I say why not. Make it like diablo 2 but worse when you do so.

On diablo 2 if you equip two two handed swords on a barb it lowers the damage to one handed damage for them.

But instead make a slight nerf so that you get a benefit of offensive power but perhaps allow parrying or use of both shields as a "block" / "defense"

I was thinking just that before I went to the 3rd page. Like exactly. High5

Basically, make it so if you have dual shields equipped then make each shield only give 75% of its defense/damage (if you add the attacks) toward the players total. This would require them to need both shields perfect for full effect rather than just one +12 and another clean so they can abuse the stat bonus. And also would only produce 150% rather than doubling their defense keeping it from being too overpowered.

Plus, due to the low maneuverability from 2 shields equipped, maybe a -speed could be added.

Next: Dual Daggers for Thiefs and Dual Swords for Barbarians. (Class specific prostuff anyone?)

That would be cool if GK wasn't as stat-centric, but the way it is now, it would completely break the game beyond repair.

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All it takes is heavy balancing to fix it.

You don't know just how lop-sided GK is. It'll take heavy balancing then a reset.

What's stopping them from doing this other than development?

The silly belief that GK can be fixed without a reset held by people who spent money on their items

GK can be fixed without a reset. The belief that a reset would fix alot of problems is silly. I wouldn't be against a reset if GK could actually handle one, but it cannot. Right now there's not enough content to support a reset, if it were I'd probably be in favor of one or a partial one (specific skills/stats).

An easy way do it would be to add some kind of spin / bash animations and then just make attacks do damage based on AC. Similarly, you could have a guard action instead that makes the player have x2 AC while they continue to block, but they can't attack or heal.

Interesting concept, but I don't know if either would work well. Dual shield is a weird idea. Neat, but weird.

Confused.

Explain your terms for the non GK peoples :(

I want to be able to dual wear my shoes, makes me move faster but I'm unable to manipulate anything with my hands.

Are you proposing there should be the capability to equip shoes on the hand slot?

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/brilliant.jpg

Equipping gloves over shoes could be better.

Spongebob beat us all to this.