hvy and assigned weight tier replace the swords shield tree with a “shieldless” tree and make the shield its own 2 trees depending if you heal or tank.
I’m aware how the stats work. All the devs need to do to fix the first issue is just moving attribute points fully to sword. Sword all stats, shield none. Ez pz.
That probably wouldn’t fix the 2nd problem entirely but would let people play sword entirely without shield without losing quite a lot of stats (15 at 600 GS).
But to fix the problem entirely they need to either treat shield fully as a weapon (weapon weight doesn’t count towards equip load) or give them defensive stats you’d otherwise lose by wearing lighter armor pieces.
Isnt that what I just said?
I’ve been saying this for a long time now : )
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