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I've been debating on whether or not to use a shield and along the way, a few questions have arisen. (That's at least how it started) 

1. Do shields do anything without enhancements? 

2. Without Block or enhancements, is a shield essentially useless? 

3. Can you swap/remove equipment during combat? If you can, will doing so take up a turn? 

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Before you choose I'll just say that max shield skill gives you 50 extra mitigation on top of whatever your armor has. Two handed weapon users therefore cannot get the max mitigation but tend to be better at AoE than one handed weapon users.

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8 hours ago, Ethereal said:

Two handed weapon users therefore cannot get the max mitigation

Two pieces of armor?
You will also need to invest 50 SP into Block to get that Mitigation.

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3 hours ago, Macradon said:

Two pieces of armor?
You will also need to invest 50 SP into Block to get that Mitigation.

That's gotta be a chance since I left ~ year ago. Used to be that caps were character wide, not item wide. So even if you had 2 pieces of armor, you couldn't have more than +3 MIT on your character.

But then, block and parry have now also changed. If you get both, you basically don't take any damage :P

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Those are actually Skill Mods or Modifications.  They're used in tandem to a certain skill.  For example, Athletics is a mod for both of the armor skills.

Unfortunately, certain mods are only unlocked when the appropriate rank is reached in that skill.  Example again: Athletics is a rank 3 Mod which requires Armor rank 3. (It doesn't matter which type of armor, as they both have the Athletics mod.)

You'll also need to spend SP to obtain them.

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