Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1031179-20161109052033/@comment-1031179-20161109190123

Thinking about it. It says in the Progressive books, during Kirito's duel with that guy outside the forest elf camp, shields only block if you time it right and hit them against the incoming weapon. Higher skill in it, the stronger the attack you could block perhaps.

And when they were chasing butterflies, they had to use stones to throw since they had no throwing skill. So they couldn't just use throwing weapons, be needing the skill to aim them.

Be able to equip a weapon perhaps, just have a harder time moving it about in your hand perhaps.