I'd like to suggest, and if a knight VCR could take it to the devs (I don't know who they are), a tweak regarding knights defense overall.
Right now, the biggest source of defense is the armor set, the shield pales in comparison to them.
That is reason enough to, sometimes, if you are the refiner type, leave the shield unrefined cause the bonus won't be as tempting as the armor pieces.
To make knights more unique on this department, I'd like to suggest removing some percentage from all 5 armor pieces and tossing the result onto the shield.
That would not only make life easier for short on money players (you would opt to refine the shield for a decent, but not as good, ammount of bonus defense instead of the whole set), it would still make the final overall defense on a fully refined set the same (and I believe real spenders won't stop refining the whole armor set, so that would, maybe, be a win/win situation financially speaking?).
So, the hypothetical case would be like:
- 1500 defense x 5 for armor pieces = 7500 defense
- 500 defense x 1 on shield
- Total = 8000 defense
If you take away, say, 20% of that defense from each piece of armor and toss them onto the shield, the result would be:
- 7500 (-20%) = 7500 - 1500 = 6000 defense on armor pieces
- 500 + 1500 (20% taken out from armor set) = 2000 defense on shield
- Total = 8000 defense
So yea, I don't have high hopes of this actually happening but it's a suggestion nonetheless.
Cheers.