(02-04-2015, 04:28 PM)Apl_Juice Wrote: I'm curious though, for those of you folks who fight with armor: how would you handle being shot at? Is that something you could block with a shield? Does you armor save you, or do the bullets pierce through?
In my own headcanon, I think that since the Ala Mhigans have been engaging in skirmishes with the Garleans for the past 20 years trying to take their home back, that they would've developed a thicker plate or shield to attempt to deflect Garlean bullets. So when I wrote the backstory bit on Sounsyy fighting at Carteneau, her shield was able to deflect some stray bullets, while others less fortunate fell to the Garlean barrage.
If another RPer shot at me with a rifle, Garlean or Lominsan, I think I'd most likely eat the bullet. Lemme be honest, Sounsyy's armor, which is mostly leather with a simple but thick breastplate, is not gonna stop a bullet, unless it hit her breastplate at a really soft angle and ricocheted off? If Sounsyy had her shield up and she was ducked behind it, the bullet would either glance off - damaging the shield - or pierce right through. Even if her shield did successfully stop a bullet, that's some insane blunt force traveling through her shield and into her arm...
That's how I'd play it anyways, but to each their own. My character isn't badass enough to dodge a bullet. Or even catch a bullet. Survive a bullet - sure! Unless, you know, mortal wound.
