>>714789084
>This game is designed around rolling initiative first and nuking everyone on the screen before it gets a chance to act and do the same to you. Tanks are not useful at all, and the shield doesn't make them survive long either.
While I agree the game is about alpha strike, i find shields very useful on Unfair since u can just switch to 2h, do dmg, switch back, use the shield attack thing that puts you on 50% block or so. And being able to block melee attack that would do 40-60% of your hp otherwise even with high armor/deflection is huge

Abelards survivability skyrocketed with it