User blog:Psychopski/Mystic Knight: Potentially awesome class, but what's with the shield not being held in the off hand??

After reading the class description, I was really excited about this class.

-Heavy Armor... that's for me!

-Equips Shield.. I've tanked in a lot of MMOs, but a tank that's also a caster, yummy!

-Uses the Mace.. ownage! Nothing better than inflicting crushing damage, blunt force trauma onto your enemies!

So I reach level 10 on my Warrior, and change Vocations over to Mystic Knight. Equip my awesome looking MK shield and mace. But... um.... wait a minute. This shield must be bugged. It's on my characters back, he's not holding it in his offhand. Ummm, must be this shield, it's just bugged. I switch to another shield. Same outcome. Oh wait! There we go... I'm actively blocking and now it's working. "stops active blocking". The shield goes back... on my back. WTF! What's going on here?!?

I think a big part of playing console fantasy games or MMO's is how "awesome!!" your character looks to you. Everyone's always working towards getting that next great piece of gear to complete their look. MKs in DD have some really awesome looking end game shields and maces. However, the MKs only look really awesome when they're actively blocking. Swinging around that huge mace just looks dumb without the shield being held in the offhand while attacking.

I hope for Dragon's Dogma 2, CAPCOM rethinks the shield on the back mechanic for Mystic Knights. Personally the shield on the back totally ruins the class for me.