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Favorite Shield Inscription?

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iridescentfyre
iridescentfyre
Desert Nomad
• #1
I got a new shield recently and I'm trying to decide what inscription to put on it. I realize that ideally, I should have shields for several situations, but I have neither the money nor the inventory space to have 3-5 different shields. Instead I'm trying to decide which would be the most useful as often as possible: +10 AL vs. Piercing, +10 AL vs Slashing, or +10 AL vs Fire.

This would be primarily for PvE, but I also do lots of Alliance Battles and occasionally other sorts of PvP as well and would rather not have to switch shields much.

Any opinions? Thanks.
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Banned
• #2
Probably Slashing.
Racthoh
Racthoh
Did I hear 7 heroes?
• #3
Slashing or fire. Personally my warrior still uses his -2 in stance from before that was changed because I'm too lazy. I don't think it's something to worry about too heavily.

I'd probably consider one of the reduce conditions mods (blind or cripple) simply because the extra defense isn't that big a deal to a warrior.
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kumarshah
Krytan Explorer
• #4
From those three I would go for Slashing.

It would be awesome if ANet introduced a +10 vs elemental inscription.
Poison Ivy
Poison Ivy
Forge Runner
• #5
Quote: Originally Posted by kumarshah
From those three I would go for Slashing.

It would be awesome if ANet introduced a +10 vs elemental inscription. Then they would need to add a +10 vs Physical as a counterpart...like the Shelter/Warding mods.
DarkGanni
DarkGanni
Forge Runner
• #6
Personally I'd go for +10vs fire just because I think you have enough armor against physical damage.

- Ganni
iridescentfyre
iridescentfyre
Desert Nomad
• #7
Quote: Originally Posted by kumarshah
From those three I would go for Slashing.

It would be awesome if ANet introduced a +10 vs elemental inscription. I could definitely see them doing that, but I doubt it would be +10. To avoid making +10 vs. specific elements irrelevant I'm sure they'd make it +5 or +6 or something like that, sadly.

Thanks for the replies, everyone. I think I'll probably go with the vs. Fire inscription. Elements are pretty nasty to warriors and fire seems most common in both pve and pvp in my experience. I think I'll save the vs. Slashing one for my Paragon, since they lack the +20 Physical on their armor.
Cathode_Reborn
Cathode_Reborn
Desert Nomad
• #8
Quote: Originally Posted by iridescentfyre
Instead I'm trying to decide which would be the most useful as often as possible: +10 AL vs. Piercing, +10 AL vs Slashing, or +10 AL vs Fire. Fire is everywhere. I have a shield with 10+AL vs. fire myself because it's so common. Fire and Air ele's can do lots of damage to a warrior.

Piercing would probably be the worst since Rangers and Sins do alot of armor-ignoring damage.
Tingi
Tingi
Wilds Pathfinder
• #9
All 3 are pretty good tbh. I would PROBABLY choose Piercing out of the 3 but tbh I'm not sure.

My fave is Reduced Blind. That + rune of clarity = bye bye blind bots!