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Message: <blockquote data-quote="airwalkrr" data-source="post: 5723816" data-attributes="member: 12460">I have to side with RAW on this one. There is no mention of shields in the evasion ability. Therefore it has no effect on the ability. Interestingly enough, the evasion ability does not mention encumbrance from total weight carried. So apparently there is something special about wearing medium or heavy armor that the designers decided got in the way of evasion that carrying enough to slow you down did not. If there were an argument for an additional restriction on evasion via reading through the lines, I would say the encumbrance argument would be it, not shields. I am not saying I endorse that argument, merely that I would find it a more reasonable one to make as carrying a shield does not technically slow you down (unless it is enough to encumber you), but armor does. I see more of a parallel there with the way evasion is described to work.[totally off-topic]And as an aside, rogues do not carry shields in DDO, at least not for long. A rogue who has a habit of carrying around a shield tends to get blacklisted as an ineffective gimp because offense is so heavily favored over defense in DDO. Most rogues don't even wear armor past level 12 or so since AC becomes almost meaningless in DDO by that point to most rogue characters. And for those rare rogues who do manage a valuable AC, they do not get it by wearing armor and using shields.[/totally off-topic]</blockquote>