Shields.... -5/20 > All.

Whats up with -5/20 being the PERFECT SHIELD MOD. Anytime someones selling a shield, or buying one, they always want a -5/20 on it. The other day, while in GToB, I saw someone trading a torme shield STR, for a tacticts req one. He was there for several hours so I finally traded him, and when i put mine in trade (mine was +30, armor+10vs. lightning) he responded LOL F*KING NOOOB, NO -5/20 NO DEAL. And I'm like... dude, if this is for PvP, or EVEN PvE, you go with armor+10vs. X, not -5/20. He than says "LOLWUT IM R9 GLAD, R10 HERO, R6 COMMANDER, UR NOTHING!!!! NOOOB STF^" I'm like... wow, guess I never thought -5/20 was that leet. WEll, discuss, why does evyone think that -5/20 is so great?

wammos prefer -5/20, most warriors are wammos.

Same reason Sundering is the "Perfect" weapon mod...it looks the best, nothing more.

Because the number 20 looks better than the number 10?

People are bad.

i have no problem with people liking the -5/20, even though it sucks.

why?

because i have no personal use for it, but i can sell it for about 10k pretty easily. why complain? take advantage of the situation...

I have no clue about why -5/20% is so overrated either, Although I've got it on alot of my shields, I rather use -2/stance(Warrior). And ... + I would never use a +10 vs lightning It's all my opinion... please convince me to take -5/20% if I am totally wrong (Also, do not blame me on my English, grammar may suck :P

people are lazy (bad) and it's the coolest looking !!!1

Because I don't have enough weapon sets for an "armor +10 vs. each element" to make it feasible to keep swapping, so I kind of just keep the all-purpose one up. It still works nice, but it's not THE BEST ALL THE TIME. It's kind of just the mid-range one that isn't bad, but isn't good.

5 > 2

And that's all people see.

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My paragon used to run it because those boss Invoke Lightnings hurt my boo-boo ...

A warrior's basic armour level is 80+20vs physical = 100 armour vs. physical. Why then does -5 damage from 1 in 5 random physical hits sound good to people? -Blind, -Crippled or +10 vs. an element will make a bigger difference.

Then again, the wammo culture like 20/20 mods on swords.

People are stupid and don't understand that +10ar >> -5 PHYSICAL dmg 1 in 5 hits. It should be pretty obvious which is better.. but.. apparently it isn't for the majority of players.

Same reason that everyone likes 20/20 sundering. Bigger numbers=better. Its not something horrible if you want something thats just generally usable, but not ideal for any situation. Having a shield vs each element would be rather useless vs a mob that is only doing physical damage, and using vs species shields would require a massive collection of shields. The -5/20% is just seen as the "always works" mod, although -2 stanced(depending on build) or enchanted (if you have a prot monk around) would be better for that situation.

If you want DPS, Vamp is better. Sundering for spikes, but that's PvP.

You know there are shield mods +10AL versus physical damage too, right?

People hate changing their shields for the same reason people are shitting breaks over the Ursan nerf.

THEY ARE LAZY AND HATE ADAPTING

+10vsCold is clearly the best, the only thing that scares me is a certain Panda with a very scary Icy Charr Axe.

No there aren't.
Closest thing would be "Survival of the Fittest" +1...5 Armor vs Physical Damage but is for off-hands only.

And in PvE someone can't be arsed having 7 slots of different shields so -5/20 is the easiest.

In PvP you don't need your inventory empty so it's best to take a shield for every elemental/physical damage.

Yeah but that physical damage is relegated to piercing, slashing or blunt. So you'll pretty much want to know if you're going up against a bunch of rangers, hammer warriors, or slashers. +10 vs blunt is awesome for farming elementals though. +10 vs slashing good for raptor farming, etc.

Alexandra: read what I just typed. Also, I run 6 different shields in PvE. I also run 6 different melee weapons. That leaves me with the backpack, belt pouch and one bag free. I also may have a GWEN rep book, some CCs and other consumables that I feel like taking along, and a bow for pulling. I never run out of space because I SALVAGE for materials. You'd be amazed at how many weapons salvage into granite.