The Maelstrom's Shield - is it lackluster?

Gelassenheit · November 2015

Well, here it is:

I'm really disappointed in this item. It doesn't really seem like it's too worth while - certainly not on the same level as the Maelstrom weapons.

What is everyone else's thoughts on this thing?

Personofsecrets · November 2015

It is.

@ZOS_RichLambert . The Maelstrom sword and shield would both have been made better if the sword was also granted set piece status.

That being said, permafrost isn't super excited and glory seems downright bad.

Orchish · November 2015

Yep, like most of the tank sets to be honest.

Ezareth · November 2015

Yeah it's garbage. We reported this in PTS and they added it to the Glorious defender set. It needs something like bonus health or bonus weapon damage like the other pieces.

Personofsecrets · November 2015

@ZOS_RichLambert , maybe you should let players enchant shields with jewelry enchantments.

There is precedence for that in looking at the "Shield of the man-bull" which had a unique enchant, but had it's enchantment removed despite patch notes clearly stating that the enchantment of all already obtained shields would not be removed. We also have the "shield of endurance" from finishing the ICP dungeon which has a health regeneration enchantment.

Being able to enchant shields with a jewelry enchantment would also be cool and pragmatic. Often the base stats don't matter a whole lot on the shield and only have a marginal benefit. Jewelry enchants would give players something new to consider that could go toward helping resource managment.

Faunter · November 2015

This is the first time they've added a Master Shield. It would've been better if they'd made it do something interesting with Bashing instead of making it part of a set with a regular enchantment, but meh...

eliisra · November 2015

Total joke. In reality, that's just a normal shield with a tri-stat enchant on it

But yay it has a fancy name.

How can they expect anyone to use that?

Gelassenheit · November 2015

My main problem with it, is that it's nothing special. It's an enchantment that you can already get, on a set piece that is pretty much garbage. Like other Maelstrom weapons, it should have a unique enchantment and not be part of a set.

Something like Low Slash (2nd skill in S&B) does more maim, or a heal, or costs less stamina, in addition to some base + health amount. Just like other Masters / Maelstrom weapons have - a buff to the second skill in the respective skill line, and some base + weapon damage / spell damage.

Baconfat79 · November 2015

It's still better than the Maelstrom destro staves though. What garbage they are...ugh. Also, why are the Maelstrom 2H weapons so ridiculously OP, when most of the other Maelstrom stuff is kinda underwhelming?

gibous · November 2015

Why would they have one maelstrom piece completely deviate from the structure of the maelstrom line of items? This is a mis-labeled Shield of Glory.

It should have two unique qualities attached to it like all the maelstrom weapons.