The issue with the effect from the bracers going off breaking paralyze is something that is being addressed in the Pub 80 bug sprint. There are no plans to allow equipping a shield at this time.
Fix for the bracers would be to turn them into Lightning instead of fireball. As far as the shield goes what is the reason behind not allowing the hit spell to go off... Most people that play with wrestling have parry for their templates, and if your not using parry with wrestle its better off to drop wrestling all togeather and just use a -15 Mage Weapon.
People are already used to fireball breaking para/nerve spells/specs it's nothing new, but it would (I guess) make the bracers a bit more useful.
Well as far as knock back, they did add Reactive Paralize which is similiar ? hehe. Like you said its going in the right direction its just a few steps to complete it to make it useful!
Yes you can wear a spell book with it but as i was saying i honestly dont know that many people that have wrestlers that use spell books because of they are disarmable, and most good spell books have fc/fcr or sdi etc... so soon as its kept disarmed your casting or damage goes to hell... Im not saying people dont use book but not the favorite choice.
So they were intended to be garbage no one uses?
You have got to know that if they put in a shield like this it would not have spell channeling on it!
What mage do you know that runs around with a spellbook?
The thing i did was lower SR 5 to SR 1 then i had enough room for LMC 8% and either 4 stamina or mana.
1) I agree that shields breaking the hit fireball is silly. It eliminates half the templates.
I agree that wrestle mages with spell books is viable. My reference to mages holding spellbooks was a little tongue in check to quickblade talking about RL wrestlers holding shield ...
I would guess that the benefit to wrestle without parry would be the ability to disarm your opponent. If you can disarm them parry ends up kinda pointless. That frees up skill points to use for inscribe or poison and frees up stat points from dex. This is what I did with my wrestle Mage ... His 120 parry is on a stone and I like it fine.
Right but what I'm saying is that your defense is the same your better off going nox scribe over wrestle/scribe wrestle/nox
It's a template setup to have a good chance vs ANY opponent. I'm also not a fan of having a skill that's 100% Defense (Parry) Though I guess the case could be made that Reactive Paralyze is offensive, but only if an opponent is trying to hit you. 45% Hci with a touch of SSI (5% Ranger Cloak) Makes for a nice Disarm / Stun mage coupled with GM poison I like it very much. Try fighting a Disarm Archer rocking a good splintering weapon in the Arena on a Mage weapon character lol... Don't get me wrong I can definately see the benefits of a parry mage, but a lot of that is the new MODS that are mostly available on just sheilds. I agree that a 35% block chance makes it way easier to get up a combo to dump a dexxer, but 100% chance to do it with them disarmed is even better. I'm honestly looking at Mage Weapon Scribe / Parry Reforge possibilites atm but it's mostly coming down to what Crazy legendary Arty's I can get ahold of heh.
TBH it's been pointless to have any weapon skill on any mage since Pub 46... it's still Almost completely pointless, the only exception is because of how good Poisoning is, without DP who would have a weapon skill? Parry/wrestle & on rare occasion a Thrower/mage? that's it.
Clockwork Leggings should have had the +5 Dex count towards imbuing weight and the +25 DCI & +5 stam regen should have been free mods. with resists lower (Legs = 15 total) than the AoF (AoF = 16 total), these legs are worse than leggings of bane which aren't used almost at all anymore... who cares if mages used these legs, every pvp mage is already 70+ dci anyway.
Except for the fact that if you get Disarmed as a -Mage Wep user, you're an AI magnet. Ever see what happens to a -Mage Wep user when they get Disarmed by a Warrior with several Archers/Throwers around in a group fight? They get "Wtf!?" dropped by AIs the instant after they get Disarmed. You can Disarm the spellbook out of a Wrestle Mage's hands, but he still won't be any easier to hit, and he can Disarm you right back.
I'm not saying that I'm saying wrestle compared to -Mage gives a base defense..as melee and Mage wep have the same pros to defending I never mentioned being disarmed what I was saying is that your giving up damage with your weapon damage with hit spell for combos for disarm/para and not being disarmable which you may prefer I donot I was stating what I felt is better for a field damage type Mage not a defense parry survivability Mage if that's what u want parry/scribe/wrestle is the way to go for damage output your better off -Mage scribe/nox sorry for the misunderstanding
To me the Inquisitor Resolution is a little better or equivalent to the Bracers till the day they will make the fireball more useful in a template specially with a shield at least, lets compare:
