Good idea to make Shield Charge Scale with Shield Armour / Evasion value?

Would be nice to scale "shield charge" with something other than weapon damage. You guys think it's a good idea to scale the damage off a combo of shield armour/evasion roll + weapon damage? Would be a cool new mechanic and give reason to equip rare shields with high armour and evasion rolls again.

Maybe I'm just bais because I crafted this...

My problem with SC is that it is based on your base attack dmg, and that you have to have a melee weapon (on top of a shield) in order to use it, so no wand - even if u have a shield, which is counterintuitive.
It should imho scale its damage on the shield only, the "bigger" the shield the higher the dmg ( e.g. a wall shield's hit hurts more than a buckler's) not on your weapon, and then it could be balanced based on that. AR/EV/ES values on the shield would all be taken into consideration (with different multipliers) as well as other stats ....

I have mixed feelings about Shield Charge. On the one hand, I do like quirky and unique things, so a skill that scales off of your shield instead of your weapon would be pretty cool. On the other hand, the gem then becomes 100% screwed for Facebreaker/Doryani's Fist builds.

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CaptainWARLORD a écrit :

It scales with attack damage, physical or elemental damage (based on what damage you deal), area damage, movement skill damage, generic damage, minion damage if used with The Scourge, Spell damage when used with Crown of Eyes...

...and you want even more scaling? What? You do know that Shield Charge damage is so high they had to nerf it, yes?[/img]

I think (I hope) he means more like 'instead of', or 'take some dmg scaling away, and transition it to AR/EV scaling'. Operating under that assumption, yes, that's a fine and fun and thematically appropriate idea. There is a problem cloud that floats over any idea that involves scaling your offense off of your defense, namely that there is a sheer tipping point between 'useless' and 'overpowered'. See: Vaal Pact