In it for the Long Haul

[Galen_Thalheimer]

+1 what click said.

The more quests we get in which we need to kill enemies, the less people will want to shield all the time. They would never be able to complete a single quest. There should be quests in which we don't necessarily need to kill X amount of X enemy, but in which you have to e.g. take 5K damage with your shield. I'm guessing these would be an incredibly hard couple of lines of code though, so I don't expect seeing this in any of the upcoming patches..

Maybe in Mount & Blade II?...

I agree with shielders not getting kills for quests, but for these low level quests, that really isn't a problem, as no should really need to be shielding for these bots. The harder bot quests, yes.