Talk:Shield of Achilles/@comment-4972407-20140716113522/@comment-17760674-20140717013600

Aegis was so long ago, though xD Doesn't really show current trends that well. And while a lot of us got to 200F in the anniversary tower, not everyone did, so I would imagine that Aegis slipped a lot of our minds.

Hortense's shield is awfully prominent, and the other thing she's holding looks more like a scepter or a staff or something of the like. Sure, she's a fighter, but I somehow don't think that fancy scepters are preferable weapons to, say, swords.

Unless her scepter is super durable and/or has a really sharp edge and Hortense herself is super badass and likes to flaunt it.

... but yeah, I think Hortense was one of the daemons that really made everyone headdesk and start looking for other item-skill mismatches xD Stuff that's out of the ordinary tends to grab everyone's attention more than stuff in the ordinary; I think we only noticed Shield of Achilles being in the ordinary because we've finally noticed enough item-skill mismatches to start actively looking for item-skill not-mismatches.

(I also find it strange that Labrys wields a double ax while being a defender [I think axes are usually intended to hurt people rather than prevent the wielder from being hurt], but I digress.)