Chacal wrote:Oh, one thing, can someone clarify the thing about bushido + shield to me? I see some ppl holding shields and they seem to be sampires, but I thought shields was a bad ideia for samps. Is there any scenario that a shield is viable despite the disadvantages or probably those shield guys don't use bushido?
Bushido with a shield gives you 0 parry chance.
What you have to understand is that hit/defence chance and parry chance work separately.
First, your weapon skill and HCI will face off against your opponent's weapon skill and HCI (or anatomy + wres), determining if the swing hits or misses. Here if there is a hit lower attack or defense it means -25% to that stat for the affected party.
After that, if the swing was a hit, enters parry chance.
But parry chance is 0 if your parrying skill is 0, regardless of weapons and shields used. Having no dex virtually diminishes your parry chances but not to 0. It's just a pen. With 10 dex and 20 Parry I can have 1% parry chance. With 125 dex and 0 parry I get 0 parry chance.
So my guess would be that these guys are not running parry (wich is kinda weird for a sampire) and are using the shield for the bonus stats that wearing an aditional slot gives.
If you have max weapon skill and HCI, and overcome or are not affected by HLD, and your opponent is the same defensively, there will be 50% of hitting and missing, so the defensive capabilities are not trash, but certainly not for a sampire. My last guess would be that these "sampires" are actually pvp characters. They drop parry for alchemy, for the bonus to potions, or something similar.