Hello
In this thread I would suggest that Kerillian get a new weapon - an Elven Axe & Shield.
Well, I’m not here to discuss Kerillian’s Elven Axe, and say how boring and lazy this weapon is comparing to her other options, and how it’s rarely used by anyone on Legend and Cata. I’m pretty sure this has been discussed dozens of times already.
I’m just here to say that Elven Axe + Shield combo would expand Kerillian’s melee options with minimal effort put into it, and here is why and how:
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Fun moveset with effective moves in most situations. For horde clearing, Right to Left swing / Left to Right swing / Overhead light combo (better arc but lower range/cleave than Spear and Shield), similar to Bardin’s Axe and Shield. For anti-armored enemies, Kruber’s Mace and Shield anti-armored overhead push attack which only hits single target but does good headshot damage.
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This could be a good Spear and Shield replacement for Handmaiden tank builds oriented on blocking, as for now, one of the best shield users is the game only has single shield and weapon option and it gets boring really fast. Adding mere one more shield and weapon combo would diverse Kerillian’s armory by a lot, in particular, Handmaiden’s choice of shields.
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The amount of work required from the developer team. We already have a Spear and Shield, as well as singular Axe - combining the existing Shield and Axe into one weapon would not require much resources. There are precedents - Kruber and Bardin each have two melee weapon options combined with a shield (Sword+Shield and Mace+Shield, and Axe+Shield and Hammer+Shield respectively).
This could be a good idea for future DLC weapon, or even Elven Axe replacement in Return to Ubersreik DLC (with singular Axe being added to base game instead).
Now sorry for any semantic errors as Eng isn’t my 1st language, but I tried to be as detailed as possible in what I’m tryin to say. If you like the idea, please support this thread so the dev team could see it.
