User blog comment:Thousand Troops/Balancing the Assassin Vocation/@comment-5545868-20121015232346

I agree with this 100% I personally want the shield gone from the Assassins arsenal. Or at the very least allow us to use Magick Shields one handed like uhhhh ALL Mystic Knight NPC's, I mean Julien uses it one handed, Skeleton Lords, hell even the idiotic Gran Soren guards in the Blighted Manse use it one handed and thats just ridiculous. To balance that out they could use up more stamina per block, and if you use Holy Fortress since you can one hand the shield make Holy Fortress consume stamina if youre blocking and you should only be able to one hand it at a specific height as both Julien and Skeleton Lords are fairly tall I think around 6ft in game, but I can see how it might be game breaking to allow us MK's one handed shield usage. But I digress, the Assassin and Mystic Knight could use a bit of tweaking and balancing. But they're both great classes either way.