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Should you be allowed to land Critical Hits on Shields?
Vynist
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Currently, when someone has a shield up, the shield cannot be hit critically. Is this a bug or a featureTM?
Edited by Vynist on July 31, 2015 8:09PM Should you be allowed to land Critical Hits on Shields? 32 votes
Yes, Critical Hits should be allowed on shields.
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No, Critical Hits should NOT be allowed on shields.
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Vynist✭✭✭Yes, Critical Hits should be allowed on shields.Why or why not, please lol. It would be best if you explained your answer.0
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Thymos✭✭✭✭✭Yes, Critical Hits should be allowed on shields.I would say yes. The definition of a critical hit can include that you managed to smack a weak part of the shield and blew right through it.The Older Gamers Recruitment Thread
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olsborg✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭No, Critical Hits should NOT be allowed on shields.Because shields have no mitigation. End of discussion.
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Haqikah✭✭✭In the ESO Live stream of today they said this is a bug which is gonna be fixed. So after the next update of PTS shields can be critically hit. This fix is part of the imperial city update.0
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✭Yes, Critical Hits should be allowed on shields.If I have 5 shields stacked will it crit on one of my shields or all 5 ?0 -
ThyIronFist✭✭✭✭✭Yes, Critical Hits should be allowed on shields.On the PTS it's a nightmare to burn through a diehard shield stacker cause of the damage reduction, especially playing as a magicka build you just can't dps down a shield, and if you manage to get through something it's instantly restacked back to full strength. Just by shield stacking you can almost completely negate crit builds.
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✭✭No, Critical Hits should NOT be allowed on shields.No because the people who complain about shields are the same people who spam Wrecking Blow / Critical Surge.1 -
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✭✭Yes, Critical Hits should be allowed on shields.Now all they gotta do is stop stacking and WB spamming
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CaptainObvious✭✭✭✭So a critical hit is where you strike a weak point on your opponent. It is a hit they are not prepared for/bracing against/have armor in place to deflect or mitigate.
The criticalness of critical hits is why everyone was using diamonds on their armor. They changed diamonds to cause variability of people's armor layout, but put in the flaw of having shield abilities have the exact same "flaw" impenetrable had.
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✭✭✭✭✭No, Critical Hits should NOT be allowed on shields.Like this guy said, this is the real issue, no the singular shields themself.cazlonb16_ESO wrote: »
The real issue is and always has been shield stacking. So why on earth will they not simply remove stacking and then adjust the various shields as necessary ?
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Fix shieldstacking.
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