How damage works with a shield?

Grim Dawn Gameplay Discussion
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Hi,

The damage of the shield adds to the damage of the weapon?

And the life steal?

And mark of dreeg?

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2

i think its only used with certain skills, like blitz

3

Correct.

Shield damage and special effects are never added to the mainhand % weapon damage source.

4

As far as i’m aware:

1 - Used by skills like Blitz that also use your Shield for damage.

2 - Flat damage that is added to your weapon.

5

so what the point to add steal life on a shield?

6

It’ll be used by anything that utilizes your offhand damage.

Nope, both are only used by things like Blitz.

7

Ah, my mistake then, good to know :D.

8

Pretty sure the 29 vitality dmg are added to your mainhand.

9

Nope, Ceno is correct. This is actually very easy to test.

What surprises me is that a skill such as Amarasta’s Blade Burst specifically says it does “off-hand” damage but as soon as you equip a shield the skill attacks with “main-hand” only. I suppose it’s to stop people equipping a caster off-hand and bitch slapping enemies with a book but I wouldn’t mind having ABB be an alternative shield skill.

On another note I hope there’s more item granted shield skills in the expansion. I wouldn’t mind a new relic that grants an automatic shield proc similar to “Oleron’s Wrath” or an item/devotion that grants a few shield procs. Or even some new components that does this. The current legendary shield’s all deal “main-hand” damage from their procs

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What surprises me is that a skill such as Amarasta’s Blade Burst specifically says it does “off-hand” damage but as soon as you equip a shield the skill attacks with “main-hand” only.

I believe this is a relic from when ABB required an actual off-hand weapon to use the skill, hence the wording. That requirement has obviously since been lifted, but I guess now you can run into situations like the one you’ve described.

I’d also like to see some more shield skills though. I miss batter from TQ, smacking things with a shield is immensely satisfying. Shield Slam and Brutal Shield Slam through battered/serrated shell in GD are great whilst levelling, but sadly drop off in viability fairly quickly.

11

My one and only dream.