29-01-2012, 09:27 AM
(28-01-2012, 09:10 PM)Lethwin_Far_Seeker link Wrote:[quote author=brave_chicken link=topic=1143.msg9716#msg9716 date=1327782132]
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.
I strongly support teamwork but the ultimatum of support item or nothing is absurd. I'm not being weird for wanting a fourth weapon slot. That slot has been around since the original M&B was created (I was in beta). Searching the battlefield for a suitable weapon is a poor substitute compared to the recommended improvement.
While it is not relevant, your second paragraph makes me wonder, why players would spend the experience points for a support class when they can buy the items from the auction hall?
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Deployable shields have been around for longer than the support classes. They have never required a support class to use. It's the medic boxes/ammo crates (which are disabled at the moment) that require support class to use.
Since original mount and blade, huh? It doesn't really matter...this is a mod. There have been mods without any customizable equipment, one slot is not a bug deal. Hell, you can get huscarl shields off the 3rd boss wave if it's that big a deal. You can't get better than that, except in hard mode where you find champion huscarl round shields. Your request is not absurd but neither is their implementation of the support slot. Archers are too lazy to fill up that slot with arrows by shooting one then dropping quiver and refilling etc, but with that slot open archers would never consider support. They would just spawn with arrows. And people like yourself would continue with the luxury of 3 weapons and a shield, when they really only need 1-2, possibly a shield.