a bug related to fortify and glacial shield swipe

glacial shield swipe supported by fortify cannot gain fortification while wielding a wand, i know a wand isn't a melee weapon, but the glacial shield swipe is melee attack, and it can be used while welding a wand, because its the shield that is attacking, not the wand.

yeah, probably isn't wanted that a player using a wand can easily get fortification, but the shield damage scales with evasion/armour, so, the player still needs to invest a lot on this to do damage and scale the fortification effect.

So, in my opinion if this is intended. Why let the player use glacial shield swipe while wielding a non melee weapon after all? there is no sense in letting the player support fortify in glacial shield swipe in that case, or at least give some clarification on fortify or glacial shield swipe description.

This is just a bug. Your weapon type shouldn't matter for getting fortification stacks. It uses off hand damage, like other shield skills.

It's no different than trying to get Fortification stacks by using Shield Charge on bosses. It's based on threshold of the enemy you were hitting so if you tested with a 2L with Malachai's Loop and against a pinnacle boss, I wouldn't be surprised if not enough damage to gain a stack. The scaling for Swipe is based on armor/eva on the shield, which Loop has none.

If testing was in campaign and still not gaining stacks, then include bug report number. If it still gains stacks in campaign, then there is nothing wrong with Swipe and you're wanting a change to Fortification. But that was changed that way years ago because it was too easy to get for non-melee builds when it was designed for melee builds (hence the melee tag on the support).

Can confirm, 20 stacks while unarmed, 0 stacks after you equip a wand with no relevant stats.

bug ref # 1.877.132.128