Quick question about shield stability
Hi guys, I've had DS since release day, lent it to a friend after finishing it a couple times and only just got it back, and something has been bothering me a bunch since the very start. People here talk about shields like the Hollow Soldier's having over 80 stability when upgraded, but I check out all the wiki's and the shield has 70 stability maximum. I have no idea what is going on and why the numbers are so different. Are the wiki's wrong?
Posted Aug 22, 2012, 9:49 AM UTC · edited
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The hollow soldier shield has about 70 max stability. 80 is almost the max of all shields.
That's what the wiki says, but then there's threads like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comments/lswaw/best_shield_in_the_game/
Now that's from 9 months ago, did they nerf shield stability or something? Although I kinda remember even when I was playing near release I was having some issues with getting good numbers of shield stabilities.
EDIT: Oh shit, I just checked the patch notes and the medium shields were indeed nerfed. I distinctly remember my +5 Silver Knights Shield having like 84 stability too. Seems like I found the answer to my confusion.
I remember when the Hollow Shield got patched. Before 1.05 a lot of people complained about how they got the best shield in the game in the first 20 minutes of gameplay, so it was nerfed.
Yeah, at 80+ stability it is too damn good. Same goes for the Silver Knights Shield, from memory, pre 1.05 I was looking at start sheets and wondering to myself why anyone would ever use anything but the SKS. Parry, 80+ stab and it looked really cool. Of course to upgrade you needed twinkling titanite, which back then required farming clams for hours on end.
The first character I loaded up when I got DS back was wearing +4 on all parts of the Dark Knight set and down at the bonfire in Ash Lake, thank goodness I don't need to keep farming clams to get the pieces up to +5.
thats all wrong/patched. it can't be right because the great shields give huge stability as a trade off for lack of shield, if a hollow s shield gave 80, who woud use greatshields?