Legionnaire Shielding Skill

[Suns]

[quote author=Suns link=topic=28630.msg186379#msg186379 date=1404840251]
Legionnaires are versatile, as Sosruko said. Best keep them that way. Just because you shielded in 9 out of 10 Hard runs, doesn't mean your class is just fit for that role, and needs a buff. Royal Guards shield, Zweihanders slash, and the Legionnaires fit into every role where it needs patching.

You want to try to talk about it?  Try playing it for a while. Same goes for the rest of you guys posting here.  Anyway  yesterday i was on normal mod and we got zweihanders.  I could not kill any with the Excalibur before they killed me, so try and say that it would be useful on hard or rag after that.
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Ok, so your going to start an uneeded argument, with someone that goes against your opinion? Thats nice. People are allowed to have opinions, this isn't a communistic dictatorship. The whole point of the "Feature Requests" thread, is to request for new features. Opinions further benefit the situation, after debate with the NI community, the devs might take it into consideration if the idea fits well.

Let me elaborate on my past post.

In a perfect world, Royal Guards shield, and Zweihanders slash. What do the Legionnaires do? They can do a variety of roles.
1)Plug up any holes in the shieldwall. Slashing or shielding.
2)Provide ranged fire, which other commandos cannot do as well as the Legionnaire.
3)Kill off the lucky bots that get into the cades, thus saving the team from a wipe if the medic/juggler or shielders/slashers get killed.

The Legionnaires are based upon versatility. They have access to better ranged capability than the other commandos, they also have better one-handed capability. Not only, do they fight better with one-handed weapons, they can bring in better ones. Nothing is easier, than luring and weakening bots with your good ranged/melee capability. Like skirmishers, the Legionnaire can throw 1-2 projectiles at the bots, weakening them for the killing blow with melee. The other commandos, don't have access to this skill. This is a heavy advantage given to the Legionnaires, why I believe a buff to shielding, would make this class unbalanced. Commandos are meant to do the melee work, but adding ranged capability is a good skill for a heavily armored killing machine. It may not work in certain ways in Hard and Rag, but that is how new skills/tricks are developed to fit the stats of the character. Why kiting was made for ranged with higher athletics against bots.