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Originally Posted by Wandering Soul
Even If it is underwhelming a game, they show at least suspect the role will be important if they had a legendary hero take up the role.
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Some possibilities:
The game the others have played is badly unbalanced and the Shield Hero is a schlub role by accident or even design. Don't assume the game is the same as something we might have played where tanks and shield-carriers are an important part of a party's balance.
Another possibility is the social world around the game, the comments and blogs by players and twitchers might well have downgraded expectations of anyone playing as a Shield Hero and since hardly anyone plays it with any enthusiasm that makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The third possibility is that the Shield Hero "route" is the toughest one to level-up (see Naofumi's complaints about trying to gain EXP with no offensive capabilities) but it results in a powerful character after the grinding is done however no-one's found this out in the game because it's hard unglamorous work -- see my previous point.