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It's a matter of balance. Obviously making shields on-par with dual wielding in terms of DPS would be faulty. A nominal DPS effect is in order, not equal to sporting an EF for example, in that off-hand slot. Remember, weapons will be getting a buff, likely a huge buff. Shields should follow suite as they are woeful in most respects.

What I'm saying is ...find a way to make shields embellish your DPS to a point where people know they're going to lose some DPS over dual wielding, yet, the prospects of innovative procs and survivability lures them to face a hard choice in gears.

I want to point out that a lack of significant death penalty is part of the problem. Having these Elite packs regenerate health if someone dies would be a great incentive not to die.

The bold part a million times over. There literally is zero incentive not to die in the game. Be it regeneration of monster health or losing 15% of your experience in that level on death (I'm all for deleveling too, but I am sure players would be dissatisfied at at 15% exp loss let alone possibly losing a level). I can't tell you how many streamers I see just going balls to the wall on MP 10, barely paying attention to what they are doing, they die and they either banner to their friends or just run back to where they were like nothing ever happened.

I partially think that it is a fault of the MP system and how it was designed to just scale monster HP/damage - but that discussion is probably for another thread.