They really just need to put out another real S&S weapon combo that's actually competitive with the end game quality of melee's out there.Īn overall rework is needed. A&B isn't much better as it lacks range, lacks a whole lot of damage, and the stances can just be annoying to get in the first place. Of the two, S&A is really kind of tanked in stats as you're boxed in to using fire damage and can't use more than two mods to actually raise the base damage enough to be useful. The other big thing that is a front and center issue with the weapon type is that their is all of two of them. Something really needs to be done about the mechanics of both before something real can be done with them. That is a huge problem not only with the S&S combo, but also with stances as well. As it stands currently, you have to be fully using only the melee to even make use of the shield for the most part. Maybe in the case of S&A if the shield part actually was able to be deployed in a similar way to Volt's shield and you could actually use it as cover, THEN that might be useful. The shield doesn't offer anything currently. Evasion really kind of kicks the blocking part between the legs and especially so since parkor 2.0 hit. The reason is pretty simple and kind of sad. If anyone reads this and has more Ideas, please share! I would love to hear them and I'm sure DE would too!Įven if that was the case, I still wouldn't use it. Every Sword and shield should vary in the amount of damage absorption capacity, but it should make up for it in another category (ie. If the user continues to block and the user not being attacked, the counter refills at a slower pace. If the user stops blocking the counter begins to refill.

(Either this or breaks the user's block entirely) If the shield is still being held and you run out of stamina, it reverts to damage mitigation.

Similar to stamina, this counter refills over a certain amount of time. I believe the sword and shield should remove all damage for a certain amount of damage, filling a counter until the cap damage is reached. Once the weapon(s) came out, unfortunately, there was only damage mitigation like every other weapon. When I first heard that a sword and shield was coming to Warframe, I immediately thought of using the shield for protection. Why? I feel as though it is the mechanics, of the weapon that could turn a players eye to using it more often. The sword and shield weapon category could be a very useful and practical weapon choice for the tenno.

Warframe sword and shield mods