I'm confused with Dragon's Roost

[Domenico]

Does it decrease the strenght of physical attack of Arisen by 30% or decrease the one from the foes?

[Striker]

It weakens the physical attack resistance of the monster. To what % is debatable.

[zadymek]

Originally posted by Domenico:

Does it decrease the strenght of physical attack of Arisen by 30% or decrease the one from the foes?

It inflicts Strength Lowered debilitation to enemies just like Succubus bite to you. And now guess what is weakened when the enemy has its Strength negatively affected ;)

[Domenico]

I've heard on forums that this lowered strength is useless for a normal fighter because, before it activates, you have killed already the enemy

[zadymek]

Originally posted by Domenico:

I've heard on forums that this lowered strength is useless for a normal fighter because, before it activates, you have killed already the enemy

It really depends on enemy (some enemies take more hits y know), and your playstyle.
I mean, in a game that is all about not getting hit lowering enemy damage seems less important. But if you go into exchanging hits with something bigger then why not.

Just bear in mind that if you already have no problems inflicting Strength Lowered with this shield, that is via Perfect Blocking (Deflect)...why not simply Perfect Block all hits? ;)

Now, equipping the shield on a Pawn is a completely different thing.

[Crusader]

Originally posted by zadymek:

Originally posted by Domenico:

I've heard on forums that this lowered strength is useless for a normal fighter because, before it activates, you have killed already the enemy

It really depends on enemy (some enemies take more hits y know), and your playstyle.
I mean, in a game that is all about not getting hit lowering enemy damage seems less important. But if you go into exchanging hits with something bigger then why not.

Just bear in mind that if you already have no problems inflicting Strength Lowered with this shield, that is via Perfect Blocking (Deflect)...why not simply Perfect Block all hits? ;)

Now, equipping the shield on a Pawn is a completely different thing.

You can’t perfect block everything regardless of KD / Stagger power and it’s not so easy not getting hit when you’re a solo fighter and you’re fighting 2 firedrakes at the same time.

Lowered strength can be useful occassionally, it’s nothing to cream your pants over but it’s fine.

The main advantage of dragon’s roost is that it has the second highest KD / Stagger power out of any shield in the game (the higher this stat on a shield, the stronger the attack you can perfect block) and it can be obtained right at the start of the game (though at the cost of a stamina penalty until level 46). The lowered strength debuff is just a bonus.

I’d actually recommend this on fighter pawns right at the start of the game. Sure they’ll lose stamina rapidly, but who cares they’ll be a perfect block machine if you remove their shield skills.

Also, if you’re a fighter, comboing this shield with steel will will make eliminators / elder ogres trivial, as they won’t be able to damage you at all as you hack away at them. Just watch for their grab / pound attack, it’s hard to escape from without eggression.

[Domenico]

Thanks for info. The main thing I want to say is that I, I think, in my 130 hours (I'm on level 77), that I never stagged an enemy. So I asked if this shield would be useful for me, since I've found for now 1 Moonbeam Gem and would use it to get Dragon's Glaze for my main pawn, which is a Ranger

[zadymek]

Originally posted by The Butterlord:

The main advantage of dragon’s roost is that it has the second highest KD / Stagger power out of any shield in the game (the higher this stat on a shield, the stronger the attack you can perfect block) and it can be obtained right at the start of the game (though at the cost of a stamina penalty until level 46). The lowered strength debuff is just a bonus.

Huh? It's the first time that I read about stagger/knockdown power not meaning stagger/knockdown power of your attacks. Idk where did you get that from but I'll gladly check it. I mean, learning the details of this hidden value of blocking ability should prove to be useful.

Also: I'm not sure if Stamina penalty applies to pawns at all. At least the game doesn't seem to care about equipping a Pawn with weapon with requirement above its level.

[Crusader]

Looks like I was wrong about the KD / stagger effecting PB ability. I always assumed this to be the case because when I upgraded one of my magic shields past dragonforge I still couldn’t block certain attacks. But with another one that had more KD power, I could.

So I guess it just depends on the rarity of the shield / quality of the shield due to some weird magic hidden stat? That’s terrible design as much as I like this game.

Regardless, dragon’s roost can perfect block most attacks in this game.