So now that I'm back I've been slowly going through each character one at a time. Now that I've got the monk settled and have a basic understanding I'm trying to figure out my dwarf.

Sorting through how the shield, weapon and armor stuff works now.


I was really loving Shield Charge before and I noted I have Shield Bash, but it looks like it works in a similar way to Shield Charge. Should I drop it? Here are the current shield abilities I've got.

Block the Elements	blockelements	1/3
Protective Wall	pwall	2/2
Shield Bash	bash	2/5
Shield Charge	charge	5/5
Tower Shield Focus	tfocus	4/5

These are the current weapon abilities.

Clobber	clobber	3/5	Blunt Weapons
Dizzying Swing	dizzyingswing	3/5	Blunt Weapons
Pulverize	pulverize	1/5	Blunt Weapons
Pummel	pummel	2/5	Blunt Weapons

And these are my current CMANs.

Cunning Defense	cdefense	4/5
Feint	feint	3/5	Warrior Guild
Surge of Strength	surge	2/5

Hopefully the tables lay out correctly. He's 40th CoL currently and a ohe/tower shield dwarf in full hauberk currently. I'm just trying to figure out which abilities are redundant and I won't really be using. So I could use those points elsewhere.

Any advice would be appreciated. I now Surge is probably a waste and I'll get rid of those to put elsewhere on the Cmans. Since our stamina really is in constant use and surge just sucks it out. lol.

Thanks CURBY for the reply and information. Yep I like using shield charge because as a dwarf I can't hit the head until I knock em down. So I'll charge em with the shield (also the visual in my head of my dwarf leaning into his shield and charging into a giant amuses me) and then I tend to ambush head. I used to use feint but haven't been doing much of that since returning. Though critter dependant I can see still using it. Still evolving my tactics since returning. :)

"also the visual in my head of my dwarf leaning into his shield and charging into a giant amuses me" -- Celtar the IL

When my (mind you: gnome) Monk was up on Aenatumgana, it amused me to no end when I would put the finishing touch on a mammoth with a punch.
I never quite narrowed down which got to me more: smacking it in the snoot from the front and seeing it collapse to its knees, or bashing it in the ribs from the side and watching it topple.

see the bowling ball

feel the bowling ball

Be the bowling ball.

brought to you by,

---cman bullrush

>good for crowd control<

Hehe. Exactly. Clunk, ever wise and ever to the point.

@Krakii Love the imagine of your gnome ping-ponging off of mammoths. lol. Ricochet Rabbit. heh