Upgrades

The Vales Shield itself isn't changed, but Shield Mastery categorizes shields into three categories. Small Shields (Round Shields, COmposite, Etc), Light Shields (Kite, Avon, Demonic), and Heavy Shield (ONLY vales shield, which is Giant-only). The difference from Light to heavy is more significant than the base stats of vales to demonic or avon. So ya, what shield mastery varies depending on the shield, but generally it gives defense, magic defense, protection, magic protection, and MAYBE a bit of autodefense, I don't remember.

Yea, making vales shield the only heavy shield makes no sense. Pretty much a slap in the face to elves/humans no matter which way you look at it. I would think demonic shield would be heavy shield also. But NA might be different from other servers. We'll just have to wait and see.