Support Class Weapon Slot

[brave_chicken]

Support weapon slot is the way it is so that people use teamwork. The devs have expressed this as their opinion many times. If you really want something in that fourth weapon slot, pick something up: you can get good 2hers on the 6th wave assuming you get zerk/brute, you can get good shields then too, and at wave 8 (skirmishers), and you can also get throwing axes then.

Also, you do not need to be support class to use deployable shields. You can get them from the auction hall for under 1000, sometimes as cheap as 300. Or craft them as armorsmith with 8 wood, 3 cloth.