After installing patch 3, all my crafted shields had their armor rating reset to 0 and every time I try to craft a Darkspawn Alpha Shield and equip it on my main character, it's gone after a save/load. No way around it, it disappears every time. Others on the forum have reported the same issue. Would appreciate a hotfix, since I can't really play my sword & shield guy with half of his weaponry missing.
@GODzillaGSPB wrote:I'm also not blaming specific people. Of course one can miss certain issues. Two can miss vertain issues. Even three or more people could make mistakes. My naive hope though is that there are more than a handfull in Biowares QA department.
Well...I too like to play DAI on the weekend, but I have a backup plan: I never actually took Iron Bull with me because he is not a real tank (and since my own character is an archer I need a tank normally). I guess I'll take him for a stroll. :D
You can actually set up 2H Tanks FYI... 🙂 I Have Blackwall and Bull specced as 2 Handed Tanks.
Interesting. Well I guess here is not the right place but could you send me a PM describing how you set them up? Thanks in advance.
@GODzillaGSPB wrote:Interesting. Well I guess here is not the right place but could you send me a PM describing how you set them up? Thanks in advance.
Sure I guess I can send you screenshots of the skill trees.
According to a Kotaku article they're planning to "hotfix" the problem. This reminds me of that one meme...
http://www.quickmeme.com/img/a5/a5fd9f50473ea78ab4a5668771803996dfaebe931facffc060a9c530337dc7e7.jpg
Oh and...another thing that would really interest me. See, in the whole trouble I totally forget to read the complete patchnotes lol. But I did today and noticed this:
So, this is probably the cause...or maybe not. But I wonder...I really wonder: When a patch is finished, wouldn't it be reasonable to check on these fixes? Go through them point for point. So in this case, one would have a look at "crafted gear".
I can still see a potential for missing it, admitedly. A shield counts as weapon and not as armor and thus can be found in the weapons sections, not in the armor section. Sounds like something that could be misses, granted.
FYI the "bar" they refer to is just the graphic below the stats with health, attack, armor and then in the second column, resistances. I noticed in the actual stats listing above, after Patch 3 my shield-equipped characters had LESS front armor than they did normal armor... by the amount of the shield's value. Some of the non-crafted shields seemed to be giving NEGATIVE armor. How anything in patch 3 could have touched this, let alone break it, I dunno, but it is probably related to that bar "fix" they applied and clearly did not test thoroughly. Because the instant i logged into the game, all my shield toons had this issue.
For crafted shields, some player testers have reported that while the shield displays 0 value, and the Armor and Armor: Front ratings are the same, the damage mitigation of a shield seems to be unaffected.
I removed and re-equipped the neg-armor shields when I saw them, and that seems to have cleared the display, so I dunno if they were really giving neg armor or not.
I am not sure why crafted and non-crafted shields values would be calculated differently or send their values to the stats page differently, but there's a lot about this game's coding I wonder about.
@GODzillaGSPB wrote:I'm also not blaming specific people. Of course one can miss certain issues. Two can miss vertain issues. Even three or more people could make mistakes. My naive hope though is that there are more than a handfull in Biowares QA department.
Well...I too like to play DAI on the weekend, but I have a backup plan: I never actually took Iron Bull with me because he is not a real tank (and since my own character is an archer I need a tank normally). I guess I'll take him for a stroll. :D
heh, Iron Bull gives you wings. He is one hell of a tank with the right skill point investment into the tank tree and his specialty trees. Along with the right masterwork on his armor and weapon. I have gain 3 guard on hit for his crafted weapon and heal 20% of damage taken over 10s on his crafted armor. Along with some of his specialty skills deep into the tree and the guard from the tanking tree and taunts he is one hell of a beast. but that's more late game though, as you're pushing level 20 on him. so it's good that you bring him out later. he gets the job done early, but you need to use potions on him and revive him once in a while until he has enough skill points and the right balance of abilities to survive fights without taking much direct damage. He is one hell of a beast though mid to late game. I stopped using cassandra for him in the early teens lol. so this patch hasn't worried me too much with the hsield issue, i don't think I'll need cassandra to tank much since the dragons seem to peck at the archer or myself or whomever they please anyways.
I can confirm that it is fixed. Thanks Bioware. It's not really a hot fix, but a fix nonetheless. :D
