I agree with you

I agree there has to be a better solution. I dusted off my dk tank last week to update gear and it's way too noticable on SnB bar. My dw stamsorc is doing ok, but I like the idea of full strength main hand and suppressed off hand.

HappyLittleTree wrote: »

full strenght on hand but no enchantment on shield maybe?

Eh... The reason they changed what they did was to equalize dps... I'd hate for my tank to lose that extra tri-stat on shield...

You're def going on the right path for solution. I would be down for the main hand having the full enchant power and the off hand with a weaker power enchant. This way, sword and board crusher enchant wont be messed up

Passive on 1h&s that give enchant full power when using 1hs.

HappyLittleTree wrote: »

full strenght on hand but no enchantment on shield maybe?

Or have a shield glyph that boosts the power of main hand enchant.

This would allow snb to still be able to run a 1h weapon enchant and the max stats of the shield, or they could sacrifice the max stats on the shield to get a full strength weapon enchant.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/466164/new-shield-enchant-the-solution-to-1h-enchant-changes#latest

Im still mostly new, but wouldn't the problem with this be that you could no longer mix them?
Most builds i see have different enchants on one versus the other, if you disable one, you eliminate that option.
Maybe the better solution is to buff it on 2H options or give them 2 enchant options?
Just one noobs opinion.

twing1_ wrote: »

Vapirko wrote: »

HappyLittleTree wrote: »

full strenght on hand but no enchantment on shield maybe?

No need for that. Shields use a stat enchant anyway and they were in no way OP prior to the nerf.

True, snb used to have a full strength weapon enchant in addition to the shield max stat enchant.

But then they changed that.

This leads me to believe ZOS does not want any single weapon bar having more than one full strength weapon enchant, be it in the form of two weapon enchants like dw, or one full strength weapon enchant and max stats like snb.

Adding a shield glyph that boosts the power of the main hand enchant would still limit snb to no more than one full strength enchant by sacrificing the max stats on the shield, while also giving them the option to keep the max stats on the shield by using a half strength 1h enchant.

Well certainly that was their intention, but it wasn’t a well implemented fix for the issue of DW being the dominant DPS weapon type I suppose. More likely just people complaining about it led ZOS to make some change, any change. The nerf was inspired by DW but hit PvE tanks unecessarily hard and there was never any issue with SB in PvP so it seems like it was more of a bandaid fix and they just said whatever this is the quickest way.

Cundu_Ertur wrote: »

I think the way this should have been handled is that 2h weapons should have gotten an extra enchantment and trait slot, and the 1h weapons and shield should have been left alone. That way the cost for enchantments would not have been affected, and for a double strength enchantment you would have needed two glyphs, the same as for 1h.

From what I understand though, enchants were never the issue. The enchant change hasn't really dont anything to even the gap between DW and 2H DPS in PvE and it certainly hasn't done anything in PvP since DPS wasn't the issue. Now you just have a situation where you're way better off using poisons on DW in most cases and you've lost the build diversity that having the option of two full strength enchants offered. DW users use twice as many mats and tempers and you have to pay full price for two enchants that are then halved in strength. And to reiterate, the change did nothing except to make DW less interesting. So I say the change gets reverted and ZOS actually tackles the real issue, or we switch to the boring option of one full strength enchant on the main hand and the number of tempers for 1H weapons goes down.