Opinions on this shield
 

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Sean made this shield and was curious about what you all thought of it.

Put me on back-order for one of those!

Just post the image of the shield, your photo is tiny. Looks nice from what I can see though.

I personally will take 2 please :)

lol please give me your opinions!

should be featured in the next update :)

I like it, only thing I can think of to maybe improve it is to work on the shininess of the gem a bit. I'm not usually a fan of black, except in the case of outlines, seems to work but it might look better without.

That shield can't be sturdy if it has a gem going through in the middle.

Certainly much sturdier than the gingerbread and easter basket shields, I would imagine. :D


I really like it, but I worry that it bears a little too much resemblance to a Wing Shield. In fact, at first glance that's what I thought it was.

If you're wanting to make a shield featuring a crystal, why not make it entirely crystalline instead? You've already got a good shape for doing so. You'd just need to recolor the white portions to a similar color. I've attached an example of what I mean below.

wow beautiful.

I actually made this to be an edit of the Angel Shield. However, I made it with the ASoD in mind. it's white n blue instead of black n red. I also made it more linear compared to ASoD's ruggedness.

With that recolor it can be an entirely different shield though.

so easter item? lol :D

I really like the recolored shield. I agree with sean it makes it look like an entirely different shield. Maybe a new easter shield item could be added. Who knows ;)

NO it's for me only! haha jk i wish it could be used as the new Angel Shield gfx. But I definitely wouldn't mind if it was a new shield. Perhaps blue/red/green/purple/rainbow colors? hehe

Truth finally comes out! We all knew you could do it :P

nou

Just because I'm bored, I decided to animate it as well. Just to make it more interesting.

Flashes a bit quick, but it's nice. Perhaps a more subtle glowing effect would make it better than flashing. (slowed down and passes through another frame or two of color)

I liked the original because I like things white and clean, but both could make nice shields.

I'll keep playing around with the animation 'til it looks nice. Here's another that's much more subtle.

I've also changed which parts of the shield change color just to see what it looks like.

Yeah that's a sexy glow, I think it would be nicer on the other part though, that looks like it's the gem shards part and stuff.

Here's what both animations look like linked together.

First the blue portions get brighter, then they fade down and the purple parts do the same. Should I stick with this or go back to a more flicker-y animation?

Whoa too pro for me i'll let you handle that. But damn it's very nice looking.

Personally I feel it's a little over the top for something so small.

needs more contrast imo if ur going for a crystal look

I say just slow down the first image you posted and retain those same colors. Wish i knew how to do those effects.

Honestly, and in my opinion, I feel the first one was better because it seemed like the brace holding the jewel was not glowing which seems real to me.

Then I loved the second one because it slowly changed... either different colors or the same variety of colors would be nice... I think if both were combined you have a great shield.

The shape it self, which I don't think you are concerned about opinions on, I can't say I like very much... Definitely love the idea! Great transitioning as well!!

Here is a recolor that I really like.

http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/...talshield1.png

What are your thoughts?

what would be the name and stats?

If it ever were to be added, I'd like to see poison resist and pow. would be nice with some speed too so we can give them mages nicer items.

Gift of Nature?

I like that name good choice.

Yeah i like that too. Crystalline Shield? or something of that sort?

Here's another, just for kicks.

I'd like to see this as a shield for casters as well. But I think we should push harder to get the penalties of poison reduced instead of just putting resist poison on a totally rockin' shield. These would be my suggestions, for both names and statistics:

Names

Prismatic Protector
Shimmering Shard
Crystal Crest
Aura Aegis
Radiant Reflector

Statistics

(Pow +1) (Magic +5) (Sustenance +15) (Resist Magic +35)
(Pow +2) (Magic +3) (Sustenance +10) (Resist Magic +25)
(Pow +3) (Magic +1) (Sustenance +5) (Resist Magic +15)

(AC +1) (Pow +1) (Magic +5) (Sustenance +15)
(AC +1) (Pow +2) (Magic +3) (Sustenance +10)
(AC +1) (Pow +3) (Magic +1) (Sustenance +5)

(AC +1) (Pow +1) (HP +10) (Speed +3)
(AC +1) (Pow +2) (HP +25) (Speed +2)
(AC +1) (Pow +3) (HP +50) (Speed +1)

whoa that looks craaazy.

Yeah i would definitely support the nerf of poison.

I like the stats that I am seeing and would love to see it in game. Love the names. Mages need love to!
Pow+3 Speed+3!!!!

These would be nice to see added. Maybe we could start a new series of shields like the winter frost shields. If we could get 6 new recolored ****s with names and the stats to go with each.

I love greens... works very well with black even without being a gif..
8D Fits the design.. that or the colors make me not care about it, I'm not sure.. If I didn't dress like a noob, I would totally wear it.

Until something better came along lol..

poison cant be fixed

n those stats are retardedly op

and mages are retardedly under powered...

I really don't care about the actual numbers written down in that list. I'd just like to see stats being used which are actually relevant to spell casting.


Sustenance is a stat casters need even more than melee characters, because they use up more food trying to regenerate points for health, spell points, and grace. Yet it's on almost nothing that would actually be beneficial for a caster.

Constitution, Health, and Speed are also mostly given to melee-based equipment pieces when all three stats are useful to casters just as well. Casters may not need quite as much speed, but they could definitely use a bigger health pool on average.

And of course, Power and Magic will always be useful. :p

isnt +magic capped at +3?

Yeah, I think so.

Again, those stats are examples that I kind of lazily scaled. I don't expect them to be used. So don't have an aneurism over it.