Why is sword the only weapon that is hurt for using another

[nomadweller]

With the sword having half it’s stats in the shield its super annoying that it’s the only weapon that when you switch to another weapon your character loses attribute points. Like if I want to sit exactly at 300 cons I have to put like 312 into cons otherwise when i switch to hammer my 300 turns to 288 because I don’t get benefits from the shield. This is honestly one of two most frustrating things of being a sword main, and really should work like all other weapons

[Bluedemonde]

Yep, I made a post saying how the shield is the only “weapon” that contributes “weight” for no reason whatsoever and if it’s removed to counter that, the sword loses half its skill possibilities.

Shield is the only weapon that counts toward weight

Why does the shield count towards weight but no other weapon does? The shield having “weight” makes no sense whilst also having Great axe and Hammer still being considered “light gear”, makes no sense. The shield does not contribute to armor rating so it is really just a weapon, not even equipped ammo counts towards weight. This is an oversight and needs to change or reworked, at the very least addressed. On a side note, why is the musket hit scan? While the bow has a very slow projectile tr…

[Tornicade]

The sword does not have half it’s stats on the shield. The shield is it’s own. Piece of equipment.

Sword masters don’t even need a shield equipped it does fine DPS on its own.

[dezet]

This is not correct.
Someone using a sword without a shield only has 3/4 of the available stats he should have.
(there are shields with +crit chance, or other DPS effects)

Putting it the other way round.
Any weapon combination, where sword + shield is the swap weapon option only has 3/4 of the stats, because the shield only counts when equipped together with the sword WHILE still counting towards the armor weight class.