Give it some actual combos, make heavy 1 chain into a light strikedown for example (look at arbites shield for inspiration) and replace the shield plant with the old inferior version of powermaul activation or smashing the activated maul against the shield causing crowd control explosion (kinda like the arbites shield special).
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Brute shield with light attack focus and parry special (big bonk on the head for parrying hit) would be great
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They should just copy Bardin’s hammer and shield or Kruber’s shield and mace (they’re the same) moveset
The single target combo being PA+Light is extremely fun and a satisfactory thing to hit
And the horde combo being H2+light rather than H1 H2 spam is also a lot more fun
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I would take all those ideas and an aditional slab shield + grenadier gauntles as different marks. Heck fatshark could do a shield only update and I wouldn’t be even mad.
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I don’t think slab shield is good at all. What you gain in CC and shooter protection you lose in damage and dodge protection. It basically makes the Ogryn autodeath to specialist problem worse. The Pickaxe or Powermaul playstyles are much stronger in Havoc imo.
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I only play Arbites for their shields I wish I could transplant on Ogryn. The one with 2 11 hitmass sweeps before Arbites’ excessive cleave and power boosts is so much fun to use. Then you play Ogryn and its back to 1 move.
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I haven’t played havoc in over a year so I have no idea how it performs there, I will say though that when weapons that perform well outside of havoc perform badly in havoc maybe it’s actually havoc itself that is the problem? I agree though that pickaxes and the power maul are better weapons.
I dislike the shield’s special because I consider it to be redundant.
If shield stance was something that should happen, then just push it to the block.
And have the special be something else.
Tbh I do also have a post in the draft about shields, but Slab Shield shouldn’t be the focus of such a kit.
On the other hand, Brute Shields[1]; Suppression Shields[2]; Stormshields [3] should have the shield be the "central part of the kit.
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god what I’d give for a shield with an interesting moveset
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Axe and shield was my favorite but Bretonian sword board was great too. probably too much of an all around weapon to justify using on GK, but so good in modded realm on foot knight. I have a weakness for shield bunts worked into the light moveset.
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They need to buff the light attacks on it, that’d make it worth doing combos on it, because they are completely useless currently. Buff the light damage by like 30% and make their attackspeed like 10% faster. Which put the light attack damage around the same what the arbites shockmaul + shield light attack damage is.
Also just ditch the stupid shield stance, and replace it with the power maul activation. The damn weapon itself is refered to as “slabshieldpowermaul” within the game files themselves, so the devs are 100% aware what it should be.
To make it different from the achlys power maul, give the shield maul a built in power cycler which lets you do 2-3 explosions and make each explosion do less damage than the achlys. If the current achlys power maul does like 2000 damage on single explosion, make the shield maul do like 650 dmg per explosion, which comes to around 1950 dmg with 3 explosions. And then make cooldown on the activation like 8-9 seconds long to tame the power, vs the current 6 seconds on the achlys power maul.
The shield stance is both awful and just incentivices bad habits. Aka ogryns who just plant the shield and stand there, while their allies all the work.
the spear and shield for me was the only one I could really have fun with, kinda sad we never got anything like that in DT (we also still need polearms)
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i’d love a spear and shield. or mk4 cleaver and shield and dress my ogryn like a centurion.
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Adding this to the Darktide Weapons Wishlist of mine.
- Cleaver & Brute Shield
- Cleaver & Slab Shield
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• Cleaver & Cleaver
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Already there as “Dual Cleavers” 
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slab shield actually has better dodges imo than most weapons, and thats because the defence stat affects its dodge speed
its also just an unbelievably safe weapon, it does get boring a bit, but its easily one of my favorite weapons for civi maels and just for keeping the team safe and/or clutching etc.
@AndiNagasaki if I remember correctly you were looking for this.
It’s from Dark heresy: Inquisitor’s Handbook
Had an idea that could see Slab Shield be reworked while still keeping the special be about the shield:
- Special: Power Maul activation
- Block stance → Special:
Shield Advance: Increase block cost but lower the movement speed nerf
(Idea being buffing the normal block stance to be closer to the current special, and turning the special into a melee engagement tool rather than an entrenchment one.)
While in Shield Advance: Push attacks cost lest but are strictly shield bashes
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Wasn’t there suppose to be a Shield rework years ago?