[nenelan]

Oh god I hated early era bards. Your DPS was crap with just that weapon in the offhand! :( I remember using sub-par instrument modifiers just because there were a very, very rare few that fit in offhand.

Rangers, rogues, and even monks and bards can use some shields in current state of affairs on EQ, however, it makes no practical sense for them to. The only time I've ever known my ranger friend to use a shield is if A) the tank is being useless or B) he is updating his eqplayers ranking (AC battles).

While it would be nice to have it as variety, would it be possible to weight it so that a shield popped in those classes' offhand ~ 15% of the time or something suitably small? I just have a hard time picturing any self respecting rogue use a shield. Would be a mockery at the safe house! :-P

Checking the weapon list. Can add 2hb for beastlords, as they were added to most of the monk ones.
Shamans can have 2hp removed, there is VERY few that are shaman usable, I can think of only one off the top of my head.
Rangers can use 2hp as well. Most of the current 2hps are War/SK/Ber/Pal/Rng. Not sure how viable/often they use two handers, but they can.
Druids: Traditionally the only slashers they used were scimitars (and that one war claw), however, there is no way of limiting that through the plugin. Afterall, how is the script to know if the blade is curved?