As I quest reward, I received a decent dagger.  Rather than use it for a toothpick, as I usually do with daggers, I decided to train that skill up.  I ran around Maraudon killing and noticed that I missed just as often with Shield Bash as I did with the dagger.  As my dagger skill increased, my SB and dagger miss rate reduced.  I see no reason why my ability to crack something over the head with my shield should be related to my ability to use a weapon.

Have any other classes noticed similar behavior?  I'm certain that if I asked Bliz, I would get the standard "Working as intended" response.

Yes even with my shaman, everybody says maces are the way to go. But I started using Hypnotic blade for a couple levels, it actually served me right. I killed faster and more efficiently. There are some sweet daggers out there, and in certain situations different weapons are better.

It is because they either decided to not bother making a "Shield" skill which I think they should have or couldn't find a good way to implement the shield skill. If they did they would have to lower the shields functionality if under leveled and probably make it a little bit better if someone had it at lvl 300 for instance. Im not sure if it would be a good thing or not.

Here I thought this topic was about me.

Same here, except replace "me" with "you".

EDIT: Do orcs actually use daggers as toothpicks, or was that a joke?

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Same here, except replace "me" with "you".

EDIT: Do orcs actually use daggers as toothpicks, or was that a joke?
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Hahaha.. cool.