Quote Originally Posted by Cieyrin View Post
Not seeing the appeal of Animated for a Shield Basher, since Improved Shield Bash gives you the AC bonus regardless of whether you smack somebody in the gob with it or not. If you're a dedicated Shield Basher, you actually use it for applying effects and whatnot as well, so it seems like money thrown away when you could be making it Bashing and enchanting it as a secondary weapon for knocking people on their ass and dazing them.
I agree with Cieyrin on this. If you took the Shield slam and charge feats and so forth. Wouldn't you give that up or have wasted feats if you always tell your heavy steel shield to go animated and float around you? Or can you magically tell your shield to bash still?? O.o lol .