Shields, Gladiators, and Enchants

This is probably the most underwhelmed I've been at league start ever from just an acendency design perspective. League is cool.

Shields not getting more bases, leaving emperor's vigilance in a severe dominating position with the quality changes, "melee weapon" focused buff system like tinctures and reworked mechanics, and shouts are also built around weapon attacks.

To top it all off, Gladiator's rework seemed crazy and insane and then we get to see how new shield mods work and it's like my whole ascendency is just 1 shield prefix, free pops, and conditional lucky block.

And then you're like, "ok, so shields are just a weapon anyways no wonder we didn't get new bases" and then you don't get shield enchants 😐. So many cool but missed opportunities on this one, even just allowing shields to take from existing enchants instead of just dual wielding, which glad seems to benefit more from anyways.