Start players with Shield skill

In case they don't want to play your way, and would like to immediately start leveling a mace shield combo.

Playing Blood River right now, don't know if other paths get shield, but honestly they all should. Let those in Love path start with a sword/shield if they want.

 

Thought love path was for the bow? Why would then I want a sword and a shield?

 

Right now if you want a quality experience you should start on the Love path.

But you can easily pick up a mace and a shield on the first bridge and start whacking, instead of being stuck with a bow.

Unfortunately since they put players into the "bow" class, you can't start leveling that shield skill until you get into the outskirts.

 

ah ok

 

Agreed. I would like to have that option from the beginning to choose even Polearm. Not completely sure why a 'path' has pre-determined weapons anyway. The Oracle should just decide our starting path and leave the starting weapons to us.

 

When the game went persistance I went the "bow" path specifically BECAUSE I wanted to start as a meelee person, because the subterfuge skill 'distract' was already levelled up and I could train dexterity straight away. I figured that levelling my meelee skills was easier than starting with meelee skills and levelling this one particular skill.

 

Exactly. Classless game, puts you in a class right out the door. My buddy Lightiger IMMIDIATELY told me his character class when he started the game recently. So I guess we have character classes, at least it looks like that to the noobs.

Clever.